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Electronic Detector Group

We are an experimental particle physics research group in the Physics Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Our mission is the exploration of properties and interactions of the constituents of matter.

Our group primarily studies very rare processes at the Intensity Frontier, one of three main research areas in high energy physics, along with the Energy and Cosmic frontiers. Our major current activities are the neutrino experiments: Daya Bay in China, LBNE in the Homestake mine in South Dakota and MINOS at FNAL. We continue to produce results from the very rare kaon decay experiment E949 at BNL and are pushing for a new experiment called ORKA at FNAL. We also participate in the rare pion decay experiment PIENU at TRIUMF and in the Cosmic frontier experiment, LSST in Chile. (This is a link to our old page which will become obsolete.)

Past group leader Laurie Littenberg shared the 2011 Panofsky Prize in experimental particle physics for the discovery of K⁺ → π⁺ ν ν_bar with his E787 co-spokespersons Doug Bryman (UBC) and Stew Smith (Princeton).

Group Leader: Steve Kettell

Deputy: Milind Diwan

Administrator: Deborah Kerr

Scientists: Mary Bishai, Milind Diwan, Jim Frank, Bob Hackenburg, Zeynep Isvan, David Jaffe, Steve Kettell, Jiajie Ling, Jim Stewart, Hide Tanaka, Harry Themann, Brett Viren, Elizabeth Worcester, Chao Zhang