The Center for Accelerator and Particle Physics (CAPP) provides a locus for interdisciplinary activities at Illinois Institute of Technology aimed at

• the continued development of research in elementary particle physics,

• developing new particle-accelerator technologies, and

• education and outreach both to educational institutions and to the wider business, philanthropic, and general-public sectors.

Click here for a list of CAPP preprints.

(Link to Beam Physics at IIT web page.)

	Faculty:	Ray Burnstein, Emeritus Professor of Physics
		Zelimir Djurcic, Research Professor of Physics
		Tim Hobbs, Research Assistant Professor of Physics
		Dan Kaplan, Professor of Physics and Director, Center for Accelerator and Particle Physics
		Bryce Littlejohn, Associate Professor of Physics
		Pavel Snopok, Associate Professor of Physics and Assoc. Chair, Physics Dept.
		Zack Sullivan, Professor of Physics
		Yagmur Torun, Associate Professor of Physics
	Postdocs:	Kirk Bays, Ryan Dorrill, Will Foreman, Jose Palomino-Gallo
	Grad students:	Diego Aldana Andrade, Manoa Andriamirado, Robert Chirco, Miguel Hernandez-Morquecho, Will Limestall, Mithila Mangedarage, Pedro Rivero Ramirez, Buse Naz Temizel, Yiding Yu
	Undergrads:	Shayarneel Kundu
	(Former Mentor:	Leon Lederman, 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics and former Pritzker Professor of Physics, IIT)

The IIT High Energy Physics group currently includes eight faculty along with postdocs and students (both graduate and undergraduate). High Energy Physics is the study of matter at its most fundamental level. We know that the particles that make up the nuclei of atoms are themselves composed of quarks. Our research has focused on properties of neutrinos and strange (s), charm (c), and beauty (b) quarks, which we study in experiments at the nearby Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located 40 miles west of IIT, as well as other venues around the world. Experiments in which we currently participate include the Daya Bay, DUNE, MicroBooNE, NOvA, and PROSPECT neutrino experiments — as well as the MICE muon cooling experiment, one aspect of our work on research and development for a possible Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider for the longer-term future.

See also the Littlejohn group web page.

• ISMD13: We hosted the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics at IIT September 15-20, 2013.

• MICE Collaboration meeting: We hosted a meeting of the MICE Collaboration and MICE software workshop at IIT June 15-18, 2013.

• NuFact09 Workshop: We hosted the 11th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Beta Beams at IIT, July 20-25, 2009.

• Collider Physics 2009: We hosted the Joint IIT & Argonne Theory Institute at Argonne and IIT, May 18-22, 2009.

• NFMCC Meeting: We hosted a meeting of the Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration at IIT March 12-15, 2006.

• BEACH2004: We hosted the 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm & Beauty Hadrons in June, 2004.

• MUCOOL/MICE Collaboration meeting: We hosted a joint meeting of the MUCOOL and MICE Collaborations at IIT February 5-10, 2002.

• VLLC Workshop: Our Workshop on an e+e- Ring at VLHC was held at IIT on March 9-11, 2001.

• Muon Instrumentation: We hosted an international Workshop on Instrumentation for Muon Cooling Studies November 10-11, 2000, and are continuing to play a leading role in developing such instrumentation.

• pbar2000: In late summer 2000, we hosted an international workshop to explore the feasibility of constructing a new, dedicated, antiproton storage ring at Fermilab that could offer a broad program in particle physics at relatively modest cost. For more information, please see the pbar2000 web page.

• b20: In summer 1997 we hosted a Symposium in honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of the discovery of the beauty quark. Prof. Lederman led and Prof. Kaplan participated (as a graduate student) in the group that discovered the b quark at Fermilab in 1977. That discovery has now engendered a substantial effort in beauty experiments and theory. There is hope for a fundamental breakthrough in our understanding over the next several years from experiments now taking data or under construction.

  For further information on High Energy Physics at IIT, contact Dan Kaplan.