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Experimental
Accelerator Physics: Design and construction of superconducting cyclotrons for heavy ions; spectrometer design; ion optics.
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics: Signal processing by the human brain.
Astronomy and Astrophysics: Solar and stellar seismology; low metallicity stars; photometry and spectroscopy of galaxies; galactic structure; star cluster metallicity and evolution; pulsating variable stars; magnetically active stars; radio interferometry of galaxies; geometrical measurements of cosmology.
Beam Theory and Dynamical Systems
Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum interference phenomena; magnetic and nonmagnetic multilayers; bulk and interface resistances; giant magnetoresistances in magnetic multilayers; dimensionality effects in spin glasses and in superconductors; x-ray diffraction; applications to biophysical systems; solubility and diffusion of liquids; coherent phenomena in disordered materials at low temperatures; scattering techniques using neutron and synchrotron sources. Members of the Condensed Matter Physics group are active in the NSF-supported Center for Sensor Materials, Institute for Quantum Sciences, Composite Materials & Structures Center, Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Initiative and more.
Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics: Hadron-induced high energy interactions; the inclusive production of jets, photons, and leptons; tests of quantum chromodynamics; the quark and gluon structure of hadrons; heavy flavor production (including studies of the top quark); tests of electroweak interactions including the production and study of W and Z bosons; design of fast electronics and computer software for event selection algorithms in high energy physics.
Nuclear physics: High-resolution nuclear reaction spectroscopy; precision nuclear mass measurement; nuclear structure; nuclei-far-from-stability; heavy-ion reaction mechanisms; giant resonances; fundamental interactions; nuclear shell model; radioactive beam physics; nuclear astrophysics. The nuclear physics group at MSU is home to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, one of the preeminent laboratories for nuclear science in the world.
Cross Disciplinary Options
For applicants interested in other areas in addition to physics and astronomy, the Department has close ties with Biochemistry, Chemistry, Engineering, Geophysics, Mathematics and a variety of other programs. At the Ph.D. level it is especially easy to include in one’s program the specialty of choice.
