Don Lincoln
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Don Lincoln is an American particle physics researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and adjunct Professor
of Physics
at the University of Notre Dame
. He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University
in 1994. In 1995, he was a codiscoverer of the top quark
. He has coauthored hundreds of research papers and, more recently, contributed to ruling out possible values of the Higgs boson
's mass.
Lincoln is a public speaker and science writer and has contributed many science articles in magazines that include Analog Science Fiction and Fact
in July 2009. He is also author of two books describing particle physics written for the public. These are "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos" (2004) and "The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider" (2009).
In recent years, he has been heavily involved in research using the DZero detector at the Fermilab
Tevatron
and also at the Compact Muon Solenoid
(CMS) on the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN
. His popularizations also include columns that translate CMS (monthly) and DZero (biweekly) physics measurements for the public.
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
. He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
in 1994. In 1995, he was a codiscoverer of the top quark
Top quark
The top quark, also known as the t quark or truth quark, is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Like all quarks, the top quark is an elementary fermion with spin-, and experiences all four fundamental interactions: gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and...
. He has coauthored hundreds of research papers and, more recently, contributed to ruling out possible values of the Higgs boson
Higgs boson
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle that is predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. Its existence is postulated as a means of resolving inconsistencies in the Standard Model...
's mass.
Lincoln is a public speaker and science writer and has contributed many science articles in magazines that include Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2011, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of that genre...
in July 2009. He is also author of two books describing particle physics written for the public. These are "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos" (2004) and "The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider" (2009).
In recent years, he has been heavily involved in research using the DZero detector at the Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics...
Tevatron
Tevatron
The Tevatron is a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , just east of Batavia, Illinois, and is the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider...
and also at the Compact Muon Solenoid
Compact Muon Solenoid
The Compact Muon Solenoid experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and France. Approximately 3,600 people from 183 scientific institutes, representing 38 countries form the CMS collaboration...
(CMS) on the Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....
at CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
. His popularizations also include columns that translate CMS (monthly) and DZero (biweekly) physics measurements for the public.