Young-Kee Kim
Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
Curriculum Vitae
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Positions held:
Deputy Director of Fermilab (July 2006 - present)
Professor (Jan. 2003 - present) - Univ. of Chicago
Professor (July 2002 - Dec. 2002) - UC Berkeley
Associate Professor (July 2000 - June 2002) - UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor (July 1996 - June 2000) - UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct. 1990 - June 1996) - LBNL
Ph.D. (1990) - Univ. of Rochester
MS (1986), BS (1984) - Korea Univ., South Korea
Fellows and Prizes:
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1997)
APS Fellow (2004)
Ho-Am Prize (2005)
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As an experimental elementary particle physicist,
my main physics interests are to understand the orgin of mass and the origin of
the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter presently observed in our universe.
Most of my current research is at
the CDF experiment,
a high energy physics experiment operating at the Tevatron, which brings together an
international collaboration of over 800 physicists. Fermilab's Tevatron is
currently the world's highest energy accelerator, colliding protons with antiprotons at
a center-of-mass energy of 2 trillion volts. My group has played a major role
in the detector construction and operation as well as in the data analysis from this
experiment. In 1995, we, along with the sister experiment DZero,
discovered the sixth and perhaps final quark, called the top quark. I am also involved in
the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and the International Linear Collider R&D efforts.
Toward understanding the orgin of mass,
the emphasis of my research has been searches for the Higgs boson (which is
responsible for giving masses to elementary particles, thus the origin
of mass),
and the studies of the W boson
(carrier of weak force, responsible for radioactive decays) and
the top quark, nature's heaviest quark.
Through quantum corrections,
accurate measurements of the mass of the top quark and the mass of the W
boson provide information about the mass of the Higg boson. My group's most recent
work includes measuring the mass and lifetime of the top quark, searching for Higgs bosons,
searching for Supersymmetric partners of Standard model particles, and
discovery and measurement of the transition rate between Bs and its anti-particle (an important measurement for
understanding
the phenomena of the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter). See this page for
further information on
current activities.