Eric Prebys

(This page last updated 24-AUG-2021)

This is my personal webspace at UC Davis.  It's largely made up of content moved from my old site at Fermilab, after the lab disabled personal web pages, but it's also a place for content that doesn't work so well with Wordpress or other content management systems.

Related sites:

• My official UC Davis faculty page
  
• My UC Davis Wordpress page
• Original version of this page, originally at "home.fnal.gov/~prebys/", moved to UC Davis on August 23, 2021.  It will not be updated further.
  

General

Professor of Physics University of California, Davis
Office:	Department of Physics, Room 337 Jungerman Hall (CNL), Room 103
Email:	eprebys@ucdavis.edu
Address:	Jungerman Hall UC Davis One Shields Avenue                             Davis, CA 95616

• Curriculum Vitae
  

Current Responsibilities and Research Activities:

• Director, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory 
• muon 2 electron (mu2e) conversion experiment

Previous Research Activities

• Deputy Head, Fermilab Accelerator Physics Center (APC)
• In charge of proton injection for IOTA project.
• Lee Teng Undergraduate Internship - Program Director/Committee Chair
• LARP Director
• Snowmass 2013 (SnowMiss), Technical adviser to Energy Frontier Group
• Joint University - Fermilab Doctoral Program in Accelerator Physics and Technology - Committee Chair
• Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Austin
• Proton Plan Project Manager

• MiniBooNE - Search for neutrino oscillations

• 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, SSC Fellow
• 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

• 2017 -> present: Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis
  
• 2006 -> 2017: Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• 2001 -> 2006: 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:

(Note, some of these powerpoints require supporting video files, which can be found here)

• "Beam Delivery and Out of Time Extinction in the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab", Mu2e Student Talks, Fermilab, August 3, 2017 (PPT,PDF)
  
• "Beam Delivery and Out of Time Extinction in the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab", 2017 APS DPF Meeting, Fermilab, August 3, 2017 (PPT,PDF)
  
• "The Art of Applying to Graduate School", Talk given to summer students, 7/6/17 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• "Particle Accelerators", FNAL Summer Lecture Series, June 29, 2017 (PowerPoint, PDF, Videos: Mythbusters, Castle Bravo, Head-on, Parked Car)
  
• "Accelerator Physics", Lecture given at the Spring 2017 session of Saturday Morning Physics, Fermilab, April 22, 2017 (PPT, PDF, video files)
  
• "Accelerators and High Energy Physics", slides shown to students visiting from Case Western Reserve University (not very polished!), March 14, 2017 ( PowerPoint, PDF, video files)
  
• "Mu2e: Muon to Electron Conversion at Fermilab", colloquium given at UC Davis, February 22, 2017  (PPT,PDF)
  
• "Enlightened: Some Things we've Learned by Studying Light", Fermilab Ask-a-Scientist, December 4,2016 (PPT,PDF)
• Video file for embedded quantum double-slit demonstration.
• "Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) Facility", Seminar given and the UC Davis Physics Department, October 18, 2016 (PPT,PDF)
  
• "The Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics", Course given at the 2016 Summer Session of the USPAS, Ft. Collins, CO, June 13-24, 2016 (All course materials)
  
• "Particle Accelerators", FNAL Summer Lecture Series, June 9, 2016 (PowerPoint, PDF)
• "Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) Facility", Seminar given at University of Maryland IREAP, September 15, 2015 (PPT,PDF)
  
• "Increasing Power to the High Energy Neutrino Program: PIP-(I,II,III), talk given at DUNE Collaboration Meeting, September 3, 2015 (PPT,PDF)
  
• "Fermilab Accelerator Complex", lunch time talk given at "SeaQuest Academy", October 29, 2014 (PPT)
  
• "Hadron Accelerators", lectures given at the 2014 Fermilab-CERN Hadron Collider Physics Summer School, Fermilab, August 11-22, 2014
• Lecture 1: transverse motion, lattice functions, emittance (PPT, PDF)
• Lecture 2: longitudinal motion, tricks of the trade, colliders and luminosity (PPT, PDF,quench video file)
  
• Lecture 3: Tevatron, LHC, "The Incident", HL-LHC, What's next? (PPT, PDF)
  
• "Introduction to Accelerator Physics", Guest lectures for NIU Phy 790, March 18 and 20, 2014
• Main lecture on strong focusing and betatron motion (problem set)
• Supplemental lecture, incudling off-momentum particles, matching, colliding beams, and longitudinal motion.
• Zip file with lectures, problem set source, MADX example, g4beamline example, and root analysis files.
  
