Research Work

Elementary Particle Physics: My research is in the field of elementary particle physics. I did my undergraduate work at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, my PhD graduate work at the University of Notre Dame and four years of postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. I joined the Physics Department at Indiana University in 1973 where I have been ever since except for one year as a program officer at National Science Foundation (1982) and another as a Scientific Associate at CERN in Geneva Switzerland (1986). I am Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and from 2006 to 2008 was a Visiting Fellow at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA. I have led experimental teams on experiments at Fermilab (near Chicago), Brookhaven Lab (on Long Island) and Jefferson Lab (Virginia). I am a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Trustee-at-Large for the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) until mid-2008. My C.V. is here (PDF).

Quark and Antiquark bound by a flux-tube in a meson

The GlueX Detector in Hall D at Jefferson Lab

The GlueX Project: I was the founding spokesperson (scientific leader) of the GlueX collaboration at Jefferson. The goal of this project is to search for a new state of matter - exotic hybrid mesons - that are predicted by the theory of quarks and gluons. When the gluonic field (flux-tube) holding the quark and anti-quark in a meson is excited, the result are these exotic mesons. The GlueX detector, scheduled to start data-taking in 2014, will be used to search for these exotic particles. You can read the physics and project in the cover story of the October 2000 American Scientist, also a cover story in the Polish Journal Postepy Fizyki and in the CERN Courier. A more technical document describing the physics and detectors is here. Here is some work on calorimetry for GlueX.

Dowload the American Scientist Exotics article here

Publication List (most are collaborative papers): here

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Current Work: I now (since July 2008) work part-time for URS doing support work for the US Navy and Marines though the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane. The URS facility is located at the WestGate Technology Park just outside of the Crane facility. My current work focuses on energy issues including understanding how energy is used at Crane, renovation of a nearby hydropower plant and a possible future application of small modular reactors. I am also preparing a manuscript for a text based on the honors physics course that I taught at Indiana University.