Stan Durkin
Physics Department - The Ohio State University
Title
- Title: Professor
- Degree: Ph.D. Stanford (1981)
- Contact:
- Physics Research Building
- Physics Department
- The Ohio State University
- 191 West Woodruff Avenue
- Columbus, OH 43210
- Office: PRB 3144 Lab: PRB 3122,3121
- Fax (614)292-8621 Office (614)292-4237
- Lab (614)292-8776 (614)292-6948
Research
My research centers around the CMS experiment on the Large
Hadronic Collider at CERN. In this picture I am standing in front of one station of the Endcap Muon System for which
we designed and built a large portion of the electronics. Located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,
the LHC is presently the highest energy collider in the world. It collides two proton beams at a center-of-mass energy
of 8 TeV and will be upgraded to 14 TeV in 2013.
The LHC provides excellent opportunities to discover the
Higgs boson, a key prediction of the
Standard Model that will lead to fundamental understanding of
the origin of mass. The new energy realm opened up by the LHC could also
yield unexpected discoveries, paving the way toward our understanding of
particle physics beyond the Standard Model.