Stephen L. Olsen DOE site visit Sept 12-13, 2002

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Stephen L. OlsenDOE site visit

Sept 12-13, 2002

HEP at Hawaii

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

• 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!!)

Big News!!

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Experimental GroupOverview

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Our strategy is unchanged:

•Do excellent science

•Use 1st-rate facilities

•Maximize our impact

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Currently important HEP areas

Solar neutrino problem KamLAND

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays GLUE, ANITA, SALSA

CPV in B-meson system Belle

oscillations/ mass Super-K / K2K / KamLAND

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-problem

• Super-K + SNO = LMA solution

– Ideal for KamLAND (this month???)

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

-oscillation / -mass

• K2K consistent with Super-K

• Non 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 B0B0 system

• Asymmetries seen in B

1st observation

• EW penguin (Xs ll) 1st observation

• c’ discovered

B-tags B-tags

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%

• 58M J/ & 14M ’ events– New particles/resonances

J/pp

m(pp)

???

(2230)?

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

New directions for HEP

• Radio detection of UHE cosmic ’s– Askaryan effect verified

over 4 orders of magnitude

– New limits on diffuse

UHE cosmic ’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

• KEKB/Belle– World’s highest-Lum collider

• Super-K / KamLAND– Premier -detectors

• K2K– World’s longest beamline

• BEPC/BES – Unique energy range

• Goldstone radiotelescope• Stanford nanofab facility

• …

~1M B-mesons/day

Use 1st rate facilities

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Impact• GLUE/ FORTE /ANITA / SalSa / …

– initiator / spokesperson: Gorham

• Belle – cospokesperson: Olsen analysis coord: Browder– largest non-KEK group in Belle– ~6 of Belle’s 1st 40 papers were 100% Hawaii efforts (plus many Hawaii contributions to the others)

• BES– cospokesperson: Harris R-scan PhD stdnt: Kong

• Super-K / KamLAND– council: Learned / upmu leader: Matsuno– KamLAND calibration: Gorham / Gullian

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Further future

Pro

ject

ed L

um

2002

• Gorham is launching a new field of UHE CR detection

• Browder is a leader in the quest for Super B-factories

• Harris is co-leader of the BESIII/BEPC initiative

• We’re recruiting an Asst (Assoc?) Prof

x100

0!!

Super-B

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

– 0% overhead for postdocs

• Department machine shop– 2 full-time machinists

• ~ 50% of our computing system

Saltstack CR expt

Fishnet PC farm

Sept 12 2002 DOE Site Visit Overview Stephen L. Olsen

Summary• Fore-front scientific program

– Solar-; -oscil / -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