Faculty

Scientists & Engineers

Students

Visitors

Advisory Board

Director

People

ACFI personnel include faculty, research staff, and students at UMass Amherst, affiliated faculty and researchers at other institutions (see Partners), the Director, and an Advisory Board.

Faculty

  • hertel

    Scott Hertel

    Associate Professor

    Experimental Particle Physics at Low Energies, Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics, Detector R&D.

    PSB W111
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    413-545-1310
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    shertel@umass.edu
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    Ben Heidenreich

    Assistant Professor

    String theory, quantum gravity, non-perturbative quantum field theory, particle and string phenomenology, cosmology.

    LGRT 417B
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    413-545-2402
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    bheidenreich@umass.edu
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    Jordy de Vries

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    j.devries4@uva.nl
  • Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa

    Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa

    Associate Professor

    Experimental particle physicists studying the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector.

    LGRT-1034 (Lab – PSB 062)
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    413-545-0993
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    rclsa@umass.edu
  • Verena Martinez Outschoorn

    Verena Martinez Outschoorn

    Associate Professor

    Experimental particle physics, LHC, searching for new phenomena with the Higgs boson, electronics for triggers.

    LGRT 1032
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    413-545-2444
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    vimartin@umass.edu
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    Rory Miskimen

    Professor

    Tests of fundamental symmetries and low-energy QCD. Experimental Nuclear Physics.

    PSB W108
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    413-545-2480
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    miskimen@physics.umass.edu
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    David Kawall

    Professor

    Experimental particle and AMO physics. Emphasis on precision measurements of particle electric and magnetic dipole moments as tests of the Standard Model.

    PSB W105 (Lab – PSB 031)
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    413-545-2019
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    kawall@physics.umass.edu
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    David Kastor

    Associate Head/Senior Lecturer II

    Classical and Quantum Gravity and String Theory

    LGRT 421
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    413-545-0545
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    kastor@physics.umass.edu
  • jenny

    Jennie Traschen

    Professor

    Classical and Quantum Gravity.

    LGRT 425
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    413.545.1974
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    traschen@physics.umass.edu
  • carlo

    Carlo Dallapiccola

    Professor

    Experimental searches at ATLAS for new, exotic phenomena and Higgs measurements.

    LGRT 1038
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    413-545-0994
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    carlod@physics.umass.edu
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    Krishna Kumar

    Distinguished Gluckstern Professor

    Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics, Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and Conservation Laws, Precision Tests of the Standard Model, Novel Probes of the QCD Structure of the Nucleon.

    PSB W104
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    413-545-0763
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    kkumar@physics.umass.edu
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    Stephane Willocq

    Professor

    Experimental particle physics at the energy frontier. Search for new phenomena and measurements with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

    LGRT-1042
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    413-545-0525
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    willocq@physics.umass.edu
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    Benjamin Brau

    Associate Professor

    Experimental searches for new phenomena, including Hidden Valley scenarios.

    LGRT 1040
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    413-545-0620
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    bbrau@physics.umass.edu
  • andrea

    Andrea Pocar

    Professor & Assistant Director, Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions

    Experimental neutrino physicist exploring neutrino and dark matter properties.

    PSB W110 (Office), PSB 021 (Lab)
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    413-545-2011
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    pocar@physics.umass.edu
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    Lorenzo Sorbo

    Professor

    Theoretical physics at the interface of cosmology and physics beyond the Standard Model, with particular emphasis on inflation and its signatures in the cosmic microwave background, and on cosmological gravitational waves. Also, research in General Relativity and its possible modifications at low energies.

    LGRT 417C
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    sorbo@physics.umass.edu
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    Michael Ramsey-Musolf

    Professor & Director, Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions

    Theoretical physics at the interface of nuclear physics, high energy physics, and cosmology: baryogenesis; physics beyond the Standard Model; fundamental symmetries; dark matter; electroweak symmetry breaking; collider phenomenology; quantum chromodynamics; effective field theories.

