HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP Department of Physics College of William & Mary P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

Group Members

• Jeff Nelson, Associate Professor
  
• Patricia Vahle, Assistant Professor
• Micheal Kordosky, Assistant Professor
• John Kane, Emeritus Professor
  
• Morty Eckhause, Emeritus Professor
  
• Bob Welsh, Emeritus Professor
  


• Stephen Coleman, Graduate Student
• Joshua Devan, Graduate Student
• Alena Gavrilenko, Graduate Student

Opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students to join the W& M neutrino group - Contact Jeff Nelson. This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant PHY-0505417.

Current Experiments

• MINOS
• MINERVA
• NOVA

Prior Experiments

• Soudan 2
• MECO
• BNL-E-871
• BNL-E-791

Links

• Recent publications and preprints from the MINOS experiment
• Neutrino and underground science materials from the Soudan Underground Laboratory (host lab for the MINOS Far Detector - the materials are developed in part by W& M RET teachers are summer)
• Article on neutrino research at Fermilab including MINOS, NOvA, and MINERvA from the Scientific American (7/06)
• Press release on the first results in MINOS using the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab (3/06)
• Article from the CERN Courier an Journal of High Energy Physics  (4/05)
• Article from the W&M News on the W&M Neutrino Research Group (3/05)

Recent Group Members

• Dan Damiani, Technical Staff
• Ian Howley, Undergraduate; senior thesis student
• Sarah Phillips, Ph.D., Technical Staff
• Kevin Sapp, Undergraduate
• Joshua Moss, Graduate Student (graduated in 2007)
  [Currently a post-doc at Ohio State working on CMS at CERN]
• Corydon Kolodji (2007) RET
  RET teacher [Chisolm HS, MN]
• Rita Schneider (2005-2007)
  Masters Student [Currently a Master student at the W&M School of Education]
• Kelly Sassin(2006-2007)
  REU, Undergraduate Honors Thesis Student [Currently a physics graduate student at Univ. of Rochester]
• Brian Wolthuis (2006-2007)
  Undergraduate Thesis Student [Currently a medical physics master's student a Duke University]
• Meghan Snyder (2004-2006)
  Undergraduate Research Assistant, DeWilde Fellow (2004), REU Student (2005), Senior Thesis (05/06) [Currently a graduate student in aeronautical engineering at UVa]
• Dan Damiani (2005-2007)
  Undergraduate Research Assistant, DeWilde Fellow (2005), Honors Thesis (05-06), Alumni Award for Physics Research (2006); Technical staff (2006-2007) [Currently a physics graduate student at UC-Santa Cruz]
• Chad Huibregtse (2006)
  REU student from Beloit College (2006) [Currently a senior at Beloit]
• Brent Fadum RET (2006-2007)
  RET teacher [Babbitt/Embarrass HS, MN]
• Zachary Barnett (2005)
  REU student from Erskine (2005) [Currently a graduate student at Tennessee]
• Daniel East (2005)
  Undergraduate Research Assistant
• Michael Nordstrand RET (2005)
  RET teacher [Pine City HS, MN]
• Keith Bechtol (2004-2005)
  Undergraduate Research Assistant, DeWilde Fellow (2004) [Currently physics graduate student at Stanford]
• Pamela Jeppson (2004)
  REU student from Minnesota State Univ. - Morehead (2004) [Currently a technician at North Dakota State University]
• Erin DePree (2004)
  Summer student (2004) [Currently a graduate student at W&M]
• Andrew J. Norman
  Graduate student (graduated 2003) [Currently a Research Associate at Univ. of Virginia]