Prof. Wilson visits government and university officials in the country of Georgia

In October 2019, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, Giorgi Vashakidze  met with the heads of the DUNE experiment, including CSU’s Bob Wilson. The meeting was also attended by the Rector of Georgian Technical University, Archil Prangishvili, Director of GTU Institute of Quantum Physics and Engineering Technologies Arsen Khvedelidze and Deputy Director Prof. …

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CSU Part of DOE Advanced Scientific Computing HEP Project

Feynam computing center

Prof. Norm Buchanan of the Colorado State University Physics Department is part of a new team centered at Fermilab National Lab funded to develop new high-performance computing tools for use in high-energy physics (HEP). The SciDAC-4 (Data Analytics on HPC) project will project bring together HEP and ASCR (Advanced Scientific Computing Research) scientists from P5-critical …

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NOvA appearance and disappearance results submitted for publication.

NOvA’s latest appearance and disappearance results, corresponding to 6.05E20 POT) have been submitted for publication. Both results are posted to the HEP archives ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.05891.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03328.pdf ). The results utilize the first two years of neutrino (forward horn current) operation. The appearance results show a slight preference for normal mass hierarchy and delta_CP around …

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ICARUS cryostat and detector finally reunited

ICARUS cryostat and detector finally reunited The CSU group is working to develop the cosmic ray tagger that will almost completely surround the two ICARUS T600 cryostats after installation at Fermilab.

Prof. Norm Buchanan Awarded $514,000 for Continued Development of Photon Detection System for DUNE

Prof. Norm Buchanan has been awarded $514k for the next year to continue development of the photon detection system for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Buchanan’s group is responsible for the engineering as well as quality assurance and quality control of the photon detection system. Senior engineer David Warner is the system engineer and …

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Bob Wilson Elected Chair of the DUNE Collaboration

CSU professor Bob Wilson has been elected chair of the Institutional Board that oversees the 897-member Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) collaboration with scientists and engineers from 154 institutions in 29 countries.  He will also be a member of the Executive Committee, which is responsible for setting scientific and technical objectives and priorities of the …

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NOvA Shines New Light on the Way that Neutrinos Behave

The latest NOvA results show indications that the muon and tau flavor states may not maximally mix and that the third neutrino mass state is dominated by one or the other. The result corresponds to about one sixth of NOvA’s expected data set. Data collected over the next year should firm up the measurement. The …

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Latest T2K Results May Hint at Matter over Anti-Matter Make up of the Universe

The T2K collaboration has released new results that may indicate neutrinos and anti-neutrinos oscillate differently. Two articles describing the exciting result can be found in ScienceDaily   and International Business Times. The T2K public website contains public information and T2K scientific publications.

CSU Neutrino Research Highlighted in Source

Prof. Walter Toki and Prof. Norm Buchanan are working on competing neutrino experiments, T2K and NOvA, respectively. New results from these experiments have been highlighted in recent headlines and in a recent CSU Source publication. Check it out!

Open Position: Physics Design and Technical Support

The High-Energy Physics group in the Department of Physics is seeking a engineer or physicist with demonstrated technical abilities in mechanical design, implementation, and testing. To view the position and/or apply see here.