{"id":188071,"date":"2023-12-05T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=188071"},"modified":"2023-12-05T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:51:44","slug":"high-energy-physics-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/05\/high-energy-physics-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$7.2<abbr>M<\/abbr> boosts physics research on creation of Earth, space, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_188103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188103\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-nasa-hawaii.jpg\" alt=\"hawaiian islands from space\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-nasa-hawaii.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-nasa-hawaii-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-nasa-hawaii-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A four-year, $7,278,000 funding award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Energy<\/a> will help support ongoing high energy physics research at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_188074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188074\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-fermilab-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"large machine\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-188074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-fermilab-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-fermilab-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-physics-funding-grant-fermilab.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes less than three milliseconds for the world\u2019s most intense beam of neutrinos, made at Fermilab, to travel 500 miles. (Photo credit: Fermilab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>High energy physics explores what the world is made of and how it works at the smallest and largest scales, seeking new discoveries from the tiniest particles to the outer reaches of space. These discoveries can be used in a variety of fields from finding out the origins of our universe to the newest advances in medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa project is one of 80 across the country to receive a total of $137 million. The projects were selected by a competitive peer review process.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed funding will support six <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa faculty members, nine postdoctoral fellows, eight graduate research assistants and five undergraduate students doing research on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Intensity Frontier:<\/strong> Researchers at the Intensity Frontier, overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy, uses intense beams to explore rare natural processes. The program funds the Belle <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> experiment at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization called KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, which collides electrons and positrons and studies beauty and anti-beauty particles. Belle <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr>&#8216;s findings shed light on the universe&#8217;s matter-antimatter asymmetry, enhancing our understanding of elementary particles. The UH team led by Professor Jelena Maricic will focus on neutrinos, which may offer insights into the universe&#8217;s matter-antimatter asymmetry and the origin of our existence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detector research and development:<\/strong> <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> is considered a leader in this area, thanks to the work of the late Professor Gary Varner and Professors Sven Vahsen and Peter Gorham. There are many practical spin-off applications in areas such as medical physics, particle accelerators, studies of protein structure at x-ray light sources, computer chip lithography (process to make tiny patterns on computer chips) and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developing high energy physics theory:<\/strong> Two <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa high energy physics theory Professors Jason Kumar and Danny Marfatia are focused on developing experimental signatures and consequences of high energy physics theories. They try to predict results for current and future planned experiments and their research may yield new clues to the dark matter or dark energy mysteries of the universe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The principal investigator for the project is <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phys.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a> Professor Thomas Browder.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Physics and Astronomy is housed in the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/natsci.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Natural Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa project is one of 80 across the country to receive a total of $137 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[308,1363,568,124,545,9],"class_list":["post-188071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-manoa-research","tag-natural-science","tag-physics","tag-physics-and-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188104,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188071\/revisions\/188104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}