Research In Experimental Particle Physics
I
am an Experimental Particle
Physicist. Until recently almost all of my research was conducted at matter-antimatter accelerators
like CESR in Cornell,
LEP in Geneva, and PEP-II
in San Francisco.
My current project is searches for new elementary particles and interactions with the CMS detector at CERN. CMS is one of the two general purpose particle physics detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When completed in 2007, the LHC will be the highest energy particle smasher on Earth. We hope to find the Higgs particle and Supersymmetric particles at this collider.
My last research project was in Heavy Quark Physics and searches for violation of discrete symmetries in nature. My group played a leading role in the first observation of Matter-Antimatter asymmetry (CP Violation) in B meson system. This measurement was performed with the BaBar detector at SLAC's PEP-II collider. My Ph.D student, Shahram Rahatlou won American Physical Society's 2004 M. Tanaka award for best Thesis dissertation on this topic.
Before coming to UCSD, I worked with the ALEPH detector at CERN. Most of my work here was on searches for new sub-atomic particles and interactions, Electroweak Physics and the physics of the b quark. I discovered the B_s meson and the Lambda_b baryon here.