HEP at Hawaii Stephen L Olsen DOE site

HEP at Hawaii Stephen L. Olsen DOE site visit Sept 12 -13, 2002 Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Big News!! • Kirill Melnikov joins theory group – replaces San Fu Tuan • Hirotaka Sugawara joins in April – Dai Ho Chun Chair • Peter Gorham wins an OJI – ANITA is approved (and funded!!) Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Experimental Group Overview Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Our strategy is unchanged: • Do excellent science st • Use 1 -rate facilities • Maximize our impact Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Currently important HEP areas § Solar neutrino problem § Kam. LAND § Ultra-high energy cosmic rays § GLUE, ANITA, SALSA § CPV in B-meson system § Belle § n oscillations/n mass § Super-K / K 2 K / Kam. LAND § Precision tests of SM § R measurements from BES Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Hawaii plays an important role in each of these areas Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Solar n-problem • Super-K + SNO = LMA solution – Ideal for Kam. LAND (this month? ? ? ) Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

n-oscillation / n-mass • K 2 K consistent with Super-K • Non nm-nt oscillation scenarios ruled out • All citation records are held by Super-K!! Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

B-meson physics with Belle • CPV established in B 0 B 0 system • Asymmetries seen in B p+p 1 st observation B-tags • EW penguin (Xs l+l-) 1 st observation • hc’ discovered Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

R-scan and J/ & ’ physics (BES) • Completed R-scan analysis – Factor of ~3 improved precision – MHiggsup by 50% ? ? ? • 58 M J/ & 14 M ’ events J/ pp – New particles/resonances (2230)? m(pp) Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

New directions for HEP • Radio detection of UHE cosmic n’s – Askaryan effect verified over 4 orders of magnitude – New limits on diffuse UHE cosmic n’s – ANITA approved Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

New types of radiation detectors • 3 -dim pixel detectors for LHC/NLC – 3 -d sensors work – They’re fast & rad hard – ADRP award – Important non-HEP applications e. g. Molecular Biology Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Use st 1 rate facilities ~1 M B-mesons/day • KEKB/Belle – World’s highest-Lum collider • Super-K / Kam. LAND – Premier n-detectors • K 2 K – World’s longest n beamline • BEPC/BES – Unique energy range • Goldstone radiotelescope • Stanford nanofab facility • … Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Impact • GLUE/ FORTE /ANITA / Sal. Sa / … – initiator / spokesperson: Gorham • Belle – cospokesperson: Olsen analysis coord: Browder – largest non-KEK group in Belle – ~6 of Belle’s 1 st 40 papers were 100% Hawaii efforts (plus many Hawaii contributions to the others) • BES – cospokesperson: Harris R-scan Ph. D stdnt: Kong • Super-K / Kam. LAND – council: Learned / upmu leader: Matsuno – Kam. LAND calibration: Gorham / Gullian Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Further future • Harris is co-leader of the BESIII/BEPC initiative Super-B x 1000!! • Browder is a leader in the quest for Super B-factories Projected Lum • Gorham is launching a new field of UHE CR detection 2002 • We’re recruiting an Asst (Assoc? ) Prof Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Experimental Faculty/Staff • State supported: (8 faculty) – Learned & Matsuno (full 11 month salaries) – Browder, Gorham, Harris, Olsen, Peters + 1 • DOE supported: (2 faculty) – Jones & Parker • Research Associates (6) – Guillian, Lehtinen, Seuster, Trabelsi, Zheng + 2 • Graduate students (8) • Technical Support (~2. 5 FTE’s) – Ibaraki, Rosen, Varner They’re back!! Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

University support (HEP-exp) • 8 faculty salaries – 11 months for Learned & Matsuno • Reduced teaching loads – 0 for Matsuno, ~50% for Olsen • High-quality lab space • Start-up funds • Off-campus overhead Saltstack CR expt – 0% overhead for postdocs • Department machine shop – 2 full-time machinists • ~ 50% of our computing system Sept 12 2002 Fishnet PC farm DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Summary • Fore-front scientific program – Solar-n; n-oscil / n-mass; CPV; SM tests; UHE cosmic rays • Talented & productive team – Responsible for important papers/analyses • High impact – Responsible for major initiatives; leaders in our collaborations • Innovative – 3 -dim pixels; radio detection of UHE showers; … • Well supported by the University – Salary support + equipment + reasonable overhead rates • Promising future – Browder & Gorham have emerged as important HEP leaders Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen