Ranked second in the United States for its nuclear physics graduate program, MSU offers an international community of scientists and graduate students unparalleled research opportunities and educates about 10 percent of U.S. nuclear science doctoral students. MSU is home to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, a world leader in rare isotope research, and has been selected to establish the next-generation Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. High-energy physics researchers at MSU explore the fundamental particles of matter at the largest accelerators in the world, including the new Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.
MSU nuclear science researchers probe the mysteries of an atom’s nucleus in search of answers to fundamental questions about how elements were formed and what keeps nuclei together. They work by analyzing the short-lived isotopes created when tiny particles collide at half the speed of light. Read more
Researchers in the high-energy physics experimental group explore quarks and gluons and the carriers of the electroweak and strong forces, the gauge bosons and gluons, at the largest particle accelerators in the world: the Fermi National Laboratory near Chicago and the new Large Hadron Collider at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more
Ongoing research in the theoretical high-energy physics group encompasses quantum chromodynamics theory and phenomenology, electroweak symmetry breaking mechanisms, supersymmetry and other beyond-the-standard-model scenarios, and Tevatron, LHC, HERA, NLC phenomenology. Read more
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