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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Tevatron Searches for New Physics with Photons and Jets, Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (2011)

The D and CDF experiments have each collected more than 8 fb..1 in Run II...