Professor Michael S. Gold
Ph.D. 1986: University of California, Berkeley
Contact me:
email: mgold@unm.edu
- office rm 1111 277-2086
- lab 1 rm 131 277-3604
- lab 2 rm 125 277-3263
Dr. Gold is a high energy physics experimentalist. For the
past ten
years he has collaborated on the Collider
Detector at
Fermilab (CDF) located just outside of Chicago, Illinois. CDF
is
one
of two large, multisystem particle detectors operating at the
proton-antiproton storage ring, Tevatron Collider at Fermilab. The Tevatron
is the world's
most powerful particle accelerator, and consequently will remain the
particle physics frontier well into the next decade. Dr.
Gold's
research interests are in searches for exotic particles and
in the
development and application of silicon microstrip detectors. The CDF
silicon-microstrip detector was crucial for the recent discovery of the
sixth and heaviest quark, top
.
Quarks are the fundamental building blocks of all matter in the
universe. The reason for the great mass of the top quark, nearly 40
times heavier than the next heaviest quark and equal to that of an
entire gold atom, remains a mystery. Answers to this and other
mysteries will be sought at Fermilab's upcoming Collider Run II
now
collecting
data!
By colliding particles at high energies, we reproduce
conditions at
the dawn of the universe, the big bang, which occured some 15 Billion
years ago. Properties of the elementary particles, such as the top
quark, reveal secrets of the evolution of the universe.
Courses, Spring
2008:
Past Courses:
Physics
for
Poets (fall 2007)
500
Seminar, Fall 2007:
NUPAC(Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmological Physics
Introduction
to Nuclear and Particle Physics (spring 2007)
307L
Junior
Lab
500
Seminar, Fall 2006:
NUPAC(Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmological Physics
General
Physics II
Introduction
to Modern Physics (phys 330)
Introduction
to Nuclear and Particle Physics (Spring 2005)
Introduction to
Particle Physics I
Intermediate
Quantum Mechanics I
Intermediate
Quantum Mechanics II
500
Seminar,
Fall '00: current topics in particle physics, astroparticle physics,
and cosmology
500
Seminar,
Fall '01: current topics in particle physics, astroparticle physics,
and cosmology
500
Seminar,
Spring '02: Topics in Hadron Collider Physics
500
Seminar,
Fall '02: current topics in particle physics, astroparticle physics,
and cosmology
500
Seminar,
Spring 2004: current topics in particle, astroparticle, and cosmology
500
Seminar,
Fall 2004: current topics in particle, astroparticle, and cosmology
500
Seminar,
Spring 2005:
current topics in particle, astroparticle, and cosmology
Introduction
to
Quantum Field Theory: A Guided Self-Study
Resarch
All
about
elementary particle physics
CDF II at
Fermilab
Atlas
at CERN
New Mexico
Center for
Particle Physics
Dark
Matter
Useful links
physical review
letters
PARTICLE DATA (PDG)
LANL preprint
archive
Physics and
Astronomy Department
GNU debugger
dictionary
latex online