• "Accelerating Toward the Energy Frontier", Fermilab Ask-a-Scientist Talk, 3/2/14 (directory with powerpoint and video files)
  
• "Accelerator Physics", course taught at US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS), Knoxville, TN, January 20-31, 2014.
• "Energy: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch", (shorter version of my perpetual motion talk) given at Fermilab Ask-a-scientist, May 5, 2013 (Directory with Powerpoint file and associated video clips)
• "The Intensity Frontier at Fermilab", Joint HEP/Nuclear seminar at MSU, 4/12/13 (PowerPoint)
• "Extinction and Extinction Monitoring in the Mu2e Experiment", Talk given at the HB2012 Workshop, Beijing, China, September 17-21, 2012 (Powerpoint)
• "The Energy Frontier: Tevatron->LHC->??", Invited talk at 2011 April APS Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 5/1/2011 (PowerPoint)
• "Upgrade Path for the LHC and the Role of US Collaboration", Colloquium given at MIT, 9/20/10 (PowerPoint)
• "Energy: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch", (shorter version of my perpetual motion talk) given at Fermilab Ask-a-scientist, December 6, 2009 (Directory with Powerpoint file and associated video clips)
• "R&D Topics for the Phase II Upgrade of the LHC", Talk given at the VIIIth International Workshop in Memory of R.S. Sarantsev, Alushta, Ukraine, 9/4/09 (PowerPoint)
• "LHC: The New Frontier",  Talk given to Fermilab summer interns, 7/27/09 (PowerPoint) (this is a slightly updated version of MIT guest lecture)
• "Life After the Tevatron: The Intensity Frontier at Fermilab" - European Physical Society HEP Meeting, Krakow, Poland, 7/17/09 (PowerPoint)
• "Particle Physics/Accelerator Physics" - Rotolo Middle School  Career Day, 3/25/09 (PowerPoint)
• "LHC Status, Upgrade plans, and  US Contributions (LARP, LAFS, APL)", Presentation to DOE/NSF Joint Oversight Group on the LHC Program, 10/31/08 (PowerPoint)
• "Life After the Energy Frontier, The Future of Fermilab", Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, 9/18/08 (PowerPoint)
• "Energy: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" - Guest Lecture at Columbia University, 4/11/08 (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)
• “MiniBooNE and NuMI – Why do They Need so Many Protons?”, Accelerator Division Seminar, Fermilab, 10/06/2005 (Powerpoint)
• “The future of the Fermilab Neutrino Program”, Colloquium at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 9/29/2005 (Powerpoint)

• "Accelerator Physics Basics", Talk given 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)
• "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)
• "E144 - A Study of High Field QED", Seminar at University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, 1/30/01. (PowerPoint)
• "Satellite Imagery: A New Approach to Introductory Physics". (PowerPoint)
• "Experimental Techniques in Particle Physics", Guest Lecture in Princeton Phy 312, 4/24/00 - Some good stuff on basic HEP and principles of detection (PowerPoint)

Complete talk archive.

Other/Personal:

• Personal:
  
• My FaceBook page
• My blog
  
• Countries I've visited.
• Community theater productions I've been involved in, as an actor, tech, or musician.
• Stained glass projects I've created.
  
• Fun and General Interest:
• Snopes: The Truth Behind Urban Legends (check here before forwarding anything!)
  
• Physics FAQ - General physics info
• www.archive.org  - The whole web archived every few months. Lots of other public domain stuff, too.