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Physics at Arizona

Physics at Arizona. The Physics Department has productive research areas spanning from quarks to the cosmos. Physics at Arizona. AMO (Atomic, molecular, and optical physics) Using atom waves and ultrafast lasers to study atomic and molecular phenomena Applied Physics

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Physics at Arizona

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  1. Physics at Arizona The Physics Department has productive research areas spanning from quarks to the cosmos

  2. Physics at Arizona AMO (Atomic, molecular, and optical physics) Using atom waves and ultrafast lasers to study atomic and molecular phenomena Applied Physics Leading solar panel research and development at TEP Astrophysics Understanding the physics of black holes and neutron stars Biophysics Building molecular motors to do mechanical work Chemical Physics Cross-disciplinary research at the interface of physics and chemistry Condensed matter Investigating molecular electronics, spintronics, nanomaterials and unconventional superconductors Nuclear physics Predicting properties of quark-gluon plasma and developing new theoretical approaches to the nuclear force Particle physics Searching for Higgs bosons and dark matter candidates at the LHC

  3. UA Physics News

  4. Arizona Daily Star March 14 2009 Hunting the Higgs Boson UA gives 'God particle' hunt more than a prayer The hunt for a mysterious subatomic fragment nicknamed the "God particle" is heating up, due in part to the work of a UA scientist. Physicists say finding the theoretical particle — called the Higgs boson — is a critical step toward understanding nothing short of how matter exists in the universe. "It's the missing piece of the puzzle," saidErich Varnes, a University of Arizona associate professor of physics.

  5. New York Times February 24 2009 The Formation of Red Tide OBSERVATORY Behind Red Tides, the Swimming and Shape of Plankton Just how those plankton layers form has been unclear. Now in a paper in Science, William M. Durham and Roman Stocker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John O. Kessler of the University of Arizonahave shown that plankton’s swimming and shape play a role.

  6. CERN Courier February 23 2009 Compact Particle Accelerators Rapid advances in high-intensity laser technology are closing in on the technological breakthrough of a compact particle accelerator, and with it a new means to study the structure of the vacuum. Gérard Mourou, Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona)and Toshiki Tajima explain.

  7. Arizona Daily Star March 1 2009 Carbon Dating at the AMS Lab Statue's age a surprise St. Augustine Cathedral crucifix could date to A.D. 1155 Timothy Jull, a professor of geosciences and physics, tested the textile by using what's called radiocarbon dating. The process entails extracting carbon from the sample by burning it to get carbon dioxide. Then the carbon dioxide is converted into graphite, and its radiocarbon content is measured. "The crucifix is made of some plaster material on textile, so we sampled the textile," Jull wrote in an e-mail. The results: The statue is 95 percent likely to have been crafted between A.D. 1155 and A.D. 1389.

  8. Physics Today February 2009 Preparing High School Physics Teachers By taking on a significant part of the education of high school physics teachers, physics departments in the US can inspire their students and help insure a scientifically educated population Program at UA led by Ingrid Novodvorsky

  9. World-wide press September 10 2008 ATLAS at the LHC UA research at the LHC aligns with many Grand Challenges

  10. Applied Physics Research at the TEP Solar Test Yard Physics faculty and students study the performance of grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) systems

  11. Collaboration with Optical Sciences UA Scientists Discover Quantum Mechanical 'Hurricanes' Form Spontaneously University of Arizona scientists experimenting with some of the coldest gases in the universe have discovered that when atoms in the gas get cold enough, they can spontaneously spin up into what might be described as quantum mechanical twisters or hurricanes. Brian Anderson of UA Optical Sciences and Physics - Nature 455, 948 (2008)

  12. Collaboration with LPL Only Solar Systems with Jupiters May Harbor Life, UA Scientist Says Jupiter-like planets flinging Mars-sized objects toward their sun-like stars would deliver the water needed for carbon-based terrestrial life, saidProfessor Jonathan I. Lunine of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, chair of the UA Theoretical Astrophysics Program.

  13. Collaboration with Astronomy Milky Way black Hole May Be A Colossal Particle Accelerator For the last several years, Melia has been developing a theory of what may be going on very close to the Milky Way's black hole. Melia and his group find that powerful, chaotic magnetic fields accelerate protons and other particles near the black hole to extremely high energies. Fulvio Melia of UA Astronomy and Physics

  14. Collaboration with Astronomy Taking movies of the universe with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) The LSST will image an area of the sky 50 times that of the full moon every 15 s for a ten year period! The result will be a 3D map of the universe of unprecedented depth and detail. We will use weak lensing techniques in order to test models of dark energy and even gravitation itself. Elliott Cheu and Ken Johns of UA Physics and Phil Pinto of Astronomy

  15. Collaboration with Chemistry Chemical physics – Stepping into the future The new program in Chemical Physics explores exciting interdisciplinary research at the boundary of physics and chemistry. The encompassing fields are wide ranging: from Nanoscience to Astrochemistry to Biological Physics. Alex Cronin, Brian Leroy, Srin Manne Sumit Mazumdar, Arvinder Sandhu, Charles Stafford, and Koen Visscher of UA Physics

  16. Recent Faculty Honors in Research • Sean Fleming • Department of Energy OJI Award • Don Huffman • Regents Professor, HP Europhysics Prize and other awards • Brian Leroy • NSF CAREER Grant • Fulvio Melia • Galileo Circle Scholar • Pierre Meystre • Regents Professor • Sumit Mazumdar • Henry and Phyllis Koffler Research and Scholarship Prize • Arvinder Sandhu • NSF CAREER Grant • Bira van Kolck • Department of Energy OJI Award and Sloan Fellowship 16

  17. NSF CAREER for Brian Leroy For investigation of electron transport in carbon nanostructures using scanning probe microscopy NSF CAREER for Arvinder Sandhu For investigation of attosecond dynamics in atoms and molecules using XUV+IR spectroscopy Recent Faculty Honors in Research

  18. Recent Faculty Honors in Teaching • Physics Department • University Teaching Award for Meritorious Departmental Achievement in Instruction • Bill Bickel • University Distinguished Professor and COS Distinguished Advising Award • Elliott Cheu • COS Innovation in Teaching and COS Advising Awards • Leon and Pauline Blitzer Award • Alex Cronin • Henry and Phyllis Koffler Teaching Prize (and other university teaching awards) • Keith Dienes • University Distinguished Early Career Teaching Award 18

  19. Recent Faculty Honors in Teaching • Doug Donahue • COS Career in Distinguished Teaching Award • J.D. Garcia • COS Distinguished Achievement in Science Education • K.C. Hsieh • El Paso Energy Foundation Faculty Achievement Award • Don Huffman • COS Career Distinguished Teaching Award and El Paso Energy Foundation Faculty Achievement Award • Srin Manne • COS Distinguished Teaching Award • Ingrid Novodvorsky • DOEd Modeling Instruction Program citation 19

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