Roger Rusack
Professor
260D Tate, 624-2322, email rusack @ physics.umn.eduhttp://www.physics.umn.edu/~rusack/
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Research Areas: I carry out accelerator based experiments to understand the fundamental forces in Nature.
Current Research
Currently I am involved in two experiments to study this fundamental physics. The first is at the large hadron collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. The LHC will start operating inthe cming year with colliding beams of 7 TeV each and we expect to see in proton-proton collisions the production of the Higgs particle. The experiment there is called CMS and my group has been deeply involved with the construction of a crystal calorimeter for this detector. The calorimeter measures with high precison the nergies of photons and electrons produced in the collisions. Our group is now focussing on studying the physics at these very high energies using processes that invoolve these two particles. The second experiment is NOvA which is a neutrino experiment to measure the mixing between electron and muon neutrinos.
Additionally, I have an interest in developing semiconductor based photodetectors for applications in this experimental field.
Education
B.Sc. Physics, Liverpool University, 1974.