Reinhard Schwienhorst

Reinhard Schwienhorst
Assistant Professor
Experimental High Energy Physics
schwier AT pa.msu.edu

Office: 3241 BPS
Phone: (517) 884 5566
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
3234 Biomedical Physical Sciences
East Lansing, MI 48824-2320
USA

Teaching

Research

I am curious about what our world is made of at the smallest, most fundamental level. I am working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, together with several MSU colleagues. The CERN LHC is a proton-proton collider that is expected to reveal the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking and of particle mass. I expect it to open up the door to a deeper level of understanding of the world at the smallest scales. The ATLAS experiment has started to take data in 2009 and took a lot of data in 2010 and 2011. It 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: 3234 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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