Peter Koch, 9 September 2008

Physics & Astronomy – Our Community

Another Friday afternoon (29 August 2008)

A Friday afternoon (17 August 2007) DepartmentDepartment StaffStaff

Peter Koch, Chair Pam Burris, Assistant to the Chair

Laszlo Mihaly, Graduate Program Director Pat Peiliker, Assistant Graduate Program Director

Phil Allen, Undergraduate Program Director Elaine Larsen, Assistant Undergraduate Program Director

Bob Segnini, Director of Physical Laboratories Rich Berscak, Building Manager

Sara Lutterbie, Business Officer Maria Hofer, Main Office Diane Diaferia, Main Office

Joe Feliciano and Frank Chin, Instructional Laboratories Chuck Pancake and Gene Shafto, Electronics Center Walt Schmeling and crew, Machine Shop Sal Natale, Receiving Since 1999 we have been “fenced in” to our building when some bricks fell off the façade. The ~2 M$ fix to the roof and bricks has been completed.

HELP!

Removal of the scaffolding and fencing around the building is now underway !!!

The “fixing the concrete deck” project is now out for bid. Start/completion date: ??? thanks to Sara Lutterbie for making this slide New faculty

Stan Metchev, observational astronomer, just joined us as Assistant Professor. He was a Spitzer Postdoc at UCLA.

Stan’s research focuses on understanding the physical properties and dynamical evolution of extrasolar planetary systems and brown dwarfs - objects with intermediate characteristics between those of stars and gas giant planets.

Stan uses the high-contrast imaging capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics systems to resolve protoplanetary disks around young stars. Resolved images of such circumstellar disks allow us to study the formation and architectures of extrasolar planetary systems.

Stan uses sensitive optical to infrared spectroscopy to characterize the atmospheres of brown dwarfs at all ages. The chemical composition and physical structure of brown dwarf atmospheres are not unlike those of gas giant planets in the Solar System, thus allowing us to project the properties of extrasolar giant planets expected to be imaged in the next few years. From Brown Dwarfs to Giant Planets

stars brown dwarfs planets • brown dwarfs: Sun – properties intermediate (G dwarf) M dwarfL dwarf T dwarf Jupiter between those of stars and planets – a key step toward understanding the 5600 K ~3500 K ~2000 K ~1000 K 160 K atmospheres of extrasolar giant planets – detectable 0.76 µm 0.91 µm 1. as isolated objects via (F star) their peculiar colors brown dwarf 2. as faint companions to (not detected) brown dwarf stars 1.20 µm 2.15 µm • extrasolar giant planets: – will be directly visible size of Pluto’s orbit Image from Keck with next-generation 10m telescope adaptive optics-equipped 1. free-floating brown dwarf 2. brown dwarf companion telescopes (imaged at 4 wavelengths) (imaged using adaptive optics) New faculty

Jin Koda, extragalactic astrophysics, will join us as Assistant Professor in Jan. 2009. He is now a Senior Postdoc at Caltech.

The primary goal of Jin’s research is to understand the gas dynamical evolution of galactic disks, with an emphasis on interstellar medium evolution and star formation.

Jin is an expert in millimeter-wavelength observations and often performs numerical simulations. He is leading the survey of molecular gas in nearby galaxies using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Astronomy (CARMA) in the Inyo Mountains of California.

Jin is a member of the key science project of the ESA Herschel Space Observatory (launch expected 2009) that will investigate star formation in galactic gas dynamics via the Whirlpool Galaxy M51) observations in the far-IR and sub-mm ranges. New faculty

Dmitri Tsybychev, experimental high- energy physics, will join us as Assistant Professor in Jan. 2009. He recently transitioned from D-Zero at the FNAL Tevatron to ATLAS at the CERN LHC and is now Research Assistant Professor.

The focus of Dmitri’s research is the understanding of the source of electroweak symmetry breaking and CP-symmetry violation.

He has joined the ATLAS experiment at CERN Large Hadron Collider to search for fundamental scalar particles - the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles.

High energy physicists hope that this new machine at the energy frontier will allow them to make a breakthrough in understanding the nature of matter and the relationship between the fundamental forces.

