Robert Carey

Education: AB, AM, PhD, Harvard University

Field of Research: Experimental High Energy Physics

Research Statement: Our group's current research involves a new measurement, at the level of 0.35 parts per million, of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g-2). At Boston University, our group developed the front-end electronics for reading out the photomultiplier signals, a system which must be time stable at the level of 20 ps. We took our first data in the spring of 1997 and have followed that with a short run in 1998 and two large runs in 1999 and 2000. In January of 2001, we released our first major result on the muon anomaly, which is 2.6 sigma above the standard model prodiction. Starting in February 2001, we will run with negative muons for the first time, which will provide a stringent test of CPT symmetry.