Univ. of Michigan - High Energy Physics Home Page

University of Michigan

High Energy Physics

Welcome to the High Energy Physics home page on the World Wide Web. We are part of the Physics Department at the University of Michigan located in Ann Arbor, MI.

Our Mission

To understand the fundamental elements that create and make up our universe as it exists today, through education and research.

High Energy Physics Faculty

Fred Adams	Professor	Wolfgang Lorenzon	Associate Professor
Carl Akerlof	Professor	Timothy McKay	Associate Professor
Dan Amidei	Professor	Homer Neal	Professor
Myron Campbell	Professor	Jianming Qian	Associate Professor
J. Wehrley Chapman	Professor	Keith Riles	Professor
Alex Chao	Adjunct Professor	Byron Roe	Professor
Ernest Courant	Adjunct Professor	Daniel Sinclair	Professor Emeritus
Yaroslav Derbenev	Adjunct Professor	Dennis Sivers	Adjunct Professor
August Evrard	Professor	Gregory Tarle	Professor
David Gerdes	Associate Professor	Rudolf P. Thun	Professor
Lawrence Jones	Professor Emeritus	John C. (Jack) van der Velde	Professor Emeritus
Alan Krisch	Professor	Victor Wong	Adjunct Professor
Michael Longo	Professor	Bing Zhou	Associate Professor

Research Scientists

Tiesheng Dai	Sr. Engineering Associate	Shawn McKee	Assistant Research Scientist
Edward Diehl	Assistant Research Scientist	Richard Raymond	Assistant Research Scientist
Steven Goldfarb	Assistant Research Scientist	Michael Schubnell	Assistant Research Scientist
H. Richard Gustafson	Research Scientist	Monica Tecchio	Assistant Research Scientist
Daniel Levin	Assistant Research Scientist	Andrew Tomasch	Assistant Research Scientist
Ali Lin	Associate Research Scientist Emeritus	Zhengguo Zhao	Associate Research Scientist
Vladimir Luppov	Visiting Scholar

Research Fellows

Andrew Alton	Alexander Borissov	Jun Cao	Claudio Ferretti	Yi Jiang
J. Stephen Miller	Hyang-kyu Park	Durga Rajaram	Thomas Wright	Haijun Yang

Research Technicians and Engineers

Jon Ameel

Helmut Schick

Curtis Weaverdyck

Current Research Experiments

	ROTSE - Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment UofM Members: Carl Akerlof, Timothy McKay, Eli Rykoff, Heather Swan, Don Smith ROTSE is an experimental program to search for astrophysical optical transients on time scales of a fraction of a second to a few hours. This is an area of astronomical science that has been relatively unexplored until now.

	ATLAS UofM Members: Myron Campbell, J. Wehrley Chapman, Edward Diehl, Steven Goldfarb, Daniel Levin, Wolfgang Lorenzon, Shawn McKee, Homer Neal, Helmut Schick, Gregory Tarle, Jianming Qian, Curtis Weaverdyck, John Yanchula, Zhengguo Zhao, Bing Zhou ATLAS will study proton-proton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN).

	CDF - Collider Detector Facility UM Members: Dan Amidei, Ken Bloom, Myron Campbell, J. Wehrley Chapman, Claudio Ferretti, David Gerdes, J. Stephen Miller, Monica Tecchio, Thomas Wright This group are studying the physics of collisions between protons and anti-protons at high energy, 1800 GeV.

	D0 UofM Members: Andrew Alton, Yi Jiang, Homer Neal, Jianming Qian, Bing Zhou The group is pursuing high pT physics at the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab.

	LIGO - The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory UofM Members: H. Richard Gustafson, Keith Riles A pioneering effort to design and construct a novel scientific facility - a gravitational-wave observatory - that will open a new observational window on the universe.

	L3 UofM Members: Keith Riles, Byron Roe, Haijun Yang L3 has built a huge detector which detects particles produced in the collision of electrons and positrons circulating in the LEP ring.

	SDSS - Sloan Digital Sky Survey UofM Members: Timothy McKay The SDSS is now obtaining a five color digital image of one quarter of the entire night sky. This will include images of more than 100 million galaxies, and comparable numbers of stars. In addition, the SDSS will measure detailed spectra for a million galaxies and 100,000 quasars. This combination will provide by far the most detailed portrait of the Universe today. The Michigan SDSS group uses these data to study the relationship between luminous and dark matter in the Universe. By detecting the subtle distortions of distant galaxies caused by gravitational lensing, we determine the total amount of dark matter present in galaxies, groups, and clusters. By relating the masses we measure to the luminous properties of these objects, such as their total luminosities, we derive scaling relations which provide important insights into the formation of structure in the Universe.

	MIPP - Main Injector Particle Production UofM Members: Michael Longo, H. Richard Gustafson, HyangKyu Park, Durga Rajaram

	SNAP - SuperNova Acceleration Probe UofM Members: Gregory Tarle, Tim McKay, Shawn McKee, Michael Schubnell, Andrew Tomasch

	SPIN PHYSICS CENTER - UofM Members: Alex Chao, Ernest Courant, Yaroslav Derbenev, Alan Krisch, Ali Lin, Wolfgang Lorenzon, Vladimir Luppov, Richard Raymond, Dennis Sivers, Victor Wong Development of Polarized proton targets and jets at Michigan's Spin Physics Center. SPIN@COSY - Spin flipping polarized deuterons and protons at COSY Accelerator at Forschungszentrum in Juelich, Germany; SPIN@J-PARC - Analyzing power An in 50 GeV very-high P^2 p-p elastic scattering.

	MINI-BOONE - Booster Neutrino Oscillation Experiment at Fermilab UofM Members: Byron Roe and Jun Cao This will make a definitive check of the LSND putative numu-nue oscillation signal, and, if real, make a precision measurement of the oscillation parameters.

	HYPERCP - CP Violations in Hyperon Decays UofM Members: Michael Longo, H. Richard Gustafson and Hyang-kyu Park

	CKM - Charge Kaons at the Main Injector UofM Members: Myron Campbell, Michael Longo