He is involved in development of novel type detectors based on semiconductor technology to select and study rare processes in hadron collisions. A Higgs boson event as (would be) seen by the ATLAS detector Faculty news

Welcome back to faculty members on leave during last academic year:

Dima Averin (fall) Rod Engelmann (fall, spring)

Bon (or continuing) voyage to faculty members on leave during this academic year: Concha Gonzalez-Garcia (fall) Bob McCarthy (fall, spring) Gilad Perez (fall, spring) Deane Peterson (fall) Tom Weinacht (fall)

Good luck to our colleagues who retired Bob McGrath – (2007) after ~ a decade as Provost and four decades in our department Michal Simon – (2008) remains active as Research Professor after 39 years in our dept. Amos Yahil – (2008) after 31 years in our department or to colleagues who resigned to take other positions Aaron Evans – (2007) to NRAO and UVa Astronomy Dept. In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor Phil Solomon

Our Stony Brook faculty colleague of three and one-half decades, Distinguished Professor Phil Solomon, passed away on 30 April 2008 after a bout with cancer.

Phil gained an international reputation for a series of observations/investigations on the presence of light molecules and their role in the Galaxy, atmospheres of stars and planets, interstellar molecular clouds, and the earth’s atmosphere. He participated in many of the discoveries of millimeter wave astronomy, and focused primarily on the role of carbon monoxide (CO), using it to discover and map giant molecular clouds. Another favorite molecule was the chlorine monoxide (CIO), but this time in the earth’s atmosphere, in particular in the stratosphere, where it plays an important role in the formation and destruction of ozone. Phil published more than 160 papers and supervised 7 PhD students, 6 at Stony Brook. He served on numerous review, visiting, and advisory panels and received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1989. Faculty news

Phil Allen, Tom Bergeman, Fred Goldhaber, Barry McCoy, Hal Metcalf, & Ed Shuryak received Outstanding Referee Awards from American Physical Society

Ilan Ben Zvi elected Fellow of AAAS and received IEEE/NPSS Merit Award

Abhay Deshpande named Deputy Group Leader, Experimental Division, RIKEN BNL Research Center

Steve Dierker led NSLS-II project at BNL through “Critical Decision 2” of DOE

Axel Drees named Assoc. Dean (Operations & Budget) in College of Arts and Sciences

Fred Goldhaber & Tom Kuo received departmental Outstanding Teaching Awards

Barbara Jacak elevated to Distinguished Professor by SUNY Board of Trustees. She continues as Spokesperson of PHENIX collaboration of ~ 500 scientists working at BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Faculty news

Jim Lattimer awarded Glidden Visiting Professorship at Ohio Univ. for 2008-2010

Michael Marx appointed Assoc. Vice Pres. for Brookhaven Laboratory Affairs

Clark McGrew promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Laszlo Mihaly received Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Director

Peter Paul will be handed the Merit Cross First Class of the Republic of Germany on 6 Oct. 2008 by the German President at his residence in Berlin

Derek Teaney selected as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow

Tom Weinacht promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Some fall-semester undergraduate course enrollments

4 yrs. ago 3 yrs. ago 2 yrs. ago 1 yr. ago “now” Delta AST101 161 113 179 190 165 -15 AST105 266 265 220 257 266 +11 AST248 225 239 140 216 173 -43 PHY113 50 50 50 50 74 +24 PHY121 426 523 661 677 666 -11 PHY122 150 144 135 162 132 -30 PHY131 270 293 308 309 333 +24 PHY132 59 81 72 72 83 +11 PHY125 98 137 151 164 191 +27 PHY126 81 72 96 104 106 +2 subtotal 2188 -12

PHY300 22 38 15 20 22 +2 PHY301+571 31 31 37 30 38 +8 PHY303+573 28 38 38 27 46 +19

PHY and AST intro. course enrollments are still increasing, but less so. Higher-level courses fluctuate. The number of senior majors is small; the number of sophomore and junior majors is up sharply. Our new effort in undergraduate education: the CRI A 12 June 2007 memo entitled Course Redesign Initiative was sent by SUNY Provost Risa Palm to all SUNY Presidents. Sent down the chain of command to chairs, its first two paragraphs said it all to this chair: I am pleased to announce the SUNY Course Redesign Initiative (SUNY-CRI). We want to encourage faculty in departments that have large-enrollment, multi-section courses to consider re-designing them using technology-supported active learning strategies. The goal is to achieve improvements in learning outcomes as well as reductions in instructional costs.

