physics.cooleysekula.net

An exploration of the science behind cooleysekula.net

What is physics?

Physics is the study of energy, matter, space, and time. It's a branch of science that deals with theories and observations about the structure of the universe, its origin, and the laws that govern its behavior.

Where we work

Jodi Cooley is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Physics at Southern Methodist University. She is a collaborator on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) and the next-generation SuperCDMS experiment.

Notable Quotable: "As cold as it gets in Minnesota during the winter, joked Cooley, it’s still not cold enough for the cryogenics of their experiment." [" Physicists Adopt Complementary Approaches in Dark Matter Search ", APS News, June 2008]

Steve Sekula is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Physics at Southern Methodist University. He is a collaborator on the BaBar experiment, based at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and a collaborator on the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Notable Quotable: "'I look for things that are expected to be really rare in nature,' he says. 'If they're not, it tells us something about the universe.'" [U.S. Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics Website, Electron-Accelerator Based Physics]

Current Research

The search for the nature of dark matter (Jodi)
High-energy subatomic particle physics (Steve)

Activities

"Bottomonium and Exotic Hadrons", presented at Physics in Collision, 2011 (Steve Sekula)
"Dark Matter Direct Detection - CDMS" (Jodi Cooley, presented at Rencontres de Blois 2011

In the News

Resources

CDMS Homepage
The BaBar Public Homepage
The ATLAS Experiment

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