Particle Physics and Astrophysics
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Kent Irwin
Director, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL), Professor of Physics, of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and of Photon Science
BioIrwin Group web page:
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Chao-Lin Kuo
Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. Searching/measuring primordial gravitational waves in the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) through experiments at the South Pole (BICEP and SPT), high plateaus in Tibet (AliCPT) and Atacama (Simons Observatory), as well as in space (LiteBIRD).
2. Development and applications of superconducting detector and readout systems in astrophysics, cosmology, and other areas.
3. Novel detector concepts for axion searches (https://youtu.be/UBscQSFzpLE) -
Agostino Marinelli
Associate Professor of Photon Science and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy main research interests are the physics and applications of x-ray free-electron lasers. I lead the free-electron laser R&D program at the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, where I employ new accelerator and FEL physics concepts to advance ultrafast X-ray science. Some highlights of my research are the development of attosecond x-ray free-electron lasers, and the use of advanced plasma accelerators for the generation of ultrafast radiation pulses.
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Emilio Alessandro Nanni
Associate Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and of Photon Science
BioEmilio received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2007. After graduating he worked for the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center developing non-destructive evaluation techniques for applications related to the US space program. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013 where he worked on high-frequency high-power THz sources and the development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization. His thesis was on the first photonic-band-gap gyrotron travelling wave amplifier which demonstrated record power and gain levels in the THz frequency band.
He completed his postdoc at MIT with a joint appointment in the Nuclear Reactor Lab and the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT where he demonstrated the first acceleration of electrons with optically generated THz pulses. He joined the Technology Innovation Directorate at SLAC in August of 2015 where he continues his work on high power, high-frequency vacuum electron devices; optical THz amplifiers; electron-beam dynamics; and advanced accelerator concepts. -
Michael Peskin
Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Emeritus
BioI am a theoretical physicist interested in elementary particles and the fundamental interactions. My main research interests are:
* consequences of the "Standard Model of particle physics"
* precision study of the heaviest known elementary particles - the W and Z bosons, the top quark, and the Higgs boson - to search for clues to new fundamental interactions beyond the Standard Model
* models of such new interactions, especially models with composite or strongly interacting Higgs bosons
* models for the particle that composes the dark matter of the universe
I am the author of a leading theoretical textbook in this area, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory", with Daniel Schroeder. Recently, I have written another textbook that emphasizes our experimental knowledge, "Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics".
For further information about my research activities, interests, Stanford courses, and related subjects, please see my web page: https://s3df.slac.stanford.edu/people/mpeskin/ -
- Rainer Pitthan
Affiliate, Fundamental Physics Directorate
BioPoly-math offspring and sibling of a poly-math family.
ret Stanford 1979-2005, many positions incl. Department Head
CERN Fellow 1989-1990, 1999-2001
Faculty Naval Postgraduate School 1973-1979, ran 120MeV Electron Linac
NATO Fellow 1973-1974, NSF Fellow 1974-1979
Promotion Dr. rer. nat. (Dr.Sci.)
Asst. Prof. Technical University Darmstadt, 1971-1973
Co-President Academic Senate, 1970-1972, TU Darmstadt
Central Planner TU Darmstadt 1969-1971
Pre-doctoral Research Assistant. TU Darmstadt 1967-1969
MS (Dipl.Phys.) in Technical Nuclear Physics and Reactor Tech, 1965-1967
B.S. (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry), Landgraf-Philipps-University, Marburg/Lahn, 1960-1062
1959-1973 to pay my way through college in semester breaks many jobs in construction and
industrial production
For the 4 month vocational education requirement for my BS degree I was lucky to be put through
the 1st year program of the National Apprenticeship Requirements in Tool-and-Die (Werkzeugmacher)
and Vocation Electrical Apprenticeships at the local Brown Boverie Cie (now ABB) subsidiary (Resopal).
more of a standard academic CV, see bit.ly/3g3yv5l
