Tao Qian, Ph.D

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 S 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel: +1 215-898-5401
Fax: +1 215-898-2010
Email: tqian at sas.upenn.edu
             Qian Tao

Research Interests

My research interests are on experimental particle astro-physics and observational cosmology, aiming to understand the properties of dark matter and dark energy. In the experiments, I work on the software developments of the data acquisition system, develop and perform Monte Carlo simulation, and conduct data analysis.

I received my Ph. D. in physics from University of Minnesota in 2006. My Ph.D. thesis advisor was Professor Priscilla Cushman. I worked on the Muon (g-2) Experiment which tests the Standard Model by measuring the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon to unprecedented precision. We have reached 0.5 part per million (ppm) precision in 2001. My doctoral thesis topic was to analyze the Muon lifetime using the Muon (g-2) Experimental data.

Here is my CV.

Current Research

I am currently working on Dark Energy Survery project as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Professor Bhuvnesh Jain's group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Pennsylvania. I worked in Professor Jon Thaler's group at the Department of Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dark Energy Survey project will build a new extremely red sensitive 500 Megapixel camera at Cerror Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. One of our missions at UIUC is to build a data acquisition system fast enough to take images in 17 seconds.

DES logoResearch on Dark Energy Survey

MONSOON logo Work on MONSOON Image Acqusition System

Publications

G. W. Bennett, et al.(Muon (g-2) Collaboration), Final report of the E821 muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement at BNL, Physical Review D 73, 072003 (2006)

G.W. Bennett, et al.(Muon (g-2) Collaboration), Measurement of the Negative Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm, Physical Review Letters 92, 161802 (2004)

G.W. Bennett, et al.(Muon (g-2) Collaboration), Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm, Physical Review Letters 89, 101804 (2002)

Tao Qian, et al. Non-equilibrated Emission of Intermediate-Mass Fragments, Chinese Physics Letters Vol. 15 No. 4 (1998) pp255-257

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