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Professor hoping to figure out universe
By Sarah Hill Kansan staff writer
Instead of grading student papers this semester, Alice Bean is working on an international project to discover what the universe is made of.
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Bean, professor of physics, is a project director at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill.
The scientist's ultimate goal is to understand the composition of mass by studying the forces that hold particles together.
"What really excites us is to understand the why and the how of the universe," Bean said.
The project, named D0, uses the Tevatron particle accelerator, the highest level energy accelerator in the world. Bean described the particle accelerator, often incorrectly referred to as an "atom smasher," as a microscope that could look at the building blocks of the smallest particles. The Tevatron is four miles in circumference.
Because the Tevatron is so powerful, the scientists observe particles more closely on a much smaller scale. These particles hold the answers to what the universe is made of.
The scientists developed technology from the project to improve their own systems, then discovered the technology could help others. Bean said the group developed technology for the World Wide Web and improved magnets for magnetic resonance imaging systems.
"It's helping society, but it's not why we went in there in the first place." she said.
Philip Baringer, professor of physics, was one of the first KU physicists to work at Fermilab on the D0 project. KU researchers have worked on the project since 1994.
KU faculty and students work on the project at the Fermilab and at a satellite lab in Malott Hall. KU researchers are part of a group of 500 scientists from around the world working on the project.
Baringer said the project was a good way for students to learn to build and test equipment and then analyze data that results from the experiments.
"In order to give our students the right experience, we have to have projects in different stages," he said. "The D0 project allows us to do that."
Jeremy Wade, Wichita junior, works on the project at the University. Wade uses probes to test integrated circuits which are small computer chips. He said the job is challenging.
Bean will finish this semester at Fermilab and return to the University next fall to teach physics classes.
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Alice Bean, professor of physics, holds a diagram showing where her silicon research will ultimately be used. Bean lives in Chicago where her research is taking place and will resume teaching classes next fall.
Contact Hill at shill@kansan.com. This story was edited by Jeremy Clarkson
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