University%20of%20Chicago%20Experimental%20HEP%20Group%20(NSF%20supported)%20Overview

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University of Chicago Experimental HEP
Group(NSF supported)Overview

• Physics past, present, future
• Training students
• Electronics Development Group
• Service to HEP community
• Support from the university
• M. Shochet

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Faculty

• During past 10 years 7 faculty members
• Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia,
  Pilcher, Shochet, Winstein
• Winstein ? cosmology 2001
• Kim ? Chicago 2003

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History of Chicago NSF group experiments

• Current faculty Winstein (led most experiments)
• Inclusive high?PT particle production _at_ FNAL
• 2 experiments parton scattering
• Observation of KL???? _at_ ZGS
• Serious puzzle solved
• Study of direct ? production _at_ FNAL
• 2 experiments by 2 groups
• Continuum, resonances
• Study of dilepton production in hadron collisions
  _at_ FNAL
• 3 experiments by 2 groups
• Parton scattering PDFs
• Direct CP violation _at_ FNAL
• Series of experiments over gt 2 decades
• Origin of CP many other related measurements
• Early search for ? oscillations _at_ FNAL
• If ?m2 had been really large,

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• Hadronic production of charm _at_ FNAL
• Using prompt muons
• Search for magnetic monopoles
• SQUIDS, scalable to large areas
• Search for ??? atoms in KL decay _at_ FNAL
• Anomalous interactions
• Retired faculty ? particle astrophysics
• Search for ??e? _at_ Los Alamos
• Lepton flavor violation
• Deep inelastic ? scattering _at_ FNAL
• Nucleon structure functions
• High energy air showers
• CASA

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Physics Questions

• What is the source of Electroweak Symmetry
  Breaking?
• W top masses, Higgs searches, top properties
• What is the source of the matter/antimatter
  asymmetry?
• K, ?, (B)
• What is the basic structure of space-time?
• Closely related to force unification
  naturalness
• SUSY, extra dimensions, ?

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Recent Work ATLAS, CDF, KTeV, OPAL

• OPAL
• Detector EM presampler, precision ? detector
• Analysis Higgs searches, precision tests of SM,
  beyond SM searches
• Leadership Physics Run Coordinators, physics
  group conveners

W Mass fermiphobic
Higgs SM Higgs WW?qql?
H??? H???
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• KTeV (NSF)
• Detector CsI calorimeter, trigger, DAQ
• Analysis ??/?, neutral K parameters, form
  factors, Vus
• Leadership spokesperson (2)

f(0)Vus
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• CDF
• Detector level 1 2 triggers, Silicon Vertex
  Trigger (SVT), CEM timing, drift chamber TDC,
  data quality monitor
• Analysis top W properties, new phenomena
  searches, b/c studies
• Leadership co-spokesperson (2), physics group
  conveners

? ET tt cross section
top mass (extra dimensions)
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• ATLAS
• Detector hadron calorimeter, calorimeter
  reconstruction software, future hardware track
  trigger
• Leadership Collaboration Board chair, US
  Institutional Board chair (2), combined
  performance working group coordinator (2)

Barrel Calorimeter calorimeter
resolution jet reconstruction
12/04 2004 testbeam optimizing
layer weights
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Newer Efforts

• Braidwood Reactor ? Experiment
• Leadership co-spokesperson
• Linear Collider
• Leadership American Linear Collider Physics
  Group co-chair

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Near Future

• ATLAS (physics questions 1, 3)
• Commissioning detector preparing for 1st data
  track trigger proposal
• CDF (physics questions 1, 3, (2))
• Complete upgrades physics analysis
• KTeV (physics question 2)
• Complete physics analysis
• Braidwood (physics question 2)
• Prepare full proposal
• Linear Collider (physics questions 1, 3, 2(?))
• Physics implications for detector and accelerator

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Scientific Personnel

• Undergraduates
• Typically 5-10 during the school year
• During summer, REU students also join

