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James Pilcher Professor in Physics, Director of the Enrico Fermi Institute Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
James Pilcher is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland. ATLAS (A Toroidal Large Hadron Collider Apparatus) will help physicists answer some of the most pressing questions in particle physics today when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins operation in 2008. He is a member of the Chicago group that built the electronics for the LHC's calorimeter, which will measure the energy produced in subatomic particle reactions. Previously, Pilcher had participated in the OPAL experiment at CERN, studying the properties of subatomics particle called the W and Z bosons. The OPAL experiment concluded in 2000.
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Press releases:
University of Chicago scientists await start-up of Large Hadron Collider New Chicago-Indiana computer network prepared to handle massive data flow from world’s largest scientific experiment |
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Chronicle articles:
‘Cosmic Fireworks’ begin Saturday at lectures April 3, 2003 Center for Cosmological Physics created with $15 million grant |
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