Professor Daniel R. Claes

The Dzero Experiment

The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project

CMS

Underground Neutrino Observatory

Henderson Mine Project

Dan Claes
Associate Professor
Experimental High Energy Physics  

University of Nebraska-Lincoln  


Graduate student support 

available with the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project  

PostScript copy of my curriculum vitae
PostScript listing of publications

Contact info:

Professor Daniel R. Claes 
dclaes@unlhep.unl.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy
110 Ferguson    (402)472-2783
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

FAX: (402) 472-2879

Postdocs supervised:

Angela Bellavance, Dzero
bellavan@fnal.gov

Ptk 177    (630)840-2284
Fermilab MS 357
PO Box 500 Batavia IL, 60510

Carl Lundstedt, Lecturer, Dzero
clundst@unlserve.unl.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy
02 Ferguson      (402)472-6014
University of Nebraska 
http://unlhepcl.unl.edu/cl


Graduate students supervised:

J. Stephen Rosenboom, Graduate Student, DZERO
jrosenb7@bigred.unl.edu
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy
120 Brace (402)472-2540
University of Nebraska 

Jiawei Tan, Graduate Student, DZERO
tan_jiawei8303@hotmail.com 
Department of Physics and Astronomy
120 Brace (402)472-2540
University of Nebraska

Tracie Evans, Graduate Student, CROP
tev712@yahoo.com 
Department of Physics and Astronomy
02B Ferguson      (402)472-9879 (HEP lab)
University of Nebraska 

Xiaoshu Xu, Graduate Student, CROP
xiaoshuxu@hotmail.com 
Department of Physics and Astronomy
02B Ferguson      (402)472-9879 (HEP lab)
University of Nebraska 

Undergraduates:
Laurel Burk     lburk84@yahoo.com
Katie Everet    meveret1@bigred.unl.edu
Jason Keller     kellerjd@bigred.unl.edu 
Levi Neukirch  uncertainbyprinciple@hotmail.com 

Yidan Qin        yidan032907@yahoo.com

 

Teaching Assignments

Fall 2005: PHYS 462/862
"Nuclear and Atomic Physics"
Monday/Wednesday/Friday 10:30-11:25 Brace 202

Spring 2006: PHYS926 "Particle Physics"
Monday/Wednesday/Friday 11:30-12:25
Brace 118

Office hours: MWF 1-2pm

Research Interests

Dan's research page  

The Dzero Experiment
FERMILAB
Former coordinator (7 years) of the Dzero Level-3 software trigger upgrade.
Currently co-coordinator with Jim Linnemann (MSU) of the Dzero Level-2 Algorithms group

Jets and Missing Et Events 

Searches for Phenomena
Beyond the Standard Model

The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project
a ground-based array fior the study of extended cosmic ray showers

(UNO) The Underground Neutrino Observatory
a proposed next generation experiment that may anchor the NSF Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (DUSEL)

Recent Talks Given

"Symmetries in Particle Physics"
& "The Higgs Mechanism"
Weekly Mass Seminar,
University of Nebraska
April 8 and 15, 2005

"Cosmic Rays"
Year of Einstein 2005 Lecture, ESU # 13, Scottsbluff, NE
February 9, 2005

"The Henderson Mine Project" Unification Day Workshop, Keystone, CO  Oct 14, 2004
Education and Outreach
Aspen Center for Physics
July 10, 2004

"Needles in a Haystack: Neutrinos Among the Cosmic Rays" Henderson Mine, Empire, CO  September 29, 2004

"The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project: An Outreach Program at the University of Neraska"
AGU Annual Meeting 
San Fransisco, CA Dec 12, 2003

"Tevatron Searches for New Physics" Higgs & Supersymmetry Conference
Orsay, France 
Mar 22-25,2001

full listing of talks