The D Ø Experiment at Fermilab
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Grad Student Welcome Columbia - Sep 2001 1 The DØ Experiment at Fermilab Fermilab Tevatron near Chicago p collisions at s ~ 2 TeV ~4 miles circumference >1000 supercond. magnets New run began Mar 2001 World’s highest E accel. The DØ Experiment ~500 phys. – 17 countries Large: ~10m x 10m x 10m Complex Detector silicon, scint. fibers, superconducting solenoid, liquid argon… ~10 6 electronics channels Currently taking Data !
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Fermilab Tevatron near Chicago p collisions at s ~ 2 TeV ~4 miles circumference >1000 supercond. magnets New run began Mar 2001 World’s highest E accel. The D Ø Experiment ~500 phys. – 17 countries Large: ~10m x 10m x 10m Complex Detector - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Grad Student Welcome Columbia - Sep 2001 1
The DØ Experiment at FermilabThe DØ Experiment at Fermilab
Fermilab Tevatron near Chicago p collisions at s ~ 2 TeV
~4 miles circumference >1000 supercond. magnets
New run began Mar 2001 World’s highest E accel.
The DØ Experiment ~500 phys. – 17 countries Large: ~10m x 10m x 10m Complex Detector
silicon, scint. fibers, superconducting solenoid, liquid argon…
~106 electronics channels Currently taking Data !
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DØ at ColumbiaDØ at ColumbiaWe build interesting things
Calorimeter Electronics analog pipelines signal shaping
Muon Trigger (L2) digital signal processors field program. gate arrays real time algorithms
Silicon Tracking Trigger (L2) pioneering project reconstruction of tracks in real
time
Future Projects calorimeter trigger? …
To answer basic questions
Why is there more matter than antimatter?
CP violation in the B system
Why do particles have mass? Higgs discovery
How is Electro-Weak symmetry broken?
Higgs, top, precision meas…
What is beyond the standard model?
SUSY, technicolor, string theories…
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The Columbia DØ GroupThe Columbia DØ Group
Postdocs
Leslie Groer
Georg Steinbrück
Christos Leonidopoulos
StudentsChris Hays (grad 01)
Mingcheng GaoShaohua Fu
Burair KothariTulika Bose
Faculty
Mike Tuts Hal Evans John Parsons
