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Theoretical High Energy Physics: Phenomenology

The Institute For Elementary Particle Physics

Phenomenology @ UW

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Researchers in the high energy phenomenology group pursue a broad range of topics in particle physics theory and phenomenology, including collider physics, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, the study of dark matter in the universe, cosmology, and other theoretical issues in physics beyond the Standard Model.

The phenomenology research program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began in the mid-1960’s as a collaboration of theoretical and experimental faculty. The Institute was created by the University in 1984 with support from the U.S. Department of Energy, with Vernon Barger and Francis Halzen as directors. The group’s mission is to promote research at the interface of theory and experiment in particle physics, with an emphasis on the interpretation of experimental data, the design of new experiments, and the construction and testing of theoretical models.