During the 2007-2008 academic year, the program expects to award 10 departmental grants of $40,000 for activities over the 3-year period of the initiative. We are limiting participation to departments-only; that is, we will not accept applications from individual faculty, but instead the entire department will have to agree to experiment with the course re-design.

Faculty, staff, and administrators involved in (teaching) the CRI of PHY 121/3 and PHY 122/4:

Core from P&A: Phil Allen, Pam Burris, Frank Chin, Matt Dawber, Abhay Deshpande, Axel Drees, Adam Durst, Rod Engelmann, Joe Feliciano, Erle Graf, Peter Koch, Elaine Larsen, Kim-Kwee Ng, Deane Peterson, Dean Schamberger, Bob Segnini, Peter Stephens. 40 k$ SUNY CRI Award won on 16 May 2008. The Department has already invested significant resources of its own.

TL+T personnel: Stanley Chan, Nancy Duffrin, Matt Froehlich, Graham Glynn, Paul St. Denis, Gary Van Sise. So far, supplied 60 computers for our rehab of 2 teaching labs + 2 new servers + more.

University administrators: Peter Baigent, Eric Kaler, Roy Lacey, Jim Staros. Helped grease the ways. Undergraduate Bachelor degrees, 2007-8

Dec 2007

Tomouki Manabe Stephen Mancuso Hubert Krysiak Warren Miller

May 2008

Peter Agcaian Graduate Program in Physics, CCNY Keith Altman Lawyer Edwin Aquino High School Science Teaching Bartosz Bogucki Working in Schneble Lab, taking PHY 580 as SPD student Christina Bunker Museum work; plans on pursuing an MAT degree Sun Jun Chin Goldman Sachs Manneli Derakhshani UCLA, Ph.D Program in Physics Kevin Donahue University of Oregon, PhD Program in Math Zeng Fan Plans to go to grad school in the near future Undergraduate Bachelor degrees, 2007-8, cont.

May 2008, cont.

Michael Felder Seeking employment Brendan Freeman Stony Brook MAT in Teaching Program Christopher Galloway Seeking employment Armin Ghiam Brendan Keller UC Santa Barbara Jonathan Langdon MD/PhD Program, University of Rochester Kevin Lyons Physics PhD Program, University of Rochester Usman Mahmood Medical Physics Program, Columbia University Susan Moss (retired HS science teacher who then did Physics B.S.) Christopher Peltzer Working as programmer, then to grad. school Brian Thalhamer High School Science Teaching

August 2008

No degrees awarded Graduate student degrees awarded

Stony Brook is one of the leading universities in number of physics Ph.D. degrees granted

At Stony Brook in 2003-4: 32 PhDs in 2004-5: 24 PhDs in 2005-6: 20 PhDs in 2006-7: 27 PhDs in 2007-8: 24 PhDs Ph.D. degrees awarded in 2007-8

December 2007 Ph.D. degrees (10)

Last name first name advisor present location Bennett Douglas James Lukens Postdoc NIST/Boulder Feng Haidong Warren Siegel Postdoc, SBU Chemsitry Dept. Gulyuz Kerim Gene Sprouse College/Univ. teaching Ionas Radu Martin Rocek Adjunct Instructor, SBU Math Dept. Lee Jung Hoon Kostya Likharev Postdoc, Dartmouth Univ. Ma Xiao Kostya Likharev Employed with Standard and Poor’s (?) Pottorf Shawn James Lukens Postdoc in Lukens Group Terri Ryan Chang Kee Jung Postdoc, Queen Mary College, University of London Volja Dmitri Wei Ku, BNL Postdoc, BNL Cond. Matt. Phys. & Mat. Sci. Dept. Yan Koon-Kiu Sergei Maslov, BNL Postdoc, Yale Univ.

May 2008 Ph.D. degrees (5) * indicates won 2008 President’s Award for Distinguished Doctoral Students

Ahn Tan N. Pietralla / G. Sprouse Postdoc, Yale Univ. Boyle* Kieran Abhay Deshpande RIKEN BNL Research Center Costin Alin Gene Sprouse Unknown Thioye Moustapha Michael Rijssenbeek Postdoc, Yale Univ. ATLAS Group Yohannes Daniel Sergei Tolpygo Technical Staff, Hypres, Inc. Ph.D. degrees awarded in 2007-8, cont.

