Roger W. RusackProfessor of Physics
University of Minnesota
RESEARCH IN PARTICLE PHYSICS
Experiments that I am working are:
One which is being built: The CMS Experiment which will run at the CERN LHC, one that has almost completed the data analysis, which studied the production of charmonium states at the Fermilab anti-proton accumulator E835 and a third (NOnA) which is in the early design stages to detect neutrinos produced off the NUMI beam axis in Northern Minnesota.
CMS is one of the two large scale experiments under construction for the CERN Large Hadron Collider. This experiment is being built to explore the new energy frontier which will become available when the two 7 TeV beams collide, which we hope will be in 2007.
E835 is a precision study of the states of charmonium using the Fermilab anti-proton accumulator colliding with an atomic hydrogen gas jet. Some nice photos of the experiment can be found in this directory .
Useful links:
The CMS project management code .
The US-CMS MSProject files for cost and schedule .
Some of my recent talks can be found here.
Some photographs of the work going on at CERN, and the people
doing it can be found here.
TEACHING:
In the Fall 04 semester I will be teaching the course "Waves Optics and Relativity", (Phys 4303). Details about this course will be announced closer to the start of the academic year. The required textbook for this course is "Wave Physics" by William Elmore and Mark Heald, published by Dover.
PERSONAL:
Some family photographs can be found here.Minnesota Postal Address