I am working on two high energy physics experiments: CDF and ATLAS. On
CDF, I have
built parts of the endplug calorimeter, COT and central preradiator
(CPR) upgrades. I was
co-leader for the latter. On ATLAS, I have been involved in the
construction and
installation of the hadron calorimeter (Tilecal) and the minimum bias
trigger scintillators.
32 ten-ton Tilecal modules were instrumented and tested at MSU before
being shipped
to CERN.
On both CDF and ATLAS, I have been interested in QCD and Standard Model
analyses. I
was QCD co-convener for 4 years in CDF and currently am the North
American ATLAS
Standard Model and Higgs co-convener as well as leading the effort for
the ATLAS
W/Z + jets CSC (computer systems commissioning) note. I am working
towards Rediscovering the Standard Model at
the LHC first, in order that claims of any new
physics are believable.
Below is a picture of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
If you want to keep track of the daily progress of the installation,
click
on this website.
Useful links:
CTEQ: a collaboration of
experimentalists and phenomenologists of which I am co-spokesman. CTEQ
produces one of the two most widely used sets of parton distribution
functions in high energy physics as well as operating a yearly summer
school alternating between the US and Europe.
Hard Interactions of Quarks and Gluons: A Primer for LHC Physics by
J. Campbell, J. Huston and W.J. Stirling
This has been one of the most downloaded articles in Reports on
Progress in physics this past year.
Jets in Hadron-Hadron Collisions by S. Ellis, K. Hatakeyama, J.
Huston, P. Loch, M. Toennesmann
To be published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
SpartyJet:
a program to facilitate physics analyses involving jets; in use in CDF
and ATLAS.
See the article in November's Symmetry
magazine.
Les
Houches: Physics at TeV Colliders; a series of workshops at Les
Houches that I have helped organize dealing with hadron collider
physics at both the Tevatron and the LHC.
TeV4LHC: using the
data and experience at the Tevatron to prepare for the LHC. The QCD
writeup can be found here.