August 2008 Ph.D. degrees (9)

Dusling Kevin Ismail Zahed Research Associate, BNL Fleckenstein Holger Chris Jacobsen Will pursue employment in industry Holt* Jeremy Gerry Brown Postdoc, Technical Univ. Munich Larson Bjorg Chris Jacobsen Postdoc, X-ray Physics, SBU Liao Jinfeng Edward Shuryak Lawrence Berkeley Lab, CA Miao Huijie Chris Jacobsen Intern in patent law firm in Boston Siu Lai-Wu Thomas Kuo Unknown Sun Tao Philip Allen Theory Postdoc, Elettra Group, Trieste, Italy Walls Thomas Kostya Likharev Research Physicist, Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C.

Note the opportunities to do Ph.D. research “elsewhere”, supervised by research mentors affiliated with our faculty. Ask about such opportunities. thanks to Sara Lutterbie for making this slide

(most of) our new graduate students at an orientation meeting on 28 Aug. 2008 New graduate class for 2008-9

(2004-5, 2005-6, 2007-8 large; 2006-7 intentionally smaller; now close to “normal”)

Last name First name Home Previous instituion

Cook Nathan United States Williams College Deng Qiang China Tsinghua University Elgin John United States University of Tulsa Gal Ciprian Romania University of Bucharest Gilje Karin United States St. Olaf College Gläßle Benjamin Germany University of Wuerzburg Hayton Keith United States Texas Christian University Hignight Joshua United States Louisiana Tech University Johnson Elliott United States North Dakota State University Kumaravadivel Piranavan Sri Lanka University of Peradeniya Lin Chia-Hui Taiwan National Chiao Tung University-College Lopes de Sa Rafael Brazil State University of Rio de Janeiro Lynch Morgan United States Angelo State University Pamuk Betul Turkey Bilkent University Paraan Francis Norman Philippines University of the Philippines Diliman New graduate class for 2008-9, cont.

Poissier Adrien France University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) Pollard Shawn United States Linfield College Puldon David United States Florida International University Reimann Rene Germany University of Wuerzburg Rocha Rafael Brazil Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ryu Hyejin Korea Sogang University Smith Reid United States University of Washington Stoffers Alexander Germany NIKHEF (Amsterdam) Sulejmanpasic Tin Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Sarajevo Towers Robert United States Northern Michigan University Vora Heli India Nirma University of Science and Technology Walter Stefan Germany University of Wuerzburg Wu Wei China University of Science and Technology of China Ye Wanyu China Iowa State University Ziegler Benedikt Germany University of Wuerzburg

25 for Ph.D. program; 1 for MSI program; 4 from Wuerzburg for MA program. 30 new students in all: 11 US, 19 foreign; 26 male, 4 female.

Welcome to all! Colloquia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

Colloquium committee: Fall: Mike Zingale (chair), Meigan Aronson, Abhay Deshpande, Hal Metcalf Spring: Meigan Aronson (chair), Abhay Deshpande, Half Metcalf, Mike Zingale Coffee & Tea served at 3:45 pm. Talk begins at 4:15 pm. from P&A web pages: first four colloquia

Date Speaker Title September 9, 2008 Peter Koch Chair's colloquium (4:00 pm rather than 4:15 pm) Stony Brook University September 16, 2008 Seamus Davis How the Cooper Pairs vanish with approaching “Mottness” in high Cornell University Tc Superconductors September 23, 2008 Anand Sivaramakrishnan Planet-hunting with adaptive optics and interferometry Stony Brook University October 7, 2008 Piers Coleman Qu-transitions. Phase transitions in the quantum era Rutgers University

For academic-year schedules of speakers, titles, abstracts (and links to streaming videos of our colloquia in mov (Quicktime) format since Jan. 2007), see http://www.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/colloquium.shtml .

Attending colloquium The many research areas in Physics and Astronomy connect in deep and interesting ways. The weekly colloquium is your opportunity to learn about the richness of physics and to expand your horizons. It is responsibility of all of us to join in this central activity of our department. Please come each week.