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Student Training

• Graduate students get broad training.
• Physics analysis
• Almost all students gain significant hardware
  experience.
• Calorimeters
• Tracking devices
• Most frequently electronics
• E-Shop as teaching tool
• Sophisticated modern CAD tools
• Design, simulate, prototype, debug, production,
  monitoring maintenance
• Undergraduates do significant research
• Detectors analysis

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Recent Departures

• Postdocs
• Kara Hoffman ? Maryland faculty
• Sasha Glazov ? staff scientist at DESY
• Taka Maruyama ? Tsukuba faculty
• Maria Spiropulu ? staff scientist at CERN
• Bruce Knuteson ? MIT faculty
• Bill Ashmanskas ? Fermilab scientist (post
  Cornell faculty, )
• Graduate students
• Francesco Spano ? CERN Fellow
• Colin Bown ? University of Texas Applied Research
  Laboratory
• Pedro Amaral ? CERN Fellow
• Val Prasad (FNAL Dissertation Award) ? Yale
  postdoc
• Undergraduate students (a few examples)
• Peter Onyisi APS Apker Award
• Matt Baumgart Goldwater Scholarship,
  Marshall?Cambridge
• Abby Kaboth Goldwater Scholarship

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More training

• Seminars
• Monday afternoon formal HEP seminar weekly in
  academic year
• Monday informal lunch HEP seminar weekly during
  most of the year
• Theory Wednesday seminar
• Cosmology Wednesday seminar, Friday informal
  lunch seminar
• Astrophysics Wednesday colloquium
• Enrico Fermi Institute mini-symposia (incl. run
  II, SUSY, dark matter)
• Physics Department Thursday colloquium
• Colleagues
• Experimental HEP (DOE) Yau Wah
• Accelerator physics Kwang-Je Kim
• Particle astrophysics Juan Collar, Jim Cronin,
  Dietrich Muller, Simon Swordy
• Cosmology John Carlstrom, Stephen Meyer, Clem
  Pryke, Bruce Winstein
• Theory Sean Carrroll, Jeff Harvey, Rocky Kolb,
  David Kutasov, Joe Lykken, Emil Marinec, Jon
  Rosner, Sav Sethi, Mike Turner, Carlos Wagner

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Electronics Development Group

• Critical to all of our experiments over the past
  gt30 years.
• ATLAS TileCal front end, track trigger
• CDF run I II trigger, SVT, TDCs
• KTeV trigger electronics
• OPAL preshower front end, ? monitor readout
• Developed very powerful CAD system
• Full simulation at the chip, board, multi-board
  levels
• Signal propagation on PC traces including EM
  cross talk
• We have had tools that Fermilab couldnt afford
  to purchase.
• No blue wires!
• Won a number of awards from Mentor Graphics for
  board design
• Teaching Student/postdoc works under engineers
  guidance.
• Projects in support of others
• Ex CDF Level-2 upgrade Fermilab responsibility,
  led by postdoc.
• MAGIC imaging Cherenkov telescopes for ?-ray
  astronomy (Canary Islands)

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Service to HEP Community

• Many lab, project, university, funding agency,
  NRC visiting committees, panels, subpanels
• U.S., CERN, DESY
• National international conference organizing
  committees
• Journal editorial boards
• DPF Executive Committee, APS committees
• Future international projects
• US Linear Collider Steering Committee
• Muon Technical Advisory Committee

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University Support

• Fermi-McCormick Fellowships
• Facilities
• computer room improvements for Tier 2 GRID,
  KTeV clean room, OPAL ATLAS high-bay areas
• Seed funds
• E-Shop CAD system, ATLAS TileCal software
  development, Braidwood site evaluation
• Running E-Shop as a recharge operation
• Distinguished Visiting Professors including
  experimentalists
• Past V. Fitch, D. Kleppner, D. Wilkinson
• In the coming year W. Marciano, L. DiLella
• Fast computer network
• In HEP fiber optic connection to
  Argonne/Fermilab
• Renovated space for HEP group

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Summary

• Group with a strong record of research and
  training
• Scientific leadership in all of our activities
• Current future activities addressing important
  questions in elementary particle physics
• Outreach activities in K-12, university, and
  community (Mark Oreglia)