High Energy Physics at UTA UTA faculty Andrew Brandt, Kaushik De, Andrew White, Jae Yu along with many post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students investigate the basic forces of nature through particle physics studies at the world’s highest energy accelerators In the background is a photo of a sub-detector of the 5000 ton DØ detector. This sub-detector was designed and built at UTA and is currently operating at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago.

Nano-Science/Chemistry Structure of Matter cm Matter 10-9m Molecule 10-10m 10-14m Atom Nucleus Atomic Physics Nuclear Physics 10-15m u <10-18m Quark Baryon Electron <10-19m protons, neutrons, mesons, etc. p,W,L... top, bottom, charm, strange, up, down High Energy Physics (Hadron) (Lepton) Nano-Science/Chemistry Give scale and relationship to the domain that high energy physicists work in. Introduce the fundamental bits of matter loosely so that audience can point back to bulk matter. Domain. High energy means small distances

Why High Energy Physics At UTA?? YOU can perform fundamental research using world’s highest energy particle accelerators: UTA’s four HEP faculty, many grad students and post-docs are part of collaborations at Fermilab, CERN, and Brookhaven, investigating the Origin of Mass (Higgs Searches), Supersymmetry, Extra-dimensions, QCD and Forward Physics. YOU can build state-of-the-art detectors: UTA’s Swift Center Detector Laboratory is a fully equipped 10,000 sq ft construction facility; in 2005 these facilities will be incorporated in the brand new Science Building. YOU can develop “The GRID”, the next step beyond the Internet: UTA faculty leading international efforts in this area, we have a 50 processor high performance computing farm, and a GRID test-bed. (Visit us at UTA Science Hall or http://www-hep.uta.edu)

Building Detectors at UTA

High Performance Computing 84 P4 Xeon 2.4GHz CPU = 202 GHz 5TB of FBC + 3.2TB IDE Internal GFS File system Joint facility for high energy physics and computer science research 100 P4 Xeon 2.6GHz CPU = 260 GHz 64TB of IDE RAID + 4TB internal NFS File system Total CPU: 462 GHz Total disk: 76.2TB Total Memory: 168Gbyte Network bandwidth: 68Gb/sec

Tevatron: World’s Highest Energy Collider One of the DØ Forward Proton Detectors built at UTA and installed in the Tevatron tunnel Fermilab DØ

The CERN Large Hadron Collider Location of LHC in France and Switzerland, with lake Geneva and the Alps in the background Proton-proton collisions at 14 TeV The ATLAS detector is currently being built at UTA and at 100's of other institutions all over the world