Quick Links and Contact Infomation
Contact Info
phone numbers
- Group Office
- 217.333.4452
- Fax
- 217.333.4990
addresses
- Mailing
- Department of Physics
1110 West Green
Urbana, IL 61801-3080 - Campus Mail
- MC-704
- Large Package Delivery
- MRL Storeroom
104 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801-2902
This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Grant Nos. 64377, 56840, 80780, 561096, DEFG02-03ER41281, and DEFG02-91ER40677.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY03-49179 and PHY 04-26272.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Content
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Our group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is active on many fronts. The theorists study string theory and duality, electroweak symmetry breaking and grand unification, and lattice QCD and flavor physics.
In the experimental program our running experiments are CDF-II and CLEO-c, with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider turning on soon. Our astrophysics wing is working on the Dark Energy Survey and in the longer term on LSST. For the even more distant future we are involved in Linear Collider R&D.
Our CDF group is active in top physics, gauge boson physics, flavor physics with bottom hadrons, and the search for the Higgs Boson. We still have a chance to find the Higgs at the Tevatron if it is in the right mass range. But if we don’t find it there, ATLAS is just around the corner!
CLEO-c measures many charmed particle properties more than an order of magnitude better than any competitors, providing not only fundamental tests of theory (e.g., leptonic decay rates), but also measurements needed for the precise interpretation of B-factory data.
Focus continues to produce results, including the first observation of interference in D + semileptonic decay.
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will study dark matter and dark energy through their effect on the acceleration of the universe and on the history of structure formation. We are building a red sensitive and very fast 520 Megapixel camera at the Blanco 4-meter telescope in the Chilean Andes.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across half of the sky every three days, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects. The superb images from the LSST will also be used to measure the distortions in remote galaxy shapes produced by lumps of dark matter, providing multiple tests of the mysterious dark energy.
