ABOUT OUR RESEARCH
Experimental research in particle physics at UT Austin is done by members of the Center for Particles and Fields. The program includes cutting-edge experiments in four areas: proton-proton collisions at the highest available energy at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC, neutrino experiments at Fermilab and in an underground laboratory in France, and ultra-precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. These experiments explore the fundamental properties of quarks and leptons and of the interactions between them.
FACULTY
Core Physics Faculty
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Timothy R. Andeen, Jr., Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008.
Associate Professor of Physics.
Experimental searches for new particles and interactions and investigation of electroweak symmetry breaking high-speed electronics development for new, large-scale particle detectors.
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Karol Lang, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1985.
Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics.
Experimental particle physics, rare kaon decays, neutrino interactions and oscillations, searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay, axions, processes beyond the Standard Model; development of particle detectors and analysis techniques of complex data sets; medical nuclear imaging.
- Scott Kravitz, Stanford University, 2017.
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Experimental particle physics; dark matter direct detection; machine learning; novel particle detector development; rare event searches
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Christina Markert, Ph.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 2001.
Professor of Physics | Physics Library Liaison.
Nuclear physics; relativistic heavy-ion physics; the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase.
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Peter Onyisi, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008.
Associate Professor of Physics.
Experimental investigation of electroweak symmetry breaking and searches for new particles and interactions; computing with large datasets of structured data.
Professors in Other Departments
Emeritus and Retired Physics Faculty
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Arno Böhm, Ph.D., Universität Marburg, 1966.
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Particle phenomena in terms of algebraic and group-theoretical methods.
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Charles Chiu, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1965.
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Theoretical particle physics, particularly in quantum chromodynamics; confinement problems; subquark and sublepton models; theories in Hadron collisions.
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Austin M. Gleeson, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1965.
Professor of Physics (Retired)
Field theory of strong interactions and the physics of superdense matter.
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Jack L. Ritchie, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1983.
Professor Emeritus of Physics
High-energy/nuclear physics.
In Memorium
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Duane A. Dicus, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1968.
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Field theory of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions; astrophysical implications of the weak force.
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Roy F. Schwitters, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971.
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair Emeritus in Physics #4
Experimental high-energy physics detector development and B-physics studies.
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