Students: make sure your advisor comes! Advisors: make sure your students come! Major events, meetings, & workshops 16 June – 12 July 2008

The sixth in a series of summer workshops at Stony Brook :: Bldg. will go up west of the Math Tower and connect to Math/YITP/IMS/Physics :: Physicist Michael Douglas is 1st of six faculty hires – 3 physicists & 3 mathematicians :: Mathematician John Morgan (former Chair of Columbia Math) is the 1st Director :: Postdocs are already being hired; programs are already being planned 13 June 2008

and more during the rest of the day at Stony Brook young

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youngest Research highlights of our community of researchers

To give students a flavor for the research opportunities that the Department offers, I asked each research area to prepare summary slides. Disclaimer: Any errors in description are mine. The speed of presentation is unavoidable. Hold on!

But first we must realize that significant grant funding is needed to support our research program.

Thank you PIs who get the grants and support our students! Atomic Nanofabrication Strong Field Three Photon (Claire Shean, Jason Reeves, Driven Population Inversion Chris Corder, Harold Metcalf) (Weinacht group) Metastable Helium atoms impinge on a self-assembled monolayer on a gold-coated substrate, deposit their 20 eV Of energy thereby atomic sodium damaging the molecular bonds so it can be subsequently etched Control

Learning algorithm shapes ultrafast Exquisite control of the atomic motion allows patterning on excitation pulse to the scale of λ/2. The lines are straight, wiggles are artifacts. Target give order of magnitude gain – Population inversion!

Optimal pulse shape shows ‘negative chirp’ 2 x 10-6 m Improved method for making Implementation of the Bose- cold molecules from Hubbard model with ultracold cold atoms atoms in a 3D optical lattice (Bergeman group) (Schneble group)

Tom Bergeman and Houssam Salami + Hˆ = −J bˆ bˆ tunneling ∑ i j have analyzed vast amounts of 〈i, j〉 spectroscopic data to characterize 1 ˆ ˆ on-site + 2 U ∑ ni (ni −1) repulsion the energy level structure of RbCs, i Rb2 and Cs2, for application to current + ε nˆ external ∑ i i confinement efforts to produce cold molecules. i Scheme proposed in Innsbruck Adiabatically ramp the lattice up... and back down for making cold RbCs molecules: J >> U U >> J J >> U

Initial state is a Feshbach resonance

BECsuperfluidMott ins. superfluid BEC (residual heating?)

studies of strongly correlated many-body states Condensed Matter Experiment New non-hysteretic behavior A new refinement technique for in the hysteresis loop of VO2 dealing with impurities in powder Michael Gurvitch diffraction Peter Stephen’s Group: Kevin Stone and Saul Lapidus Bayesian statistics were incorporated into the conventional least squares refinement approach, delivering astonishing improvements. Here we show refinements of 26% Ibuprofen in the presence of "unknown" 74% impurity phase

Overlay of resulting The hysteretic semiconductor-to-metal phase Overlay of resulting structure from new, transition in VO2 was found to contain within structure from normal robust method (black) itself non-hysteretic (single-valued) branches method (black) with the with the true structure shown here. The physics explaining these true structure This work just won the branches has to do with the details of the best student poster prize percolation dynamics between the at the International semiconductor and metal phases. These new Union of Crystallography branches may find a useful application in IR Congress in Osaka! visualization. Condensed Matter Experiment Improper Ferroelectricity in artifically layered perovskite oxide superlattices Matt Dawber’s Group Using thin film growth techniques we make new materials. We use a broad range of It’s like playing with Lego bricks... experimental techniques to but each of our bricks learn about the properties of is just a few atoms! the new materials.

AFM X-ray diffraction

Film Growth Electrical measurements Recently we discovered (the work was actually done in Geneva) that at certain kinds of carefully controlled interfaces a new type of behaviour emerges which leads to a special kind of “improper” ferroelectricity. This is the first time something like this has been seen in artificial materials, the results were published in Nature and led to quite a bit of media attention. (details at http://mini.physics.sunysb.edu/~mdawber/ ) Soon we’ll be producing new examples of these materials in the lab in B-133... Phase contrast: towards quantitative, 3D concentration of trace elements in cells C. Holzner, along with S. Vogt (Argonne), M. de Jonge (Australian Synchrotron)

