Theoretical and experimental studies of elementary physics

The experimental high energy physics program is directed toward the execution of experiments that probe the basic constituents of matter and the forces between them. These experiments are carried out at national and international accelerator facilities. At the current time, we are primarily concentrating on the following projects: Direct photon production in hadronic reactions; production of hybrid mesons in the nuclear Coulomb field; the D-Zero experiment at the Tevatron collider; deep inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering at FNAL and SLAC; nonlinear QED at critical field strengths at SLAC; the experiments at KEK (AMY, 17keV neutrino); the CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider; and SSC-related detector R ampersand D on scintillating tile- and diamond-based calorimetry and microstrip tracking detectors