Michael Strauss
Associate Professor
B.S. 1981 Biola University
Ph.D. 1988 University of California, Los Angeles
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 recent research has focused on testing various properties of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), and studying the properties of hadrons which contain a b quark.

The Tevatron is an excellent facility. With its high energy and high luminosity, we have the possibility of discovering new phenomena which may extend or supersede the Standard Model. Studies indicate that answers to fundamental questions about the nature of mass and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter may be discvovered in the near future at high energy physics laboratories. I have also been involved in testing and developing various silicon microstrip detectors used for finding particle tracks in the DØ upgrade. For years, the University of Oklahoma has been a leader in the utilization of silicon devices for high energy physics detectors and we plan on continuing this effort for the ATLAS experiment currently being built for the LHC.

In the near future, I will be conducting research with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will be collide protons together at the world's highest energy and greatest luminosity. The future potential for the discovery and observation of new and interesting phenomena in the field of elementary particles and fields looks extremely promising.

V.M. Abazov,$\ldots$M. Strauss,$\ldots$(DØ Collaboration) "Ratio of Isolated Photon Cross Sections in $p\overline{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 630$ and 1800 GeV'', Physical Review Letters 87, 251805 (2001).

B. Abbott,$\ldots$M. Strauss,$\ldots$(DØ Collaboration) "The Isolated Photon Cross Section in $p\overline{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 1.8$ TeV'', Physical Review Letters 84, 2786 (2000).

B. Abbott,$\ldots$M. Strauss,$\ldots$(DØ Collaboration) "The Inclusive Jet Cross Section in $\overline{p}p$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 1.8$ TeV'', Physical Review Letters 82, 2451 (1999).

B. Abbott,$\ldots$M. Strauss,$\ldots$(DØ Collaboration) "Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Decays of Top Quark Pairs,'', Physical Review Letters 82, 4975 (1999).

B. Abbott,$\ldots$M. Strauss,$\ldots$(DØ Collaboration) "Direct Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at DØ ,'' DØ Collaboration'', Physical Review D58, 52001 (1998).