Professor Ko has been on our faculty since 1972, specializing in experimental
particle physics. His former Ph.D. students include:
Richard
Kass ('78), Professor of Physics, Ohio State University;
Gary Shoemaker ('83), Professor and Chair of Physics, California State University,
Sacramento;
Mike Cain ('84), Technical
Group Manager, XonTech, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama,
Roger
McNeil ('86), Professor and Chair of Physics, Lousiana State University;
David
Stuart ('92), Associate Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara;
Fengcheng Lin ('95), President
and CTO, Teralane Semiconductor (Shenzhen);
Jeff Rowe ('96),
Assistant Research Scientist, UC Davis Computer Security Laboratory.
Professor Ko has performed experiments in high energy physics laboratories around the world: he has surveyed inclusive reactions during the pioneer days of Fermilab; he has measured the structure of the photon in SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab) and DESY (Deutsches Elektonen-Sychrotron); he has studied electroweak symmetry breaking with the AMY experiment in Japan's KEK (Ko Energy Kenkyusho). All the experiments also searched for new particles and shot down many theorietical models.
Great discovery potentials for new physics including the Higgs mechanism of the electroweak symmetry breaking are expected at the upcoming LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is an LHC detector that contains many features we at U C Davis had proposed for high energy, high luminosity colliders (SSC EOI-7); in 1992 three U C campuses including U C Davis were the only U. S. signatories of the CMS Letter of Intent. Subsequently CMS was approved to be one of the two major LHC experiments and many U.S. groups joined. Professor Ko has maintained a major leadership role as the coordinator of software for the muon system that, as indicated by the middle name the collaboration, is of central importance to the experiment.
Honors and Awards
for
Winston T. Ko