Homer L. Dodge Department
of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma

I am currently a member of the DØ collaboration doing research in Experimental Particle Physics using the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The Tevatron, which produces the highest energy particle collisions in the world, is an excellent instrument for testing the predictions of the Standard Model of elementary particles and fields and to look for experimental deviations from those predictions. My research has focused on testing various properties of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), particularly the properties of the gluons within the proton, and studying the decay rates of mesons containing a b quark. I have also been involved in developing algorithms that find and measure the charged particle momentum and position in the DØ detector.

In the near future my research focus will move from the Tevatron at Fermilab to the newly built Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). As a member of the ATLAS collaboration, I will be looking for answers to fundamental questions about the nature of mass and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter, as well as studying various properties of the Standard Model. With the outstanding performance of the Tevatron and the ATLAS experiment coming on line soon, the future potential for the discovery and observation of new and interesting phenomena in the field of elementary particles and fields looks extremely promising.

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