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About Benjamin Brau

I study collisions of protons at the highest energies yet achievable on Earth. We use large particle accelerators to collide beams of particles in order to study what happens in the collisions. One of the things we would like to do is produce new particles in these collisions which might help explain some of the mysteries we have about the universe. My research is at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab near Chicago, Illinois, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the two highest energy colliders on planet Earth.
We are at a crossroads of sorts in our knowledge about the universe, its composition, beginnings, and evolution. We know an awful lot about the particles we are able to make and study in accelerators like those at Fermilab and CERN, but there is a growing body of evidence that the particles of the Standard Model make up only about 4% of the total stuff of the Universe. If you consider only matter, then the Standard Model particles make up only about one sixth of the total matter in the universe. One of our goals at colliders is to make and study the exotic new forms of matter which may make up the balance of matter of the universe.

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Present Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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1032 Lederle Graduate Research Tower
710 North Pleasant Street
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel: 413-545-0620
Fax: 413-545-0648

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