Noel Stanton

Noel Stanton
Professor
Address: 10 Cardwell Hall
Phone: (785) 532-1641
E-mail: stanton@phys.ksu.edu
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Ph.D. Cornell University, 1965
B.S. Rutgers University, 1960

Research Area

Experimental High Energy Physics

I have gradually phased out my research commitments during the four-year phased retirement period that began in 2005 (see below), and at my request no longer receive a summer salary from the KSU high-energy physics DOE grant.

When this phased retirement began, I was active in research with the D0 Collaboration at Fermilab, then the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, and also in planning an experiment at the Braidwood nuclear reactor to measure the small probability of spontaneous change (“oscillation”) of electron neutrinos to muon or tau neutrinos. If this probability is much smaller than 1%, violation of the charge-parity (CP) symmetry involving neutrinos would be too small to explain why matter dominates over antimatter in the universe.

As the first step in reducing my research commitments, I ended my active participation in D0 in 2005. However, because of my past contributions to detector construction and operation my name continued to appear on D0 publications into 2006.

In April 2006, the US DOE decided (for largely political reasons) not to provide prototyping funds for the Braidwood collaboration to prepare a full technical proposal, and encouraged collaboration members instead to join a proposed Chinese experiment. Our KSU neutrino group (Bolton, Horton-Smith and I) decided to invest our neutrino physics effort in the less ambitious but more immediate Double Chooz experiment in France, of which Horton-Smith was already a member. I have not found a suitable way to contribute to this well-staffed experimental effort during my phased retirement.

Recent Selected Publications