Experimental particle physics at the University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh High Energy Physics Group has begun in 1970 under a National Science Foundation Science Development Grant, and NSF support of the research activities of this group was provided during the period 1972 through 1981. The activities supported by the contract, completed or continuing on beyond the contract, have included both instrumentation development and high energy physics experiments. Instrumentation development has included an optical trigger processor, a silicon microstrip detector system, silicon drift chamber development, and SSC ionization calorimetry and trigger strategy studies. Experiments supported by the contract that have been completed or are still in progress are: (1) axial field spectrometer experiment at CERN; (2) HELIOS experiment NA34 at the CERN SPS; (3) Novosibirsk Phi Factory; (4) BNL experiment E865 -- rare kaon decays; (5) Fermilab E706 -- direct photon production in Hadron-Hadron collisions; (6) Fermilab CDF -- physics at 2 TeV; and, (7) search for fractionally charged particles in semiconductors