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High Energy Faculty and Experiments

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   :: The Late Professor Emeritus Frederick Reines, Nobel Laureate 1995

   :: Professor Steven Barwick
AMANDA - Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (http://www.amanda.uci.edu) and ANITA -  Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (http://www.ps.uci.edu/~anita)

   :: Professor David Casper
:: Super-Kamiokande and UNO proton decay experiments, K2K, J-PARCnu and Betabeam long-baseline experiments,  NUANCE neutrino physics simulation software.

:: Minerva experiment -
a high statistic Neutrino scattering experiment aimed at better understanding of the way neutrinos interact with matter.




   :: Professor David Kirkby
BaBar at SLAC.   BABAR is an experiment designed primarily to study bound states of b quarks, called B mesons, produced in electron positron collisions by the PEP-II storage ring. The experiment is located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), in Menlo Park, California. The BABAR collaboration consists of about 600 physicists from 12 countries.

   :: Professor Andrew Lankford, Department Chair
LHC-Atlas Dectector at CERN, and BaBar at SLAC.

   :: Professor Mark A. Mandelkern and Professor Jonas Schultz
Mark Mandelkern and Jonas Schultz are involved in several elementary particle physics experiments, at different stages, at a number of accelerator laboratories, namely: E760/835 at Fermilab, to perform precision studies of charmonium states formed in proton-antiproton annihilations; E862 at Fermilab, to produce and detect antihydrogen atoms for the first time, using proton-antiproton interactions in the E835 target; and the BaBar experiment, being built at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, to study B meson physics and CP violation in an asymmetric electron-positron collider.

   :: Professor William R. Molzon
Rare K Meson Decays at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL-871), and the Muon to Electron Conversion Proposal (MECO).
 
   :: Professor Riley Newman
Tests of Newtonian Gravity  (distance, composition, and spin dependence), the equivalence principle, and searches for new forces. The current focus of the program is development of torsion balances operating at cryogenic temperatures, for a new generation of experiments in these areas.

   :: Professor Henry W. Sobel
Super-Kamiokande, K2K Long Baseline Expt., IMB, and Bugey and Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Experiments.

   ::  Professor Anyes Taffard
  High Energy Particle Physics

   :: Professor Gaurang B. Yodh
Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy for 200 GeV to 1 PeV using the MILAGRO (Multi-Institutional, Los Alamos Gamma Ray Observatory) water Cherenkov telescope, search for emission from Supernova remnants, Gamma Ray Bursters, Active Galactiv Nuclei, and evaporating Primordial Black Holes. Also with AMANDA, and a renowned sitar player.
 
High Energy Experimental Collaborations of U. C. Irvine

Research Physicists
  • Dieter Best - D0
  • Wojciech Gajewski - Super-Kamiokande
  • Danuta Kielczewska - Super-Kamiokande
  • Bill Kropp - Super-Kamiokande, Bugey, Chooz
  • Tingjun Liu - Rare K Decays
  • Mike Moe has retired- Double Beta Decay
  • Charles Munger - SLAC
  • Anthony Shoup - MILAGRO
  • Michael Smy - Super-Kamiokande
  • David Stoker - D0, BaBar
  • Vladimir Tumakov - Rare K Decays
  • Mark Vagins - Super-Kamiokande

Staff
  • Scott DeLay
  • Steven Pier
  • Jed Rogge

Administrative Assistant
Taren Aprati
taprati@uci.edu
949.824.5402

 

For updates/corrections, please contact Alison Lara
updated 5.29.2008

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