My research involves determining the characteristics of the fundamental interactions using both accelerator and non-accelerator techniques. In other words, High Energy Particle Physics.
Neutrinos are one tool to investigate the origin of mass.
There are puzzles in nature that would be explained if neutrinos were not massless particles. Massive neutrinos could oscillate from one type of neutrino to another while in flight. This long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment will begin to take data in 2004. Although neutrino oscillation experiments need to distinguish among the different types of neutrinos by their interactions, the tau neutrino interaction had never been detected until our recent Fermilab experiment. My other interests in High Energy Particle Physics include using the strange quark as a probe to investigate strong interaction production mechanisms, baryon structure, the interplay of the weak and the strong interactions, and symmetry violations.