High Energy / Nuclear Physics


CDF Detector

High Energy Physics deals with the nature of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. The past 50 years have witnessed tremendous progress in our understanding of these issues, and a remarkably simple and elegant picture, the so-called standard model, has emerged as a result of intensive experimental and theoretical investigations. Nevertheless, many basic questions remain to be answered.

Why does the universe contain so much more matter than antimatter? What is the origin of mass and electric charge? What is the purpose of the heavier "copies" of the quarks and the leptons that make up most of the matter in our universe? How did each of the four fundamental forces acquire their distinctive characteristics, and to what extent are these forces related?

Exploring these issues requires probing the structure of matter at extremely small distances, and therefore high energies. Consequently, experimental activity focuses on the use of high-energy accelerators to reach extreme conditions, and theoretical approaches lead to frontiers of modern mathematics in attempts to crystalize and unify understanding.

The Department has a long and distinguished history of research in the field of High Energy Physics, which continues to the present.

CDF Detector On the theoretical side, active areas include investigation of the foundations of Quantum Field Theories (Profs. Das, Hagen and Rajeev), the phenomenological application of theory to experiment (Profs. Orr and Rajeev), nonlinear integrable models (Prof. Das) and non-associative algebras (Prof. Okubo).).

On the experimental side, Department faculty currently participate in a broad range of major experimental endeavors that address such fundamental issues as:

The search for the origins of symmetries (and their violations) in nature; the possible existence of new particles such as Higgs bosons and supersymmetric partners of the known fundamental particles; studies of the properties of the heaviest quarks and bosons (top, bottom charm, W, and the Z); searches for dark matter; investigations of neutrino oscillations and neutrino mass; and the substructure of the nucleon.

CDF DetectorD0 DetectorCMS DetectorPhobos DetectorOur experimental programs at hadron colliders include studies of the top quark, and W and Z bosons, and the search for Higgs boson and supersymetric particles at the CDF (Profs. Bodek and McFarland, and Drs. de Barbaro, Budd and Sakumoto) and the D0 (Profs. Demina, Ferbel , Garcia-Bellido and Slattery, and Drs. Ginther and Zielinski) experiments at the proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab; and at the CMS (Profs. Bodek, Demina, Garcia-Bellido, Melissinos and Slattery, and Drs. de Barbaro, Budd, Ginther and Zielinski) experiment at the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Studies of quark-gluon plasma as a model for conditions in the early universe have been conducted at the PHOBOS (Profs. Manly and Wolfs) experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

Cleo EventBES II DetectorILCOur experimental programs at electron-positron colliders includes studies of the properties of the bottom and charm quakrs and properties of the tau lepton at the CLEO (Prof. Thorndike) experiment at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, and at the BES III (Prof. Thorndike) experiment at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China; investigation of physics possibilities at Next International Electron-Positron Linear Collider (ILC) (Profs. Manly and Orr); and the development of electron beams for future linear accelerators (Prof. Melissinos).

Neutrino Event

MINERvA Detector

Hall C, HMS Detector

T2K

Our previous high energy neutrino experimental effort with the NuTeV (Profs. Bodek, and McFarland, and Drs. de Barbaro, Budd and Sakumoto) detector at Fermilab has shifted to lower energies, and is now focussed on investigation of neutrino quasielastic, inelastic and resonance production on nuclear targets with the MINERVA (Profs. Bodek, Manly, and McFarland, and Drs. de Barbaro, Budd and Sakumoto) detector at the NUMI beam at Fermilab. A complementary effort is the investigation of electron quasielastic, inelastic and resonance production on nuclear targets with the JUPITER (Profs. Bodek, Manly, and McFarland, and Drs. de Barbaro, Budd and Sakumoto) experiment at Hall C at the Jefferson Laboratory. These data provide a detailed understanding of neutrino-nucleon interactions for neutrino oscillations experiments. The Rochester neutrino group is involved in the construction of the near neutrino detector for the T2K neutrino oscillations experiment at the Japanese Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC).

dark matter

gravitational waves

Our experimental program in Particle Astrophysics includes searches for dark matter using liquid xenon detectors with the Zeplin detector (Prof. Ferbel, Schroeder and Wolfs) at the Boulby mine, and with the new proposed Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment at the DUSEL underground Laboratory at Homestake; and searches for gravitational waves at high frequency with the LIGO (Prof. Melissinos) gravitational wave detector detector.

