Professor Zhou is currently leading the research project of the U.S. ATLAS muon detector development and construction for CERN’s new Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ATLAS detector will be used to study the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism with very high-energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The exciting physics program of the LHC is expected to start in 2007, which will provide great discovery potential in particle physics.

Physicists including graduate students from the University of Michigan have participated in the design and construction of the ATLAS experiment, particularly, the largest precision muon spectrometer. They carried out many detailed physics studies to determine the discovery sensitivities with the ATLAS detector for many new physics processes. They have had, and will continue to have a large impact on the ATLAS experiment that has the largest international collaboration in the world. Professor Zhou’s graduate students have worked on their Ph.D. research topics in different colliding beam experiments to study the electroweak symmetry breaking. In recent years, her students participated in the design and construction for the quality control test stations for the ATLAS muon detector mass production at the University of Michigan. They also worked on the DZERO experiment at Fermilab to perform precision measurements of the parameters predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

In coming years, the DZERO experiment at the Tevatron Collider and the ATLAS experiment at the LHC will provide us with most frontier particle physics opportunities to study the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism to greatly advance our understanding of elementary particle physics.

Professor Zhou is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Large Precision Muon Detector for ATLAS, (B. Zhou), Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A 494, 464 (2002).

Direct Measurement of the W Boson Decay Width with the DZERO Experiment, by DZERO Collaboration (V. Abazov et al.), Physical Review D 66, 032008 (2002).

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Bosson in e⁺ e^- Interactions at the Center of Mass Energy of 183 GeV, by L3 Collaboration (M. Acciarri et al.), Phys. Lett. B 431, 437 (1998).

The L3 Radiation Monitor, (S. Ahlen et al.), Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 369, 92 (1996).

Search for the SM Higgs at LEP with the L3 Detector, (Bing Zhou), DPF (World Scientific) 1, 467 (1993).

Searches for Non-Minimal Higgs Bosons in ZØ Decays, (L3 Collaboration), Z. Phys. C 57, 355 (1993).