Research Activities and Interests
Our two-pronged approach in collider physics and table-top physics allows us to benefit from the highest end large-scale experimental methods of the LHC while at the same time investing in creative new ways to make measurements on physical systems that have largely remained invisible to direct detection. Collider physics has the gift of discovery. Given the energy scale and intensity of beams, Nature tells us all that it knows about particle interactions and new mass states. The more we can do to maximize the information context extracted from high energy particle collisions, the more likely we will be to fish out deviations or extensions to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Relic neutrino physics witness the entire history of matter and radiation in the Universe. The neutrinos are so odd-ball with respect to the rest of the matter content of the Standard Model that the possibility they couple into new sectors is still very plausible. We learn as much about the neutrino and elementary interactions when probing the relic neutrinos as we do about the thermal history of the Universe.