High Energy Physics At the University of Rochester

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High Energy Physics At the University of
Rochester
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A Rich Tradition

• Long history of HEP at UR, starting with Lee
  DuBridge who built one of the first cyclotrons in
  1935 at UR

• DuBridge hired outstanding faculty, including
  S. Barnes, F. Seitz, V. Weisskopf, R. Marshak and
  J. Platt

• In 1948, a larger cyclotron was built
• In 1950 Marshak as department chair initiated the
  annual Rochester Conferences in High Energy
  Physics, which brought leading HEP physicists
  from around the world to campus

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Evolution of the Program

• In 1950 the ONR contract was replaced by one from
  the Atomic Energy Commission, which subsequently
  led to funding from the Department of Energy.
  NSF funding of HEP at UR started in 1967.
• Carrying on the tradition of Marshak,
  Weisskopf et al, we are still trying to identify
  and address the most important questions in our
  field
• How is electroweak symmetry broken?
• Is the SM a low-energy approximation to a more
  exact theory?
• Is the large top mass a clue as to what is behind
  the SM?
• Is what we are seeing ONLY SM top?

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Current UR Faculty

• 10 Experimentalists (7 DOE HEP)
• Arie Bodek
• Regina Demina
• Tom Ferbel
• Adrian Melissinos
• Kevin McFarland
• Paul Slattery
• Paul Tipton
• Steve Manly (DOE Nuclear-Phobos)
• Ed Thorndike (NSF-CLEO)
• Frank Wolfs (NSF Nuclear-Phobos)

• 5 Theorists (4 DOE HEP)
• Ashok Das
• Susumu Okubo
• Lynne Orr
• Sarada Rajeev
• Carl Hagen (Collaborating Faculty)

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The Present Program

• DOE-funded HEP Efforts
• Tevatron Run 2 with CDF
• Endplug, Silicon, L3/Data Hub, Operations and
  Physics
• Tevatron Run 2 with DØ
• Fiber Tracker, Operations and Physics, Silicon
  Upgrade
• CMS at the LHC
• H-CAL, TOB, Installation
• Existing and Future Neutrino efforts at FNAL/NUMI
  and/or J-PARC
• Accelerator RD at FNAL AØ (for LC) and for Run
  2b
• electron cooling in the Recycler
• Novel use of LIGO for coherent field search
• Collider Phenomenology and Formal Theory Programs
  that complement above activities

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Producing Scientists as well as Science

• Since 1980, produced about 6 of HEP Ph.D.s with
  about 3 of DOE University Budget
• 104 Ph.Ds, 34 now in faculty positions, 25 at
  national labs or similar research institutions
• 96 Post-docs, 37 now faculty, 28 at national labs
  or similar research institutions
• Plus Nobels to Steven Chu (UR undergrad, 70,
  worked with Ferbel) and Masa Koshiba (UR Ph.D.,
  55)

Joe Rogers
Sheldon Stone
YKKim
Sarah Eno
Ron Poling
Jack Ritchie
Gordon Watts
Kirsten Tollefson
Karol Lang
Joey Huston
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HEP Research Recognition

• Many HEP faculty have received individual
  recognition for their research
• Panofsky Prize of American Physical Society
  Thorndike
• Nishina Foundation Award (Japan) Okubo
• Guggenheim Fellowships Okubo Ferbel Olsen
  Thorndike Slattery
• Humboldt Fellowships Lobkowicz Ferbel
• Fulbright Fellowship Das
• Sloan Fellowships Ferbel Bodek McFarland
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
  Tipton
• NSF Career Awards Orr McFarland
• DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Awards Das
  Tipton Orr McFarland Demina
• Cottrell Scholar Award McFarland

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Conclusions

• Despite diminished resources we have an
  excellent, well-rounded program
• Energy frontier at Run 2 and LHC
• Neutrino Program
• Accelerator RD for LC and Run 2
• Well-rounded theory/phenomenology program
• We have a proven track record of producing great
  science and excellent scientists
• We continue to attract the highest quality
  faculty, post-docs and students
• We are making every effort to maintain and
  improve our program