Eric Prebys

(This page last updated 12/14/07)

General

Scientist II Accelerator Division / Proton Source Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Office:	LIG-144 (Linac Gallery)
Phone:	630-840-8369
Fax:	630-840-2170
Email:	prebys@fnal.gov
Address:	MS307, Fermilab                                           P.O. Box 500 Batavia, IL 60510

Current Responsibilities and Research Activities:

• Proton Source Department Head

• Proton Plan Project Manager
•  muon 2 electron (mu2e) conversion experiment - Co-Contact Person
• MiniBooNE - Search for neutrino oscillations
• Lee Teng Undergraduate Internship - Committee Chair
• Accelerator Physics Center (APC) - Muon Collider Task Force (MCTF)
• Fermilab Colloquium Committee member
• Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Austin

Previous Research Activities

• BELLE (B-Factory at KEK, Tsukuba City, Japan), a study of CP violation in the B-meson system.
• SLAC Experiment E144 , a study of QED at very high fields.
• Superconducting Super Collider, Dallas, TX (no lab, no link, no point).
• The OPAL experiment at LEP, study of e+e- interactions at the Z resonance.
• Fermilab experiment E706, a study of direct photon production in hadronic interactions.

Employment and Educational History

• 2001 -> Present: Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• 1994->2001: Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University
• 1992->1994: Research Associate, Princeton University
• 1990->1992: Scientific Associate, European Laboratory for High Energy Physics (CERN)
• 1990: PhD in Physics, University of Rochester
• 1984: BS in Engineering Physics, University of Arizona

Selected Presentations:

• "Mu2e: Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment at Fermilab" - Talk Given to Fermilab PAC, 11/2/07 (PowerPoint,PDF)
• "MiniBooNE: First Results" - High Energy Seminar, UT Austin, 4/30/07 (PowerPoint)
• "Fermilab Accelerator PhD Program" - Talk to UT Austin grad students, 5/01/07 (PowerPoint)
• "Particle Physics/Accelerator Physics" - Rotolo Middle School  Career Day, 4/05/07 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• “MiniBooNE and NuMI – Why do They Need so Many Protons?”, Accelerator Division Seminar, Fermilab, 10/06/2005 (Powerpoint, PDF)
• “The future of the Fermilab Neutrino Program”, Colloquium at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 9/29/2005 (Powerpoint, PDF)
• "The Art of Applying to Graduate School", Talk given to summer students, 6/16/05 (PowerPoint,PDF)

• "Particle and Accelerator Physicist", Talk given at Rotolo Middle School Career Day, 4/5/07 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• "Accelerator Physics Basics", Talk giving to MiniBooNE Summer Students, 6/16/03 (PowerPoint)
• "The Mirror Crack'd: History and Status of CP Violation Studies", University of Rochester Physics Colloquium, 9/26/01. (PowerPoint, Gzipped PostScript, Acrobat)
• "CP Violation in the B Meson System: The Belle Measurement of sin2f1", Beams Division Seminar at FNAL , 4/26/01 [some extra general slides at end]. (PowerPoint, Gzipped Postscript, Acrobat)
• "E144 - A Study of High Field QED", Seminar at University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, 1/30/01. (PowerPoint, Gzipped PostScript, Acrobat)
• "Satellite Imagery: A New Approach to Introductory Physics". (PowerPoint, Gzipped PostScript, Acrobat)
• "Experimental Techniques in Particle Physics", Guest Lecture in Phy 312, 4/24/00 - Some good stuff on basic HEP and principles of detection (PowerPoint, Gzipped Postscript, Acrobat)
• Complete talk archive.

Other:

• Family website
• Fun and General Interest
• Physics FAQ - General physics info
• Wikipedia - Open source encyclopedia of EVERYTHING
• www.archive.org  - The whole web archived every few months!!!!
• Snopes: The Truth Behind Urban Legends