Research Interests
Current Project: T2K (Tokai to Kamioka)
T2K
is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan.
The neutrino beam originates at the J-PARC facility and is directed
toward the Super-Kamiokande experiment 295 km away. At CSU we are
working on the Pi Zero detector, which is part of the off-axis near
detector that is located 280 m upstream from the neutrino beam origin.
The primary purpose of T2K is to measure the neutrino mixing angle
theta_13.
Previous Projects:
DZero
is one of the two experiments operating at the Fermilab Tevatron which
is a proton on anti-proton collider operating very near the center-of
mass energy of 2 TeV. Prior to the turning on of the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN, the Tevatron will remain the highest energy particle
physics collider in history. I joined DZero in 2003 and worked on a
variety of projects including a Silicon Track Trigger upgrade, leading
the calorimeter group, and eventually working in the role of Run
Coordinator for the year prior to joining CSU. The Tevatron and
associated experiments were credited with discovering the top quark in
1995 (see figure below) and now the phsyics program is directed
toward discovering the Higgs boson, amoung other things.
ATLAS
is one of the experiments that will operate at the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN in Switzerland. The LHC is a proton-proton collider
that will operate at the center of mass energy of 14 TeV and nearly an
order of magnitude higher instantaneous luminosity than that at the
Tevatron. As a graduate student I worked on the readout
electronics for the liquid argon calorimeters.
During
my time at the University of Albert I also dabbled in early prototype
cosmic shower detectors that were eventually used in the ALTA
experiment. This was a small array of cosmic detectors used primarily
to introduce students in the community to physics research.
Last Updated: April 4, 2008