Ultra high resolution lensless imaging in Berkeley: X. Huang, C. Jacobsen, H. Miao (PhD 2008), J. Nelson, J. Steinbrener, J. Turner Phase contrast tomography of cyclotella (marine protist) Phase contrast imaging at Argonne: C. Holzner, C. Jacobsen Scanning zone plate microscope at Brookhaven: H. Fleckenstein (PhD 2008), B. Larson (PhD 2008), C. Jacobsen, S. Moser (MA 2008), C. Peltzer (Physics BA 2008), S. Wirick Plus R. Towers (grad), J. Schmidt (undergrad) 5 μm Funding: DoE, NIH, NYSTAR Sulfur content Protist mass Sulfur concentration Single cryptomonas cell invisible by hard x-ray absorption; Research assistant position available! concentration gradients drive cellular molecular transport Condensed Matter Theory Abanov Group Durst Group

Scattering of Dirac Quasiparticles Nonlinear Quantum Shock Waves in Fractional Quantum Hall Edge States. from Pairs of Magnetic Vortices in Cuprate Superconductors

E. Bettelheim, A. G. Abanov, and P. Wiegmann., PRL 97, 246401 (2006). S. Ganeshan, M. Kulkarni, and A. C. Durst Allen Group Fernandez-Serra Group Anharmonic effects on the thermal Water confined between 2 metal plates: conductivity of insulators: study of the Strong water-metal interactions cause a phonon gas to phonon liquid spontaneous breaking of symmetry due to the competition between order (interface) transformation with temperature. and disorder (bulk water). Full Truncated Lennard Harmonic Jones Left side: negative charges favored Right side: Positive charges favored.

Density oscillations: confinement signature

Tao Sun and P. B. Allen Adrien Poissier and M.V Fernandez-Serra Nuclear and Computational Astrophysics

• Faculty: Alan Calder, Jim Lattimer, Doug Swesty, Mike Zingale • Senior Research Scientist: Eric Myra • Graduate student researchers: Aaron Jackson, Bryan Kim, Brendan Krueger, Yeunhwan Lim, Chris Malone • 1 high school student

What we study: • Radiation-hydrodynamics in stars and laboratory high-energy density physics applications (Calder, Myra, Swesty, Zingale). • Physics of dense matter from neutron star observations. Equation of state for supernovae and neutron stars (Lattimer, Swesty) . • Thermonuclear flashes: X-ray bursts, classical novae, and Type Ia supernovae, and the microphysics therein—turbulent thermonuclear combustion, turbulent mixing, low mach number flow (Calder, Zingale). • Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification in numerical models and simulations (All). Nuclear and Computational Astrophysics

Simulation of a Type Ia supernova exploding via the “gravitational confined detonation” mechanism (Calder and the Chicago Flash Center; ref: Jordan et al. 2008, ApJ, 681, 1448)

Simulation of an X-ray burst (burning on the surface of a neutron star) (Malone, Zingale, and the Center for Computational Science and Engineering/LBL) Nuclear Experiment - Quark Gluon Plasma PHENIX Experiment at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Jacak is spokesperson Upgrades in construction → inside central magnet

FVTX Si Endcaps Calorimeter

VTX Si Barrel z Faculty: Drees, Hemmick, Jacak; Pantuev z Students: Apadula, Bannier, Campbell, Chen, Citron, Connors, 40 Durham, Kamin, McCumber, Nguyen, Petti, Sun, Themann Physics Goal: How does QGP work? Hot, dense nuclear matter 1) Initial temperature ≥ 300 MeV How does it evolve? Measure radiation γ & γ*→e+e- (HBD upgrade) 2) Opaque, non-viscous liquid Effectively stops quarks & gluons, (heavy) charm quarks Do b quarks screech to a halt? How and why? (VTX upgrade) Gluon Compton e+ γ∗ e- 3) Are there shock waves? q Speed of sound? Mechanism? g q

(1) (3) (2) Calculated with 41 help of string theory Gluon Spin in the Nucleon

Scaling Errors not included

present x-range Theory χ2/NDF CL(%) GRSV-std 23.8/8* 0.25 GRSV ΔG=0 7.9/8* 44 • Run-6 result ready for publication • Kieran Boyle’s Ph.D. Thesis • Future Measurements NUCLEAR THEORY or Nuclear/Heavy Ion/Particle Physics

