Our group's research is currently centered on the CMS experiment and the RD51 micropattern gas detector collaboration at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) and on Tracking R&D for a future Electron-Ion Collider in the US. In CMS we are doing Higgs physics in the tau tau channel and are helping with preparing the muon upgrade of the detector for the high-luminosity LHC. In our labs on the Florida Tech campus we do particle detector R&D on Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) including for a Muon Tomography project. We operate a state-of-the-art Linux cluster with 180 CPU cores and 100TB of mass storage as a Tier-3 Grid cluster on the Open Science Grid from our local CMS T3 Center. Our group participates in the national Quarknet education and outreach program by offering technical expertise to local physics high school teachers and students for a Cosmic Ray Muon Project.

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Quarknet

As a group at an educational institution it is our responsibility (and pleasure) to educate the public about the field of high-energy physics.

As members of the CMS experiment we joined the DOE/NSF-supported QuarkNet outreach program and became a QuarkNet site in 2001. Our program includes 10 – 12 high school teachers each year and runs full time for 2 weeks during the summer with another week of follow-up during the year. We have excellent contacts to area schools since many of their physics teachers are graduates of Florida Tech. Our QuarkNet program has run successfully for 8 years and has brought good publicity for high-energy phsyics and Florida Tech. Teachers have returned to campus with their classes for demonstrations and discussions, and faculty have visited the high schools. There were also newspaper articles in the regional press.