General Information on E852 at Notre Dame

History

Notre Dame High Energy Physics has been involved in Experiment E852 since its proposal in 1989. Notre Dame has primarily been responsible for the construction and operation of the CsI veto detector which surrounds the target region. Members of the Notre Dame group have also been involved in almost every aspect of E852 including the proposal, detector construction, trigger, shift taking, run coordination and data analysis.

E852 is a search for exotic mesons which are predicted by QCD, but have yet to be confirmed. It is a search of the meson spectrum in the 1-2 GeV region where the lowest lying exotics are predicted. By combining charged and neutral particle detectors E852 should be able to do a fairly comprehensive study of the 1-2 GeV meson region. Exotic mesons include glueballs, hybrids, and dibaryons.

Members

Faculty

  • Jim Bishop
  • Neal Cason (co-spokesman)
  • John LoSecco
  • Bill Shephard

    Post-Doc

  • Amir Sanjari

    Graduate Students

  • Todd Adams
  • Joe Manak
  • Doran Stienike
  • Sydney Taegar
  • Dave Thompson

    Undergraduates

  • Chris Kopp