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Research group phobos |
The SLD project: SLD is a large full-coverage particle physics detector situated at the collison point of the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) in Stanford, California. The SLD collaboration was formed in approximately 1982. After 9 years of design, R+D, and construcion SLD took its first data in 1991.
The purpose of the SLD experiment is to make detailed studies of the decay of Z bosons, which are created when the electrons and positrons accelerated by the SLC collide (at 91 GeV in the center-of-mass). SLD has made substantial contributions to our knowledge of electroweak, heavy quark, and QCD physics. The experiment has made the single most precise measurement of the electroweak mixing angle and has recently produced many inclusive heavy quark results (lifetimes and asymmetries) that are more precise than any comparable measurement. For more information about SLD, check out the collaboration web pages.
Steve Manly joined SLD in 1985 as a graduate student and continued to be heavily involved as a faculty member at Yale along with the SLD co-spokesman, Charlie Baltay. The following graduate students earned Ph.D.'s with the Yale group between 1988 and 1999: Jeff Turk, Ram Ben-David, Jeff Snyder, Sumit Sen, Ming Liu, and Thomas Moore. Most of the work has been in the areas of heavy quark tagging, inclusive vertexing, and particle-antiparticle mixing. The Yale group was involved in the construction of the endcap liquid argon calorimeters (while still at Columbia), endcap Cerenkov ring imaging detectors, and the CCD vertex detector. The SLD activity at Rochester is minimal at the moment because the Phobos experiment is ramping up to take data in late 1999. |
