Physics research underlies the progress in almost every area of science, from chemistry to biology to electronics to medicine, and physicists defined the html code for the Internet as we know it. You want to see tumors in your body, try tools from physics. You want to see better, try laser surgery using the math that we astronomers invented to see better on the ground and in space. You want to see oil reserves underground, use sound waves and the math that physicists invented.

Then of course there is the cultural benefit of understanding who we are and where we could go if we try.

-- Dr. John C. Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Faculty Research

Particle Physics

Theory

Rouzbeh Allahverdi

Rouzbeh Allahverdi

Theoretical cosmology, dark matter, particle phenomenology

Kevin Cahill

Kevin Cahill

Phenomenology, path integrals, dark matter, and dark energy

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Particle astrophysics, cosmology, dark matter

Huaiyu Duan

Huaiyu Duan

Compact objects and neutrino physics

Observation/Experiment

Douglas Fields

Douglas Fields

Experimental neutrino physics, nuclear physics, high-energy spin physics. collider instrumentation

Michael Gold

Michael Gold

 Experimental particle and nuclear physics; neutrino instrumentation

Dinesh Loomba

Dinesh Loomba

Dark matter direct detection, particle astrophysics

John Matthews

John Matthews

Astroparticle physics

Sally Seidel

Sally Seidel

Physics at the Large Hadron Collider, Particle-physics instrumentation

Related Websites:

New Mexico Center for Particle Physics

Collider Physics Group