James Miller
Faculty
(Professor)
Office: Physics Research Building, Room 379
Phone: 617-353-2659
Lab: Physics Research Building, Room 270
Phone: 617-353-9453
Email: miller@bu.edu
Website: http://g2pc1.bu.edu/~miller
Research Interests:
My interest for a number of years has been experimentally measuring rare or forbidden processes to probe for physics beyond the Standard Model. Recently I joined the nEDM experiment to be conducted at the SNS (high flux spallation neutron source) at Oak Ridge. I am in charge of electronics and simulations for this experiment which is in the development phase. Our experiment to measure the positive muon lifetime, at the Paul Schirrer Institut innear Zurich, Switzerland, is well-along, and we have lots of data in the bank which are being analyzed. Also, I am co-contact person for an experiment being proposed at Fermilab to measure the neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. this is another example of a forbidden proces, charged lepton flavor violations, which if detected would signal new physics. For many years I worked with my colleagues Professors Carey and Roberts on the muon g-2 experiment. It measured the magnetic anomaly of the muon to 1/2 part per million, and the result disagrees with the Standard Model prediction by more than three standard deviations. Also, in the 1990’s, I led the Boston university participation in the CPLEAR experment at CERN. It is notewrthy for being the only experiment which has detected T violation in an elementary particle interaction.
Education:
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon university