Reinhard Schwienhorst

Reinhard Schwienhorst
Associate Professor
Experimental High Energy Physics
Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
schwier AT pa.msu.edu

Office: 3241 BPS
Phone: (517) 884 5566
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
3241 Biomedical and Physical Sciences
567 Wilson Road
East Lansing, MI 48824-2320
USA

Teaching

Spring semester 2007, spring semester 2008, fall semester 2008, fall semester 2012, spring semester 2013: Physics 184, physics for scientists & engineers, part II.
Fall semester 2007: Physics 251, laboratory course.
Spring semester 2010, spring semester 2011, fall semester 2011: Physics 440, Electronics.
Fall semester 2010: Physics 252, laboratory course.

Research

I am curious about what our world is made of at the smallest, most fundamental level. I am a particle physicist, exploring the energy frontier, studying the laws of nature at the highest energies together with my MSU colleagues and collaborators from around the world on the ATLAS experiment at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The CERN LHC is a proton-proton collider that is expected to discover new particles and reveal physics at the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. ATLAS and CMS found the Higgs boson in 2012 and will continue to accumulate data at increasing collision energies. I am excited for the breakthroughs in the understanding of our world that should emerge. I work in the top group on single top quark production and in the exotics group on Z' searches in the dilepton final state.
Together with a team of very talented MSU students, we have produced a planetarium show on the LHC and ATLAS, running at the Abrams planetarium at MSU and possibly coming to a planetarium near you.
I have been on the DØ experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab near Chicago, Illinois since 2000. I was co-convener of the analysis group that discovered single-top quark production. You can read about the many subjects that I have investigated on my DØ home page.

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How to pronounce my name: Professor Schwienhorst (auf Deutsch) and Reinhard Schwienhorst (auf Deutsch).

Contact Information:

MSU: Office: 3241 BPS, phone: (517) 884-5566.
Cern: Office: 32-2-B03, phone: +41 22 76 71756.
Fermilab: Office: DØ trailer 173, phone: (630) 840 6811.
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