Our group's research is
centered on the CMS
experiment and the RD51 collaboration at CERN
(Geneva, Switzerland) and the PHENIX experiment at the Brookhaven
National Laboratory (Upton, New York). We also perform basic
particle detector R&D with GEM detectors in our labs on the Florida Tech campus and run extensive GEANT4 simulations for a Muon Tomography project. We operate a state-of-the-art Linux cluster with 180 CPU cores as a Tier-3 Grid cluster on the Open Science Grid. Our group participates in the national Quarknet
education and outreach program by organizing workshops and coordinating
a Cosmic Ray Muon Project for physics high school teachers and students from Central Florida.
Look around this website to learn more about our research !
The
CMS experiment: Installation of Alignment Sensors for
Muon Endcap Chambers. Photo credit:
MH. More CMS photos from CERN.
"X" marks the spot! Dr. H. checks the CMS laser alignment system.
Dr. Klaus Dehmelt (Ph.D. '06, now a post-doctoral researcher at DESY, Hamburg)
Jennifer Helsby (B.S. '08 scl, now a Ph.D. student in Astrophysics at U. Chicago)
Jeremy Janney (B.S. '06, now in Officer training for Nuclear Submarines in the Navy)
Richie Hoch, (M.S. '09 in CS, now a software engineer with General Dynamics, Mass.)
Georgia Karagiorgi (B.S. '04 scl, now a Ph.D. candidate at MIT (previously Columbia U., working on MiniBooNE at FNAL)
Nick Leioatts, (B.S. '09, now a Ph.D. student at U. of Rochester in Biophysics)
Thomas Moschoutis (B.S. '05, now an M.S. student in Quantum Physics at KTH University in Stockholm, Sweden)
Rafael David Pena (B.S. '08, now with IT Dept., Intersil Corp.)
Jeff Pesula, former Quarknet Physics teacher, Sebastian River High school, now at engineering company in W. Palm Beach
Dr. Szabolcs Rembeczki (Ph.D. '09)
Marion Ripert (M.S. '05, now a Ph.D. student in Accelerator Physics at Heidelberg U.)
Julie Slanker (B.S. '05 scl, now an M.S. student at Texas A&M)
Julian Spring, (B.S. '06, now Ph.D. student in particle physics at Boston U.)
Arjun Trivedi (B.S. '04 in ECE, now a Ph.D. student in HEP at U. of South Carolina working on LHC experiment)
Sara Walker (B.S. '05, now a Ph.D. student in Astroparticle Physics at Dartmouth)
(Yes, we've produced a bunch of excellent students by now - including some Ivy Leaguers!)
HEP group News
Jen Helsby wins "Undergraduate Student Paper Award in Physics & Space Science" at annual meeting of Florida Academy of Science 2008 with a presentation on "Muon Tomography for Detection of Nuclear Contraband with High Performance Computing Infrastructure." Congrats! See the FIT news release. (4/30/08)
Samir Guragain got his dissertation proposal accepted and is an official Ph.D. candidate (4/28/08).
Samir Guragain receives full travel
grant to attend the School on Physics at LHC: "Expecting LHC" at the
International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy,
in Sep 2006.
Dept. of Energy (DOE)
supports M. Hohlmann with $134,000 core research grant for three years
starting June 2006. In addition, the CMS experiment and Fermilab
support him with $26,000 for Maintenance and Operation of the CMS
detector in FY06.
Group from left to right: Back: Alfred Menendez, Marcus Hohlmann, Amilkar Quintero, Mike Abercrombie, Patrick Ford, Judson (Ben) Locke, Kondo Gnanvo. Front: Andrea Citati, Samir Guragain, Johanna-Laina Fischer, Xenia Fave, Himali Kalakhety.
