Phil Gutierrez
| Title: | Professor |
| Education: | B.S. 1976 University of California-Riverside |
| Ph.D. 1983 University of California-Riverside | |
| Office: | 339 Nielsen Hall |
| Phone: | 405-325-3961, ext. 36339 |
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Over past 20 plus years I have carried out research in experimental high energy physics. The research has taken place at two of the premier high energy physics laboratories in the world, Fermilab near Chicago, and the CERN laboratory near Geneva Switzerland. Currently I am a member of the DØ collaboration, one of two research groups that uses the Fermilab Tevatron, the world's highest energy particle collider. The goal of the research is to study all aspects of proton anti-proton collisions. This includes studying particles that are produced in these collisions, such as the recently discovered top-quark, refining previous measurements to set limits on how well the standard model of particle physics agrees with data. These measurements will ultimately lead to extensions of the standard model, which should help answer such questions as the origin of mass, the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter in the universe, among many others.
At present I am participating in upgrading the current DØ detector, to improve its charge particle detecting capabilities. This includes work with other members of the University of Oklahoma group in developing a silicon vertex detector. I am also participating, along with my current graduate students, in several physics analysis that involve QCD (strong intereactions) and electroweak interactions (search for a charged Higgs boson).
