Physics Colloquia
Using Silicon Trackers for High Energy Physics
Aaron Dominguez
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Level: IntermediateSilicon particle trackers are a crucial component to modern high energy collider experiments. Recent results from the DZERO experiment at Fermilab using this technology to search for evidence of the Higgs Boson will be discussed. The CMS experiment at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland will begin taking collision data this year with the largest silicon tracker ever built. The UNL high energy physics team helped build part of this detector called the forward pixel detector, which plays a key role in pattern recognition and track reconstruction in the proton-proton collisions of CMS. This new detector will be discussed as well as the general technique of using silicon trackers to do particle physics.
| Upcoming Colloquia Fall 2009 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 12/2/2009 | Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Using Silicon Trackers for High Energy Physics |
| Upcoming Colloquia Spring 2010 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1/13/2010 | Matthew Beaky, Truman State University | Summer Research Opportunities in Physics |
| 1/20/2010 | Anders Carlsson, Washington University in St Louis | TBA |
| 2/17/2010 | Francesc Ferrer, Washington University, St. Louis | TBA |
| 4/14/2010 | Dale E. Chimenti, Iowa State University | TBA |
| 4/28/2010 | Steve Spangler, University of Iowa | The Solar Corona |
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