2001-2002 Colloquium Series
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Tuesday, 20 November 2001, 4:00 PM
(Refreshments at 3:45 PM)
EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS WITH THE D0 DETECTOR AT FERMILAB
Alice Bean , University of Kansas.
Abstract
The major thrust in the area of particle physics has been to verify The
Standard Model or to find out where it is deficient. One big question is
the origin of mass for all particles in the Universe. In the Standard Model,
the Higgs field is responsible for providing mass to particles. The physical
manifestation of the Higgs field is the Higgs boson. We are searching for
this particle using the proton-antiproton collider located near
Chicago (at Fermilab) called the Tevatron. The Tevatron is currently the
highest energy particle accelerator in the world. Located in the Tevatron
is the D0 detector with which we hope to discover the Higgs boson or
other exotic particles.
Alice Bean is an associate professor at the University of Kansas. She grew up in Flagstaff and graduated from Flagstaff High School. After getting Bachelor's degrees from the University of California at Irvine she went to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate school. Her PhD thesis work was performed using the Cornell Electron Storage Ring data and was completed in 1987. She enjoyed spending 6 years with the University of California at Santa Barbara high energy physics group working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center as well as UCSB before she became a professor at the University of Kansas. This year Prof Bean is living full time at the Fermilab national accelerator facility outside Chicago, Illinois where she is Deputy Project Manager for the Run2b silicon detector for D0.
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