Faculty Research Advisors

LHC measurements with ATLAS detector; high-energy physics detector development.

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A research program at the CERN Large Hadron Collider designed to test the Standard Model and search for new phenomena emerging from multi-TeV proton-proton collisions. The measurements use the Higgs boson and the massive electroweak bosons to study their self-interactions and search for new particles and force carriers. The research is done both at Duke at the with ATLAS detector at CERN.

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Analysis of experimental data at highest energies - investigating the origin of mass of fundamental particles, dark matter, new forces and additional dimensions of space; Development of analysis techniques; Designing electronics for dark matter searches using machine learning.

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Data analysis from high energy proton-antiproton collisions (looking for Higgs and other new particles, measuring top quark properties); Statistical techniques for new particle searches; Characterizing silicon vertex detector resolution using cosmic rays.

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Two- and three- body nuclear systems at low energies; Heavy particle production at colliders; Heavy quark physics, Application of EFT to hadronic physics.

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Analysis of experimental data from CDF and ATLAS - Search for Higgs and particles beyond the Standard Model; Detector development for particle physics experiments.

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Topics in neutrino physics: data analysis and detector studies, neutrino oscillation physics with atmospheric, beam and supernova neutrinos, non-standard interaction searches, detection of supernova neutrinos, neutrino scattering.

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Astrophysics and cosmology (e.g., measurements of the expansion rate of the universe)

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Parity violation, few nucleon EFTs, chiral perturbation theory, charm physics, SU(N)

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Astrophysics and cosmology (e.g., measurements and modeling of large-scale structure and weak lensing)

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Cosmology/ astrophysics/neutrino physics

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Phenomenology and signatures of the quark-gluon plasma; Transport theory of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

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Cluster Algorithms and Sign Problems; Phases transitions and critical phenomena; Lattice QCD.

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Nucleon and nuclear structure (proton charge radius, deuteron charge radius, three-dimensional imaging of the nucleon, etc.), fundamental symmetry studies, search for quantum chromodynamics (QCD) exotic states, polarized few-body photodisintegration processes and Compton scattering, development of polarized gas targets and gas Cherenkov detectors.

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Relativistic heavy ion collisions; Quark-Gluon Plasma; Quantum Chromodynamics; Chaos; Thermalization.

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Simulation and analysis of experiments to access proton structure and study the hadronization of quarks in deep-inelastic scattering and electron-positron annihilation.

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Biological physics: Tissue dynamics and pattern formation during early development.

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Plasmonics, Ultrafast spectroscopy of wide bandgap semiconductors, Gas phase molecular spectroscopy, Terahertz holography and radar

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X-ray imaging, neutron and gamma spectroscopy, computed tomography, radiation dosimetry, Monte-Carlo simulations, GEANT4, MCGPU

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Advanced laser imaging methods for cancer diagnosis, materials characterization, and cultural heritage studies; magnetic resonance techniques for improved MRI and dark matter detection

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Designing next generation electron microscope optics; Study of ultrafast electron and laser pulses; Advanced computer control and feedback systems; Development of Free Electron Lasers and novel light sources.

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Nanoscale physics; quantum emergent phenomena (tunneling in a dissipative environment; light-matter interaction (waveguide QED).

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Research Topics: Quantum dynamics associated with electron and exciton transport, emphasizing signatures encoded in 2D electronic-vibrational spectroscopy; Molecular biophysics of energy transduction and molecular machines.

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Theoretical neuroscience

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Nanoscale physics: electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene; self assembled DNA nanostructures.

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Theoretical neurobiology and biological physics.

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Quantum Phase Transition; High-Temperature Superconductivity; Frustrated Magnetism; Material Design, Synthesis and Characterization; Single Crystal Growth; X-ray and Neutron Scattering Techniques at National /International Facilities; Measurements at Extreme Environments (Ultra-Low Temperature, High-Magnetic Field, High-Pressure).

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Nanoscale physics, light-matter interactions, nanophotonics, quantum information science

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Soft matter, polymer physics, biological physics

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Quasicrystals and limit-periodic materials,mechanical metamaterials, hyperuniformity and substitution tilings,network dynamics.

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Experimental, computational, and theoretical studies of noise-induced transitions in nonlinear dynamical systems drawn from condensed matter physics; energy science

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