The NICADD's HPC contributed to every research project conducted at the laboratory since 2004. Today the cluster serves to more than 40 scientists and students from NIU, Fermilab, Argonne and CERN.

Active Research Projects

Advanced Accelerator R&D (AARD) group.

P. Piot (faculty), D. Mihalcea (research scientist), A. Lueangaramwong, M. Urder, O. Mohsen, W. H. Tan , S Fatima, T. Xu, A Fetterman (graduate students)

• Research in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology with emphasis on electron-beam generation, manipulations, acceleration, and diagnostics

Charged particle beam dynamics.

B. Erdely (faculty), C. E. Ordoñez(research scientist), A. Patapenka , H. Schaumburg (post doctoral associates), A. Marzouk (graduate student)

• Development of applications based on COSY Infinity package, the general purpose nonlinear dynamics code with an underlying arbitrary order Differential Algebraic (DA) engine.

High energy Physics, ATLAS experiment at CERN.

D.Chackraborty, J. Adelman (faculty); Y. Smirnov ( research scientist) , P Klimek, E. Brost (post doctoral associates) T. Burch, B. Burghgrave, E. Parrish, P. Saha, B. Stamas (graduate students)

• Operation of the scintillator-tile hadronic calorimeter (TileCal):
• Commissioning of the Fast TracKer (FTK):
• Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model through Higgs interactions

High Energy Physics, Detector research and development (DR&D)

G. Blazey, M.Eads, D. Hedin, M. Syphers, V. Zutshi (faculty members); A. Dychkant, K. Francis, S. Uzunyan (research scientists) D. Faia, S. Hamilton, J. Kalnins, C. Naraga (graduate students), D. Coveyou, C. Strain (undergraduate students), E. Ford (high school student)

• Mu2e (E973) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). The experiment will search for Charge Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) in neutrino-less muon-to-electron conversion in a nuclear Coulomb field. The group contributing to the design, construction, and commissioning of the cosmic ray veto (CRV) and extinction monitoring detector systems plus the design and engineering of beamline elements.
• Detector research and development (DR&D) efforts. Innovative design and maximized performance of future detectors base on scintillator/silicon photodetectors, with emphasis on cosmic ray rejection, high granularity calorimeters, and image quality neutrino detection.
• CMS experiment at CERN.
  • Hadron Calorimeter (HGCAL) upgrade efforts
  • Measurement of Higgs Production Cross Section via Vector Boson Fusion in H -> ZZ -> 4l final state at 13 TeV using Deep Neural Networks
  • Quark/Gluon jet discrimination at CMS.
• Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Fermilab.
  • Identification of tau neutrinos in the DUNE Far Detector.

Theory Group

• S. P. Martin (faculty), P. N. Bhattiprolu (graduate student), “Search for Vector Like Leptons (VLL)”, studies of the prospects for exclusion or discovery of VLL particles at the current 13 TeV LHC (also at high luminosities) and the future colliders (27 TeV and possibly 100 TeV) by looking for Multi-lepton final states.

Fermilab Muon Campus Accelerator Physics

M. Syphers (professor), N. Froemming (post doctoral associate), P. Chintalapati (master student)

• GEANT + G4beamline simulations for Muon g-2 and Mu2e experiments

REDTOP experiment at Fermilab

C. Gatto (faculty), Vito Di Benedetto (Fermilab scientist)

• High intensity frontier experiment searching for physics beyond the Standard Model

Proton Radiology and Computed Tomography

G. Coutrakon (professor), Christina Sarosiek (graduate student)

• GEANT4 simulations for PCT experiments