Production of the H Dibaryon in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions. Search for Diffractive Dissociation of a Long-Lived H Dibaryon. I have broad interests in experimental nuclear and particle physics. The properties of matter and particles containing strange quarks have been of special, long-standing interest.
Normal matter is made of up and down quarks.
There are two additional families that are mysterious repetitions of the first having new conserved quantum numbers. The strange quark is a member of the second family. A hypernucleus is formed when one or more strange quarks are exchanged with those in a nucleus. The fact that the strange quark and the lambda particle of which it is a constituent are distinguished from the normal components of the nucleus is a source of the interesting properties of hypernuclei. Other research topics have included early studies of charm production and studies of muonic helium.