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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


• 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!!


Experimental GroupOverview


Our strategy is unchanged:

•Do excellent science

•Use 1st-rate facilities

•Maximize our impact


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


Hawaii plays an important role in each of these areas


Solar-problem

• Super-K + SNO = LMA solution

– Ideal for KamLAND (this month???)


-oscillation / -mass

• K2K consistent with Super-K

• Non oscillation scenarios ruled out

• All citation records are held by Super-K!!


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


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)?


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


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


• 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


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


Further future

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• 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


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!!


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


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