Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April 20001 Particle Physics Group Faculty and Researchers Research directions –Overview –OPAL, ATLAS, BaBar Infrastructure.

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Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Particle Physics Group Faculty and Researchers Research directions –Overview –OPAL, ATLAS, BaBar Infrastructure Future plans and Goals Introduction

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Personnel Young active group Internationally recognized research program Faculty: –Experimentalists: Astbury, Keeler, Kowalewski, Lefebvre, Roney –Theorists: Picciotto Institute of Particle Physics Fellows –McPherson, Sobie Onsite TRIUMF Staff –Birney, Hodges, Langstaff, Lenckowski, Walsh Research Associates –Onsite: Boudinov, Fincke, Poffenberger, Rensing, Van Uytven –CERN: Long, Sbarra Technicians: Dowling, Vowles

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Faculty R. Keeler (83) PhD UBC 81 –Electroweak physics ( UA1, OPAL, ATLAS) –Director (elect 2001) IPP (Institute of Particle Physics) –Chair Subatomic Physics GSC ( ) R. Kowalewski (97) PhD Cornell 88 –B physics, particle lifetimes, reconstruction software (OPAL, BaBar, ATLAS) M. Lefebvre (91) PhD Cambridge 89 –Electroweak physics, Calorimetry (UA2, RD3, ATLAS) –Founded ATLAS Canada C. Picciotto (68) PhD UC-Santa Barbara 68 –Weak Decay Theory M. Roney (96) Carleton 89 –Electroweak, drift chambers and B physics (OPAL, BaBar, ATLAS) A. Astbury (83) PhD Liverpool 61 –FRS, FRCS –Director of TRIUMF ( )

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Particle Physics Group IPP –R. McPherson (97) PhD Princeton 95 Nonstandard Model (BNL-E787, OPAL, ATLAS) OPAL NonSM Searches coordinator OPAL Physics coordinator ( ) –Sobie (92) PhD Toronto OPAL Tau physics coordinator (1998-) Spokesman for Victoria HPSS CFI request $12M Holds IBM SUR Grant ($820,000) TRIUMF –Bryman ( Jan 2000 Warren Chair UBC ) –Honma ( March 1998, CERN Faculty ) –We expect to replace Bryman and Honma over the next two years. Adjunct Faculty

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April IPP Institute of Particle Physics of Canada –Coordinates and promotes particle physics in Canada –12 Universities, 150 individuals –Seven Scientists supported through national funding agency –Maximum of two per university Scientists choose their location McPherson - being reviewed for IPP tenure Sobie - Senior IPP Scientist –Previous IPP scientists at Victoria J. McKenna (Faculty UBC) M. Roney –Director Elect ( ) Keeler

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Citations Renowned Papers

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Research Overview Time Line OPAL is completing data taking this year Analysis will continue Babar has just started data taking and will continue for several years ATLAS is under construction First beam in ~2005 New physics - Next Linear Collider, Neutrino physics Experimental Program

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Research Overview Research Funding –NSERC 1999/2000 Operating $728,970 –OPAL, BaBar and ATLAS experiments Equipment $1.4M –4.3M$ over 7 years (ATLAS Feedthroughs) –Industrial $820,000 (in kind computers from IBM) –CFI & BCKDF (Federal & Provincial) Beowulf cluster award $155,000 –Physics and Astronomy HPC award $2.5M –University wide HPSS Request 12M$

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Research Funding Operating ~ $700K per year ATLAS MIG is $4.3M over 7 years Rare K has left (Bryman) IBM grant is for one year only Excellent track record for attracting funding

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Research Overview Graduate students –10 MSc and 7 PhD degrees awarded over last 10 years NSERC scholarships 7 –Presently 6 PhD and 3 MSc students (one PhD graduated 2 weeks ago) NSERC scholarships 2, FCAR 1 –Recruitment 1 MSc coming 2 MSc in negotiation –Quality Two have won the Governor General’s gold medal for best thesis at Victoria One is a faculty member at U. Alberta PDF’s at SLAC, DESY, SNO, Carleton, Michigan

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Research Program Large Detector at the LEP electron- positron Collider at CERN OPAL McPherson Kowalewski Keeler Roney Sobie Collect and analyze W pair data from LEP2 Triple Gauge Couplings (substructure) W-tau coupling Analyze precision data from LEP1 (5M events) tau polarization, tau decay branching ratios

