Mission Statement
The Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics (IHEPA) was formed in 2000. IHEPA serves to facilitate collaborations of UF researchers in large scale projects in the interdisciplinary area of Particle Physics and Astrophysics. Many of the Institute's participants are involved in national and international experiments, including the CDF experiment at FermiLab, the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) at Cornell University, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), the experiment searching for Gravitational Waves in space (LISA), the CMS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the axion search at Livermore National Laboratory, search for cold dark matter particles (CDMS), and the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. Small groups of researchers from UF have taken active roles in the primary activities of these experimental efforts. Their activities include designing and constructing new apparatus in collaboration with outside groups, developing major software components, carrying out data analysis and simulation, and providing large scale computing support for data reduction and simulation, a task for which we are particularly well equipped. The High Energy group is particularly active in development of the GRID technologies for distributed computing which will be used for data analysis in CMS, LIGO, and other experiments.
Contact
Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Florida
Martin Meder, Office Manager
meder@phys.ufl.edu
Phone: 352.392.9237, Fax: 352.392.8863