Brown, Kuo, Shuryak, Verbaarschot, Teaney, Zahed

Magnetic Component of Quark Gluon Plasma is also a Liquid: Liao and Shuryak 2008 v2 Flow vs. STAR data at BNL: Dusling and Teaney 2008

Dimuons Rates and Effective Temperature vs. data from the NA60 Expt. at CERN: Dusling and Zahed 2008 = −9.87 fm 0.55 as

= −18.97 fm as 0.5 free 0 Phases of QCD Quark Spectrum = − 12070 fm 0.45 as / E at finite chemical potential : 0 Normal, Pionic, Kaonic phases. E 0.4 a = + 21.01 fm Verbaarschot et al 2008 s

0.35

0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 k (fm−1) F

Universal Nuclear Matter Energy at the unitarity (Feshbach) limit Kuo and Siu 2008 Gerry Brown - updates

Jeremy Holt’s Ph.D. exam was well attended, and the first ever in Smithtown Rehabilitation Center, as Gerry was getting used to his new hip!

Papers predicting that the Phase of Hadronic Freedom was found in PHENIX:

A Hidden Local Field Theory Description of Dileptons in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Gerald E. Brown, Masayasu Harada, Jeremy W. Holt, Mannque Rho, Chihiro Sasaki, Nuclear Physics submitted, arXiv:0804.3196

Understanding Dilepton Production in Heavy Ion Collisions by Vector Mesons of Different Varieties, Gerald E. Brown, Jeremy W. Holt, Mannque Rho The First Quantitative Theory of Gamma Ray Bursters (GRBs)*

• GRBs and Hypernova Explosions of Some Galactic Sources, G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee, E. Moreno Mendez, Astrophysical Journal 671 (2007) Letter 41 • The Case for Hypercritical Accretion in M33 X¡7, Enrique Moreno Mendez, Gerald E. Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee and Il H. Park • LMC X-3 May Be A Relic Of A GRB Similar To Cosmological GRBs, G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee, E. Moreno Mendez, accepted Nature Vol 453 22 May 2008 for Astrophysical Journal • Kaon Condensation, Black Holes and Cosmological Natural Supernova bursts onto the scene Selection, G.E. Brown, C.-H. Lee, M. Rho, Phys. Rev. Lett. Accepted * The GRBs and Hypernova – Find a well measured double neutron star binary in which the two neutron stars are more than 4% different from each other in mass or explosions are powered by the a massive neutron star with mass M >= 2 M_sun. Then the following chain of predictions will be put in serious doubt or simply falsified: rotation energy of black holes (1) nearly vanishing vector meson mass at chiral restoration, (2) kaon condensation at a density n = 3 n_0, (3) the Brown-Bethe maximum neutron star mass M_max = 1.5 M_sun and (4) Smolin's `Cosmological Natural Selection' theory. • Recent Developments on Kaon Condensation and Its Astrophysical Implications, Gerald E. Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee, Mannque Rho, Phys. Rept. 462 (2008) 1 • Shell model description of the 14C dating beta decay with Brown-Rho-scaled NN interactions, J.W. Holt, G.E. Brown, T.T.S. Kuo, J.D. Holt, R. Machleidt, Phys. Rev. Letts. 100 (2008) 062501

High Energy Experiment: Colliders

•D0 Experiment at Fermilab Lowest measured diboson cross –Running well (ε>90%) section, pp->ZZ (next, Higgs!) –Have ½ of expected data σ = 1.6±0.63(stat)±0.16 pb •In ’08, 36 papers, a record; P(not bkg only) = 5.7σ – Higgs, searches, EW, QCD, B

–Show: Higgs, ZZ, Ωb Higgs Search: exclusion for 1st time! Ωb: new baryon (bss)

M = 6,165 ± 16 MeV/c2 *’07, 33 papers… ATLASATLAS atat thethe LargeLarge HadronHadron ColliderCollider

• ATLAS Detector: ready to take data! – LV & HV on – Taking cosmic muon data • LHC: ready to circulate beam – Successful injection tests completed (Aug 9, 22) – first circulating beam: Sep 10 MAGNETS CALORIMETERS INNER Central Solenoid EM - Liquid Argon – Lead DETECTOR 8 Barrel Toroids HAD - Scintillator Tile Pixels End Cap Toroids Silicon Strip Transition Radiation Tracker

