Teaching activities

PHY251
Visit the homepage of Introductory Undergraduate Physics Laboratory: Mechanics, Heat and Oscillations. The experimnets are the classic ones and all measurements are done the classical way (tape measures, timers, etc) but they are interpreted using modern technology: spreadsheets, word processors, graphing programs and video recordings. All information about this course is accessible here.

Research activities

My area of research is experimental particle physics also called high energy physics. This research studies the interactions or forces between the most elementary constituents of matter (particles are: quarks, leptons). The probed interactions are electromagnetic, weak and strong and the corresponding forces are mediated by the following particles: photons, W/Z particles and gluons. Mathematically all of this is described in a theoretical framework called the Standard Model. The goal of nearly all experimental efforts in particle physics is:
The experiment I am currently working on is D0. Its current homepage and its improved homepage
Homepage of the D0 Experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. With this detector we study proton-antiproton interactions at the highest energies available in the world. Searches for new particles up to 200 times the proton mass are carried out.
An additional research activity is: the CTEQ collaboration
Homepage of the CTEQ collaboration. This is a collaboration of theorists and experimentalists with a common goal: a better understanding of QCD, the theory describing strong interactions.

Other information

How to reach me.
Phone numbers, email, etc.
My email address is: weerts@pa.msu.edu. Click here to activate from browser
Schedule :travel, meetings, etc.
My WEB work page.


Last updated on January 25, 1997 by H.Weerts weerts@pa.msu.edu