High-Energy Physics
This experimental group has long been active in studying the weak and strong interactions. Professors James Bensinger, Craig Blocker and Lawrence Kirsch have an ongoing program of experimentation at the world's highest energy antiproton collider at the Fermi National Laboratory. These huge accelerators and their associated detectors provide a unique opportunity to study particle properties that cannot be duplicated. The data recorded in these experiments is returned to Brandeis for analysis.
The Brandeis group is participating in an international collaboration at the Collider Detector at Fermilab, which is searching for new quarks as well as studying the properties of previously discovered particles in an energy regime, and with a precision not previously possible. In addition the Brandeis group is involved with the design of facilities and experiments for the Large Hadron Collider, a 7 Tev hadron collider being built at CERN in Switzerland and due to come on line in 2008. It will be able to test new theories directly and it is hoped it will make exciting new discoveries expanding our knowledge of the fundamental forces of nature.
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The Collider detector at Fermilab | ||