Harvard University Department of Physics

George Brandenburg is an experimental particle physicist and is the former director of Harvard's Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC). He worked at Fermilab for many years on the Collider Detector (CDF) experiment, which in 1994 found the first evidence for the existence of the top quark. More recently he worked on the CLEO experiment at Cornell studying the properties of beauty quarks, and served as the co-spokesperson of the collaboration during 1997-99. He is currently a member of the Harvard team which is working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He served as the U.S. coordinator for ATLAS muon chamber readout electronics, and has been coordinating the installation and commissioning of the ATLAS muon detector in anticipation of the first LHC collisions. ATLAS will by studying proton-proton collisions of unprecedented energy in the search for new physics such as the Higgs, Supersymmetry, and Extra Dimensions.