Progress Report to the U.S. Department of Energy, Grant DE-FG02-91ER40626: Neutrino Physics, Particle Theory and Cosmology
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
Research conducted under this grant over the past year has been driven by the impending operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and by the ongoing developments in neutrino physics and cosmology. The recent launch of the Planck satellite should have far reaching implications for cosmology in the coming years. Research topics include particle astrophysics, neutrino physics, grand unified theories, Higgs and sparticle spectroscopy, dark energy and dark matter, inflationary cosmology, and baryo/lepto-genesis. Faculty members on the grant are Stephen Barr, Thomas Gaisser, Qaisar Shafi and Todor Stanev. Ilia Gogoladze and Hasan Yuksel are the two postdoctoral scientists supported by the DOE grant. There are currently several excellent students in our research program. One of them, Mansoor Rehman, has been awarded a competitive university fellowship on which he will be supported from September 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010. Another student, Joshua Wickman, has been awarded a fellowship by the Delaware Space Grant Consortium (in affiliation with NASA), and will be supported by this fellowship from September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010. Both of these students also attended the TASI Summer School in June 2009, at which they each presented a student talk on topics in inflationary cosmology.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER40626
- OSTI ID:
- 961666
- Report Number(s):
- Progress Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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