Professor Craig Blocker does research in experimental elementary particle physics. Along with the other members of the Brandeis High Energy Physics group, he works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the international particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The Higgs boson, discovered at the LHC in 2012, was the last piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. However, there are still unanswered questions in fundamental physics (such as, "What is dark matter?") and other compelling reasons to believe that there is more to particle physics than the Standard Model. His recent research has concentrated on trying to find possible clues to physics beyond the Standard Model.
Organizational Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of Physics,
Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University