Research
High-Pressure Condensed Matter Physics
IU South Bend is a member institution of COMPRES: COnsortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences, and we are actively involved in experimental research at high pressure. Our mineral physics laboratory uses Diamond Anvil Cells (DACs) coupled with laser and synchrotron radiation to generate and investigate the pressure and temperature conditions found deep inside the Earth and other planets. We are also interested in the role of pressure, as a thermodynamic variable, for basic physics, chemistry and materials science. More...
Astro-Particle Physics
IU South Bend is participating in two astroparticle experiments. For the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory we are helping reduce background from Radon and developing techniques to improve the sensitivity of the Radon radio-assay system. For the PICASSO dark matter search experiment, we are studying acoustic properties of the detector, building ultrasonic transducers and preamplifiers for the detector, and studying methods for incorporating lead atoms into the WIMP target material to give the experiment, which is mainly sensitive to spin-dependent interactions, sensitivity to spin-independent interactions as well. More...
String Theory
Research in String Theory at IU South Bend focuses on Calabi-Yau compactification and mirror symmetry. We use methods from arithmetic geometry to investigate the relationship between Calabi-Yau manifolds and exactly solvable models. More...
High Energy Physics
IU South Bend students have the opportunity to work in experimental high energy physics with the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron. The D0 experiment studies the results of proton-antiproton collisions at the world’s highest energies. More...
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear physics research at IU South Bend primarily utilizes the accelerator facilities at Notre Dame's Nuclear Structure Laboratory and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Facility at Michigan State University. Our research focuses on reactions induced by radioactive beams and reactions of astrophysical interest. IU South Bend is a "Participating College" of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA). More...