    LGRT 416
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    413.545.0320
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    mjrm@physics.umass.edu

Director

  • carlo

    Carlo Dallapiccola

    Professor

    Experimental searches at ATLAS for new, exotic phenomena and Higgs measurements.

    LGRT 1038
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    413-545-0994
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    carlod@physics.umass.edu
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    Michael Ramsey-Musolf

    Professor & Director, Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions

    Theoretical physics at the interface of nuclear physics, high energy physics, and cosmology: baryogenesis; physics beyond the Standard Model; fundamental symmetries; dark matter; electroweak symmetry breaking; collider phenomenology; quantum chromodynamics; effective field theories.

    LGRT 416
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    413.545.0320
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    mjrm@physics.umass.edu

Scientists & Engineers

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    Jaber Balal Habashi

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Effective field theories, Quantum resonant states, Thermal field theory, Electroweak Baryogenesis, Beyond the Standard Model Physics.

    LGRT 422
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    jbhabashi@umass.edu
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    Leon Friedrich

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Electroweak baryogenesis, the electroweak phase transition, and examining the collider phenomenology of models that could be capable of generating an asymmetry via these mechanisms.

    LGRT 424
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    leonsteffenf@umass.edu
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    Supriya Senapati

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    BSM model buildings involving their phenomenological and cosmological implications, Neutrino masses and mixing, Dark matter physics and Electroweak Baryogenesis.

    LGRT 424
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    ssenapati@umass.edu
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    Hanjie Liu

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Experimental Nuclear Physics and Electroweak physics.

    PSB W219
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    hanjieliu@umass.edu
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    Wesley Gillis

    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    PSB W218
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    Chandan Ghosh

    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    PSB W217
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    ghosh@umass.edu
  • bane

    Jason Bane

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics.

    PSB W220
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    jasonbane@umass.edu
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    Martina Javurkova

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Experimental Particle Physics, ATLAS at the LHC.

    CERN
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    Martina.Pagacova@cern.ch
  • tarka

    Michal Tarka

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Experimental particle and nuclear physics

    PSB W218
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    413-545-0586
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    mtarka@umass.edu
  • alessandro

    Alessandro Serafin

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Dark Matter Experiment

    PSB W218
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    413-545-0586
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    aserafin@umass.edu
  • paiva

    Thiago Costa de Paiva

    Engineer
    LGRT 932
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    tcpaiva@umass.edu
  • edmoyse

    Edward Moyse

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Experimental Particle Physics, ATLAS at the LHC.

    CERN
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    edward.moyse@cern.ch

Students

Visitors

  • clarke

    Cameron Clarke

    Graduate Student (NENS) Stony Brook

    Experimental nuclear and particle physics, probing astrophysics in the lab and physics beyond the standard model.

    PSB W219
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    csclarke@umass.edu
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    William Loinaz

    Professor, Amherst College

    Theoretical particle physics; neutrino physics; electroweak symmetry breaking.

    223 Merrill Science Center, Amherst College
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    (413) 542-7968
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    waloinaz@amherst.edu

Advisory Board

  • Kate Scholberg

    Duke U.

  • Gail McLaughlin

    North Carolina State U.

  • Larry McLerran

    Institute for Nuclear Theory/U. Washington

  • David Hertzog

    U. Washington

  • Karsten Heeger

    Yale U.

  • John Hardy

    Texas A & M U.

  • Geoff Greene

    U. Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Vincenzo Cirigliano

    Institute for Nuclear Theory/U. Washington

  • Eva Halkiadakis

    Rutgers U.

  • Alessandra Buonanno

    U. Maryland

  • David Lowe

    Brown U.

  • Stefano Profumo

    U.C. Santa Cruz

  • Shufang Su

    U. Arizona

  • Robert McKeown

    Jefferson Laboratory/William & Mary

  • Scott Hughes

    MIT

  • JoAnne Hewett

    Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Wick Haxton

    U.C. Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Martin Beneke

    Technical U. Munich

  • Mark Wise

    Caltech

  • Robert Bernstein

    Fermilab