Research Activities

Presently my research is on on the D0 experiment at Fermilab. After a very successful Run I using D0, we are now in the process of completing a major upgrade of the D0 detector. We hope to be ready to take data in the spring of 2001. My activities have focused on the management of the upgrade (as one of the two project managers), and on the design, construction and deployment of new preamplifiers for the D0 liquid argon-uranium calorimeter (as leader of the Calorimeter subgroup). Our group of three faculty, three postdocs and five graduate students on D0 has focused on a wide array of electronics for the upgrade including the calorimeter electronics, the muon L2 trigger and the design and construction of a silicon displaced vertex trigger (STT). We ae now starting to turn our attention to the data that will soon come from Run II, where we have the potential of making significant discoveries in the areas of b-physics, QCD, Standard Model physics of the Top quark, the W and Z Bosons, and of New Phenomena and particle searches. The next few years will be an exciting time at D0.