David Bailey

Particle Physics (Experimental)

Experimental high energy physics, exotic physics, error analysis, monte carlo simulation, physics education. 

Telephone: 416-978-4993                      Fax: 416-978-8221

e-mail: dbailey @physics.utoronto.ca

Address: Physics Department , 60 St. George Street, University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada M5S 1A7 

Office:  McLennan Physics Room 919

Research Interests

The universe contains a bewildering variety of structures and processes - stars, fire, people, sunshine, and much more - yet behind all these different phenomena is thought to be a small number of different elementary particles interacting through a few fundamental forces. How can we determine the nature and existence of these basic constituents and interactions ?

The Standard Model of particle physics has sucessfully described every relevant and confirmed experimental result for more than 20 years, but this theory is known to be incomplete and it will break down at high enough energies. The ATLAS experiment is currently being constructed for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to observe the new phenomena that must occur.

New discoveries are not always found in the obvious places, and I have a special interest in exotic physics, e.g. leptoquarks, new forces, millicharged particles, extra timelike dimensions, variable constants. ....  The more surprising a result, the more likely it is to be wrong, so my enthusiasm for exotic physics is moderated by a strong interests in experimental errors and monte carlo methods.

Teaching is meaningless if it doesn't help students learn, so I have a strong interest in Physics Education Research, especially in how to best help students learn the skills of a physicist..

Publications (from SLAC SPIRES database )

Teaching

My favourite example of why teaching matters is "The Amazing Miss A" .
2002-2009
2001-2002
1999-2000
1998-1999