Physics Department
The Omega Group
In the early 1970’s the Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Department reorganized the experimental high energy physics groups. A vote was held for the name of one of the groups and the majority chose “Omega” in recognition of their discovery of the W-, the baryon made of three valence strange quarks, first seen in the BNL 80” bubble chamber in 1964. More...
Current Experiments
Omega Group members are collaborators on the following experiments:
- ATLAS Experiment (CERN: Geneva, Switzerland)
- US ATLAS Collaboration
Past Projects
- Discovery of the Omega-.
- 1974, Members of Omega group discovered the first charmed baryon Lc and Sc.
- 1977 First observation of Upsilon decay into 2 electrons (CERN).
- Discovery of direct photons. (CERN)
- Observations of first high transverse momentum jets in proton-proton collisions. (CERN)
- Observation of the difference between pion and proton structure functions from inclusive p0 production (FNAL)
- 1995 observation of the top quark (D0: FNAL)
- AGS Experiment 821 - Measuring g-2 of the Muon - Measurement of the anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon to 0.7 ppm
- AGS Experiment 865 - K+ -> pi + mu + e
- Other Notable Results
BNL and Other US ATLAS Links
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