Higgs Sensitivity with 30 evts/fb

MUON SYSTEM Monitored Drift Tubes ATLAS: Cathode Strip Chambers Diameter 25m Resistive Plate Chambers Length 46m Thin Gap Chambers Weight 7,000 tons YITP: High Energy (Interdisciplinary with SUSY, strings) (A selection of recent student papers) Getting Ready for the LHC: Substructure of high-p_T Jets at the LHC: Leandro Almeida and Ilmo Sung Threshold Resummation for the Top Quark Charge Asymmetry: Leandro Almeida Beyond the Standard Model: Flavoured Soft Leptogenesis: Chee Sheng Fong Unification of Gauge Symmetries…Dynamical Symmetry Breaking Chen Ning

Also: ongoing projects in neutrino and QCD phenomenology; QCD and string theory, quantum field theory . . . YITP: SUSY & String-Related (Interdisciplinary with high energy) (With a selection of recent student papers)

Superspace & beyond: Nonabelian Generalized Gauge Multiplets Itai Ryb Elliptic constructions of hyperkaehler metrics Radu Ionas

New techniques for fields: Worldgraph Approach to Yang-Mills … Peng Dai, Yu-tin Huang

Strings/field dualities: Large N Field Theory and AdS Tachyons Elli Pomoni

Also: the field theory of strings, mathematics of string theory, quantum solitons, string theory & entanglement, & QCD . . .

And . . . Coming Soon! The SCGP! Statistical Physics Research

™ Prof. B.M. McCoy continued work on exact solution of eight vertex model emphasizing the role of Q matrices. He is writing a book on STATISTICAL MECHANICS for Oxford University Press.

™ Prof. R. Shrock continued research in statistical mechanics. He studies properties of the Potts model and the Ising model, emphasizing the relation with graph theory and finding zeroes of partition functions.

™ C.N. Yang organized the Center for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University in Beijing, modeling it after the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. ™ Prof. V.Korepin worked with graduate students Ying Xu and Ionel Patu .

™ Korepin and Ying published several papers on entanglement in spin chains and quantum search algorithms.

™ Together with Patu and Averin, Korepin studied models of one-dimensional anyons and published correlation functions calculated using them. Physics NSF-REU Program in 2008 Erlend Graf, Karen Kernan

STUDENT UNDERGRAD. INSTITUTION MENTOR Dan Elton Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Miriam Forman Matthew Gliboff Cooper Union M. Rijssenbeek, R. McCarthy Corey Griffin St. Lawrence University Philip B. Allen Jacob Holter Ohio State University Michael Marx Jason Immerman Bowdoin College Michael Marx Seth McIntire Macalester College Tom Weinacht David Miller Harvey Mudd College Thomas K. Hemmick Crystal Moorman Lynchburg College Michal Simon Chantale Neira Florida Institute of Technology L. Lee, R. Lefferts Chris Presuto Stony Brook University Harold Metcalf Kieran Ramos Stony Brook University Chang Kee Jung Brandon Ruzic University of Illinois T. Hemmick, R. Lefferts Greg Smith Stony Brook University Michael Marx William Weiss Western Washington University John Noé Laser Teaching Center Marty Cohen, Hal Metcalf, John Noé Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Sam Goldwasser

• HS student Hamsa Sridhar (going to Harvard) was Intel STS Finalist, 1 of 2 from our dept. • Record ten WISE 187 students, with 3 posters at URECA • Optics Rotation grad student Bryce Gadway will present his LTC work at OSA/DLS

Intel STS Finalist Hamsa Sridhar WISE freshmen research class ƒ Thank you all for the exciting results in physics and astronomy produced over the past year. Hear the details at our colloquia, seminars, Friday, and other presentations! ƒ Our community of students, research associates, and faculty is justifiably recognized as being at the leading edge of many of the most important areas of science. Keep it up! ƒ New students – we welcome you to our community and wish you every success. Use your time here to advantage!

Now please come to the reception in S-240. Thank you main office staff for arranging this!

I will put this talk on my web site after (inevitable) errors are corrected. Some data for the USA (AIP: 2007)