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Professor Thun is participating in the preparation of the ATLAS detector with the goal of studying proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC facility. The LHC, when completed in 2007, will provide the highest beam energies and intensities ever achieved by a large particle accelerator. This may open an entirely new frontier of high-energy physics, including the possible detection and study of the elusive Higgs particle.
Prior to his current involvement with ATLAS, Professor Thun participated in experiments at Brookhaven National Lab, CERN, Fermilab, and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. These experiments included searches for new particles, studies of high-energy protonproton, proton-antiproton and electron-positron collisions, and pioneering measurements of Z-boson and top quark properties.
Professor Thun is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Selected Publications
Interpreting the Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly, (R. P. Thun and S. McKee), Phys. Lett. B 439, 123-129 (1998).
Evidence for Top Quark Production in Antiproton-Proton Collisions at C.M. Energy = 1.8 TEV, (F. Abe et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 225-231 (1994).
Initial Measurements of Z Boson Resonance Parameters in e+e- Annihilation, (G. S. Abrams et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 724-727 (1989).
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