Reinhard Schwienhorst

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

Office: 3234 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 will continue to accumulate data at increasing collision energies, starting at 7TeV in 2010, and reaching the design energy of 14TeV soon. I am excited for the breakthroughs in the understanding of our world that should emerge. Since 2000 my primary focus has been the DØ experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab near Chicago, Illinois. I played an important role in the single top discovery. You can read about the many subjects that I have investigated on my DØ home page.
This I believe.
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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