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Theoretical Work:
- Quark Flavor Physics
- CP Violation in the Kaon system
- B Quark Physics
- Top Quark Physics at future Coliders
Experimental Work:
The High Energy Experimental physics group is engaged in the study of the
fundamental constituents of matter and the laws by which they interact. We
currently participate in major programs at the Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory (Fermilab), near Chicago, and at CERN just outside Geneva,
Switzerland. At Fermilab we use the world's highest energy (1.96 TeV)
proton-antiproton collider to study the fundamental structure of matter. The
detector, called DØ, was built by an international team of scientists, of
which we are active members. The DØ experiment is currently taking data,
and
will accumulate several inverse femtobarns of data by the time the
experiment
ends late in this decade. Our principal research interests are the physics
of
the top quark, whose mass we have measured recently with high precision, as
well as the search for, and eventual discovery of, new phenomena --
such as those arising from supersymmetry, extra dimensions or the leptoquark
hypothesis that are not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
We are also part of one of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
experiments which, when it comes fully on line in 2008, will be
collecting data at what will then be the world's highest energy
accelerator (14 TeV proton-proton collisions). Together with our
colleagues we will commission and take data with the CMS detector, which is
22
meters long, has a diameter of 15 meters, will weigh 12,000 tons, and
operate inside a 4 Tesla magnet. We hope to observe the Higgs particle
and the multitude of phenomena predicted by supersymmetric theories.
The CMS experiment analysis will need enormous quantities of computing.
FSU is participating in developing a GRID system, which will integrate
clusters of computers into a framework, which makes them function as a
single computing unit.
For more information on our experiments:
We also have our hands in organizing conferences, physics schools,..:
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Albert Einstein said:
Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
Niels Bohr said:
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.
Max Born said:
No concealed parameters can be introduced with the help of which the indeterministic description could be transformed into a deterministic one. Hence if a future theory should be deterministic, it cannot be a modification of the present one but must be essentially different. |
