A team from IU’s Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter was awarded the funds by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
The particle detector, or Belle II , will be very precise and will be used to look at the fundamental properties of ?elementary particles.
The detector will be held in Japan at the new SuperKEKB particle accelerator, according to the University.
Belle II was preceeded by the Belle experiment in 2001. The experiment showed charge parity violation, which is believed to be one of the roots for the observed dominance of matter over anti-matter in the universe.
This experiment was predicated by 2008 Nobel Prize winners in physics Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa , according to the University.
Anselm Vossen, a research scientist in the Department of Physics, will lead the development of electronics for the particle detection systems of the Belle II detector along with electronics engineers Brandon Kunkler and Gerard Visser.
“Our engineers here at CEEM have already played a leading role in other nuclear and high-energy physics experiments, most notably the STAR experiment at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory,” Vossen said. “It’s these qualified engineers coupled with our laboratory resources that played a large role in obtaining this ?funding.”
IU worked on the Solenoidal Tracker at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider by both designing and constructing a device to see how gluons, particles that bind quarks in protons, contribute to the angular drive of protons, according to the University.
Kathrine Schulze
