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Physical Society Colloquium

Interview for Faculty Position

Physics at the High Energy Frontier

Gordon Watts

University of Washington

The Tevatron accelerator, located at Fermilab, is High Energy Physics' discovery machine, and is likely to remain as such until 2007. The Tevatron had a shaky start in 2001, but recently has become much more reliable; the two large collider experiments are now accumulating data at a rapid rate. I will give a short introduction to the field of High Energy Physics, the Tevatron, and one of the two collider experiments, DZERO. I will also talk a little bit about two ongoing analyses at DZERO, a SUSY search for a neutral higgs at large tan beta, and a standard model search for single top.

Thursday, January 15th 2004, 16:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103