Our ongoing research in detector development includes scintillation, calorimetric and silicon detectors (Profs. Bodek, Demina, McFarland and Wolfs).

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Daniel J. Ambrose

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 369
(585) 273-5286

Burton A. Betchart

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 362
(585) 275-8620

Matthew M. Bishara

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 358
(585) 275-8618

Arie Bodek

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George E. Pake Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 354
(585) 275-5445

John R. Boersma

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Assistant Professor (part time)
Bausch & Lomb 206
(585) 275-4351

Howard S. Budd

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Senior Scientist and Senior Laboratory Engineer
Fermilab MS 318
(630) 840-8616

Cesar Castromonte

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Research Associate
Particle Physics Experimental
Fermilab MS 220
(630) 840-2559

YeonSei Chung

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Fermilab MS 318
(630) 840-8714
Scientist
Experimental High Energy

Jesse J. Chvojka

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High Energy Physics
Fermilab MS 220
(630) 840-3500

Roberto Covarelli

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Research Associate
Particle Physics Experimental
CERN
(+41) 22 767 7897

Ashok Das

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 359
(585) 275-2955

Melanie A. Day

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 259
(585) 275-4578

Pawel de Barbaro

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Senior Scientist and Senior Laboratory Engineer
CERN (Cell)
(+41) 76 48 73464

Regina Demina

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 367
(585) 275-7357

Yossof Eshaq

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High Energy Physics
CERN
(+41) 22 76 74490

Thomas Ferbel

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Professor of Physics
Visiting Prof. University of Maryland
(585) 275-5306/4344

Tamar Friedmann

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Research Associate
Particle Physics Theory
Bausch & Lomb 361
(585) 275-4370

Aran Garcia-Bellido

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Assistant Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 406
(585) 276-3422

George Ginther

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Senior Scientist
Fermilab MS 357
(630) 840-6337

Pablo Goldenzweig

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Research Associate
Experimental Particle Physics
CERN
(+41) 22 76 74490

Levi L. Greenwood

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 362
(585) 275-8620

Carl R. Hagen

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 356
(585) 275-4380

Jiyeon Han

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Research Associate
High Energy Physics
Fermilab MS 318
(630) 840-2549

Arnab Kar

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Bausch & Lomb 352
(585) 275-8613

Steven L. Manly

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Professor of Physics and Director of Undergraduate Research in the College
Bausch & Lomb 203E
(585) 275-8473

Thomas J. McElmurry

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Research Associate
Particle Physics Theory
Bausch & Lomb 260
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Kevin S. McFarland

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Professor of Physics
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Aaron M. McGowan

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Bausch & Lomb 206
(585) 275-4351
Research Associate
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Adrian C. Melissinos

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 209
(585) 275-2707

Aaron R. Mislivec

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 259
(585) 275-4578

Susumu Okubo

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Professor Emeritus
Bausch & Lomb 251
(585) 275-4388

Lynne H. Orr

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C. E. Kenneth Mees Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 451
(585) 275-8528

Chul Su Park

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Scientist
Experimental High Energy Physics
Cornell University, Wilson Lab
(607) 255-0676

Jaewon Park

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High Energy Physics
Fermilab MS 220
(630) 840-2559

Gabriel N. Perdue

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Research Associate
High Energy Physics
Fermilab MS 220
(630) 840-6499

Gianluca Petrillo

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Research Associate
Particle Physics Experimental
Fermilab MS 352
(630) 840-3554

Sarada G. Rajeev

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 351
(585) 275-4796

Philip A. Rodrigues

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Research Associate
Particle Physics Experimental
Bausch & Lomb 261
(585) 275-8529

Willis K. Sakumoto

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Senior Scientist and Laboratory Engineer
Fermilab MS 318
(630) 840-8431

Wojtek Skulski

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B&L 108
(585) 275-4939
Visiting Scientist

Paul F. Slattery

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 201
(585) 275-6955

Andrew R. Stump

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 358
(585) 275-8618

Edward H. Thorndike

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 370
(585) 275-4382

Yun-Tse Tsai

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High Energy Physics
Fermilab MS 352
(630) 840-8578

Dmitry Vishnevskiy

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 210
(585) 275-4356

Jeremy A. Wolcott

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High Energy Physics
Bausch & Lomb 262
(585) 275-8530

Frank L. H. Wolfs

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Professor of Physics
Bausch & Lomb 203A
(585) 275-4937

Marek A. Zielinski

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Senior Scientist
Fermilab MS 205
(630) 840-2373
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