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April OPAL Research Responsibilities Online Data Reconstruction Victoria group designed and built a large computer cluster that has reconstructed every OPAL event within an hour of it being collected It runs year round doing reprocessing Research Associates (located at CERN) Gordon Long (Photons + E-missing) Carla Sbarra (Triple Gauge Couplings) T. Smith (now CERN staff) D. Deatrich (EPFL Lausanne) Leadership Physics Co-ordinator Elect (2001) - McPherson Tau Physics Coordinator - (1998- ) Sobie ( ) Roney OPAL B Physics Coordinator ( ) Kowalewski

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April OPAL Research Graduate Students (1991-) –Degrees Awarded : 5 MSc 6 PhD –Bailey PhD - Triple gauge couplings –Graham PhD - (tau polarization) –Stumpf PhD - Tau lepton universality At CERN running shifts (1month) –Vachon PhD - Excited Leptons At CERN - ONLINE Reconstruction (18 months) Undergraduate students ~1-2 per year

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April ATLAS Proton-proton collisions at the energy frontier –Understand Electroweak Symmetry Breaking –Search for Supersymmetry –General Purpose Detector ATLAS Lefebvre Keeler Sobie Birney Hodges Langstaff

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April ATLAS Research Responsibilities & Activities –Endcap Cryogenic Feedthrough Onsite - will visit. 4.3M$ project Mechanical design & finite element analysis - EC & Barrel (T. Hodges, R. Langstaff) Established electrical requirements and tests (Fincke,Poffenberger) Prototype completed - Production to start in May –Endcap Hadronic Calorimeter TRIUMF project -mechanical design (Hodges, Langstaff) Test beam software - Lefebvre –Computing for ATLAS Canada National Computing Board - Sobie Prototype OO reconstruction code

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Assembly of a feedthrough model

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April ATLAS RESEARCH Research Associates –M. Fincke (FT stripline design) –P. Poffenberger (Production manager) Technologists ( Birney - Supervisor) –A. Dowling, G, Vowles Graduate Students –Degrees awarded 3 MSc 1 PhD –M. Dobbs - PhD Triple Gauge Couplings at ATLAS –D. Fortin - MSc Endcap hadron calorimeter beam tests (finish summer) –V. Singh - MSc (start in Sept.) Undergraduates –5 so far and 2 starting in May

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April BaBar Kowalewski Roney CP Violation at SLAC –Precision Measurements b-quark CP asymmetry quark mixing (CKM) tau electroweak physics Leadership –Member BaBar executive board - Roney –Chair BaBar computing coordination board Kowalewski (2000)

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April BaBar Research Responsibilities & Activities Detector –Provided QC/QA during drift chamber construction - continuing responsibility for maintenance and slow controls Software –Track reconstruction: bunch t0, decay- in-flight, kink-finding –Beowulf - designed & built cluster for BaBar Canada data analysis - Rensing Analysis –Lepton ID tools –Lepton universality from tau decays –Vub measurement –Charmless B-decays

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April BaBar Research Research Associates –Boudinov (starting May 1) –Desilva (now BaBar software professional) –Kaufmann (now in industry) Graduate Students –C. Brown - MSc Lepton Universality (will do a PhD) –P. Jackson - MSc Track kink reconstruction (will do a PhD) –D. Fortin - will start a PhD in Sept. Undergraduates –4 to date, 1 starting in May

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Infrastructure TRIUMF Department –Machine shop –Electronics shop Science Faculty –Glass shop & stores (detector R&D)

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April TRIUMF National Laboratory supporting accelerator based research –Victoria was one of the founding universities “Target design group” is located at Victoria –Provides Engineering Support for particle physics SLD Calorimeter ATLAS Endcap Hadronic Calorimeter and Feedthroughs Engineering Support –Hodges ( TRIUMF Engineer) Langstaff ( TRIUMF Senior Designer ) Lenckowski (TRIUMF Junior Designer ) Birney (TRIUMF Senior Technologist) Walsh (TRIUMF Admin Assistant

Richard KeelerDepartment Review, April Particle Physics Group Goals Replace Pearce Chair Hire Particle Theorist or Phenomenologist Strengthen group –Junior faculty –Group size ~6 experimentalists & 2 theorists for critical mass Maintain and Improve infrastructure –Replace TRIUMF Scientists & Engineers –Maintain Machine Shop –Maintain Electronics Shop