Particle Physics Research is carried out at Hampton University under the Center for the study of the Origin
and Structure of Matter (COSM), located in the Armstrong-Slater building and the Graduate Physics Reasearch Center
on campus. The high energy research group consists of COSM Director Kenneth McFarlane, faculty members Vassilis
Vassilikopoulos and Eric Christie, post-doctoral fellow Taeksu Shin, senior technician Chuck Long, and a group of
graduate students.
The main effort in experimental
particle physics at Hampton in on ATLAS; inner detector drift tube modules for ATLAS were fabricated and tested at Hampton in
collaboration with Indiana University, Duke University, and the University of Pennsylvania. These modules comprise the ATLAS
Transition Radiation Tracker, which will accurately track charged particles emerging from collisions in ATLAS and the Large Hadron
Collider.
COSM is also home to a Tier 3 cluster on the Virtual Data Grid that will be used to analyze data from the ATLAS detector. Current
work is centered on detecting the signatures of Randall-Sundrum gravitons in ATLAS.
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Christian Rudolph