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Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Stephen L. OlsenDOE site visit
Sept 12-13, 2002
HEP at Hawaii
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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!!
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Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Experimental GroupOverview
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Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Our strategy is unchanged:
•Do excellent science
•Use 1st-rate facilities
•Maximize our impact
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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
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Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Hawaii plays an important role in each of these areas
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Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen
Solar-problem
• Super-K + SNO = LMA solution
– Ideal for KamLAND (this month???)
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-oscillation / -mass
• K2K consistent with Super-K
• Non oscillation scenarios ruled out
• All citation records are held by Super-K!!
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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
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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)?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!!
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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
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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