Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Stephen L. OlsenDOE site visit
Sept 12-13, 2002
HEP at Hawaii
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
• Kirill Melnikov joins theory group– replaces San Fu Tuan
• Hirotaka Sugawara joins in April– Dai Ho Chun Chair
• Peter Gorham wins an OJI– ANITA is approved (and funded!!)
Big News!!
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Experimental GroupOverview
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Our strategy is unchanged:
•Do excellent science
•Use 1st-rate facilities
•Maximize our impact
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Currently important HEP areas
Solar neutrino problem KamLAND
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays GLUE, ANITA, SALSA
CPV in B-meson system Belle
oscillations/ mass Super-K / K2K / KamLAND
Precision tests of SM R measurements from BES
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Hawaii plays an important role in each of these areas
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Solar-problem
• Super-K + SNO = LMA solution
– Ideal for KamLAND (this month???)
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
-oscillation / -mass
• K2K consistent with Super-K
• Non oscillation scenarios ruled out
• All citation records are held by Super-K!!
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
B-meson physics with Belle
• CPV established in B0B0 system
• Asymmetries seen in B
1st observation
• EW penguin (Xs ll) 1st observation
• c’ discovered
B-tags B-tags
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
R-scan and J/ & ’ physics (BES)
• Completed R-scan analysis– Factor of ~3 improved precision
– MHiggsup by 50%
• 58M J/ & 14M ’ events– New particles/resonances
J/pp
m(pp)
???
(2230)?
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
New directions for HEP
• Radio detection of UHE cosmic ’s– Askaryan effect verified
over 4 orders of magnitude
– New limits on diffuse
UHE cosmic ’s
– ANITA approved
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
New types of radiation detectors
• 3-dim pixel detectors for LHC/NLC– 3-d sensors work
– They’re fast & rad hard
– ADRP award
– Important non-HEP applications e.g. Molecular Biology
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
• KEKB/Belle– World’s highest-Lum collider
• Super-K / KamLAND– Premier -detectors
• K2K– World’s longest beamline
• BEPC/BES – Unique energy range
• Goldstone radiotelescope• Stanford nanofab facility
• …
~1M B-mesons/day
Use 1st rate facilities
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Impact• GLUE/ FORTE /ANITA / SalSa / …
– initiator / spokesperson: Gorham
• Belle – cospokesperson: Olsen analysis coord: Browder– largest non-KEK group in Belle– ~6 of Belle’s 1st 40 papers were 100% Hawaii efforts (plus many Hawaii contributions to the others)
• BES– cospokesperson: Harris R-scan PhD stdnt: Kong
• Super-K / KamLAND– council: Learned / upmu leader: Matsuno– KamLAND calibration: Gorham / Gullian
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Further future
Pro
ject
ed L
um
2002
• Gorham is launching a new field of UHE CR detection
• Browder is a leader in the quest for Super B-factories
• Harris is co-leader of the BESIII/BEPC initiative
• We’re recruiting an Asst (Assoc?) Prof
x100
0!!
Super-B
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Experimental Faculty/Staff
• State supported: (8 faculty)– Learned & Matsuno (full 11 month salaries)– Browder, Gorham, Harris, Olsen, Peters + 1
• DOE supported: (2 faculty)– Jones & Parker
• Research Associates (6)– Guillian, Lehtinen, Seuster, Trabelsi, Zheng + 2
• Graduate students (8)• Technical Support (~2.5 FTE’s)
– Ibaraki, Rosen, Varner
They’re back!!
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
University support (HEP-exp)
• 8 faculty salaries – 11 months for Learned & Matsuno
• Reduced teaching loads – 0 for Matsuno, ~50% for Olsen
• High-quality lab space• Start-up funds• Off-campus overhead
– 0% overhead for postdocs
• Department machine shop– 2 full-time machinists
• ~ 50% of our computing system
Saltstack CR expt
Fishnet PC farm
Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Summary• Fore-front scientific program
– Solar-; -oscil / -mass; CPV; SM tests; UHE cosmic rays
• Talented & productive team– Responsible for important papers/analyses
• High impact– Responsible for major initiatives; leaders in our collaborations
• Innovative– 3-dim pixels; radio detection of UHE showers; …
• Well supported by the University– Salary support + equipment + reasonable overhead rates
• Promising future– Browder & Gorham have emerged as important HEP leaders