Prof. Saltzberg has worked at the energy frontier of proton colliders since 1989. He currently collaborates at UCLA with Profs. Cousins, Hauser and Bachtis on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment located at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Over the years, Prof. Saltzberg has analyzed the data to yield insights into the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces, he probed the then-newly top quark (which remains the most massive known elementary particle to this day) for anomalous properties, and he searched for physics beyond the so-called Standard Model of particle physics. He worked with UCLA Prof. Bern to test new calculations of events produced by Quantum Chromodynamics which are often the largest obstacle to discovering "new physics."

He is currently working with his UCLA colleagues to discover what could be the heaviest known particle, with a mass exceeding a tera-electron volt and perhaps reveal partners to the Higgs Boson. Over the years, his group has built electronics for fast event selection, detector alignment monitors, and new gas-based muon detectors.