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Faculty ProfileRostislav Konoplich
Education:
Teaching:I have enjoyed teaching physics and mathematics for about 30 years. I have been at Manhattan College since 2001, where I usually taught Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Astronomy, and Great Ideas in Physics. Research:My research interests lie at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. The 20th century brought breathtaking discoveries about the nature of the Universe. It was found that the Universe is about 10 billion years old and expanding, and that the Standard Model of elementary particles provides a detailed understanding of ordinary matter. However, now we know that the ordinary matter contributes only 5 percent of the stuff of the Universe. Most of the Universe is mysterious and invisible in the form of dark matter and dark energy. The challenge for scientists is to find a true understanding of these discoveries. What is the dark matter and dark energy? How did the Universe begin? Which particles were presented in the early Universe and which of them still exist in the present Universe? Supersymmetric particles or heavy neutrinos, created in the Big Bang, are the most promising ideas for what the dark matter could be. If there are these particles, we should be able to detect their presence with detectors in space or on the Earth. I develop models describing these particles and analyze possibilities of their experimental discovery. I am a member of ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, will bring significant advances in our knowledge of matter and the Universe. Recent Publications:May heavy neutrinos solve underground and cosmic ray puzzles? Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 71, No.1, 148-162 (2008), K.M.Belotsky, D.Fargion, M.Yu.Khlopov, R.V.Konoplich A New Approach for Reconstructing SUSY Particles Masses with a few fb^-1, ATLAS Communications, Physics, ATL-COM-PHYS-2007-059 (2007), R.M.Djilkibaev, R.V.Konoplich The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS collaboration, ATLAS Communications, Physics, ATL-COM-PHYS-2007-098(2007) Diversity of universes created by pure gravity, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24, 1261-1278 (2007), K.A.Bronnikov, R.V.Konoplich, S.G.Rubin Collection of tests for monitoring of students' performance, Physics. K11. Moscow, Intellect center, 2007, R.V.Konoplich, V.A.Orlov He3 experimentum crucis for Dark Matter puzzles. astro-ph/0606350(2006), K. Belotsky, Yu. Bunkov, H. Godfrin, M. Khlopov, R.Konoplich Heavy neutrinos of 4th generation in searches for dark matter. Gravitation & Cosmology, 11, No.1-2, 16-26 (2005), K.Belotsky, D.Fargion, M.Khlopov, R.V.Konoplich Contact Information:
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