News and Events
Heavy Z's and Black Holes
Mar. 6, 2008
Research by UMass Profs. Stephane Willocq and Carlo Dallapiccola is featured in this week's "In the Loop"
newsletter.
The experiment they work on, the Atlas Experiment at CERN, is expected to answer a number of fundamental questions about the nature of matter, in particular how particles acquire mass. Atlas, set to begin data taking this year, is located at the 27-kilometer LHC storage ring in Geneva where billions of protons will travel close to the speed of light and generate one billion collisions per second. Prof. Willocq proposes to use the Atlas data to search for
evidence of heavy Z bosons, while Prof. Dallapiccola hopes to search for
evidence of microscopic black holes.
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Gravity Wave Research Featured
Feb. 21, 2008
Gravity wave research by UMass Prof. Laura Cadonati is featured in this
week's "In the Loop"
newsletter.
The experiment she works on, the Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (a.k.a. LIGO), hopes to detect the tiny distortions of spacetime caused by gravity waves passing by the Earth. These waves stretch or compress space by less than the diameter of a proton over a 4 km distance. Cadonati and her group at UMass are analyzing recent data from LIGO
to search for the gravity waves caused by coallescing black holes.
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2008 Research Symposium
Feb. 8, 2008
The department hosts its annual symposium on "Research Opportunities
for Graduate Students". The talks provide an overview of the research
activities in the department and of related research outside the department.
Copies of presentations are available online.
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Upcoming Seminars
High Energy/Nuclear Lunch
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| TBA |
| Satya Mohapatra |
| Tue, May 13 at LGRT 1033 Lounge |
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