Our group:
undergrads: Owen Biesel, David Hunt.
graduates: Jennifer Couture, Smarajit Triambak,  Anne Sallaska, Sky Sjue.
postdocs: Seth Hoedl, Dan Melconian.
faculty: Alejandro Garcia.

Research interests: Weak Interactions in the Nucleus

The Standard Model of electro-weak interactions is an effective theory that describes our understanding of Nature at as fundamental a level as we presently can. The model has many parameters (such as the masses of the elementary particles) that are input to reproduce the experimental values. We suspect there is a theory, more fundamental than the Standard Model, that could describe the behavior of Nature in a much simpler way. The Standard Model is viewed as an effective theory of a more profound (yet-to-be-discovered) theory which we would like to probe.

Our group works on experiments to search for physics beyond the Standard Model using the nucleus as a probe and on ancillary experiments to understand nuclear-physics issues related to the direct searches for new physics.