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Assistant Professor of Physics
Colin W. Gay, a member of the Yale faculty since 1997, has been named the Horace D. Taft Assistant Professor of Physics.
Gay's research has focused on elementary particle physics, and he is currently studying B mesons to reach a greater understanding of the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter. In particular, he is exploring CP violations in B mesons, which create matter and anti-matter and are one of the requirements for the universe to exist.
With Michael P. Schmidt, professor of physics, Gay is a member of the Yale Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) Group. The CDF detector is a device used to study collisions of protons and anti-protons and is located at Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia, Illinois. Gay does much of his research at Fermilab, where the Yale CDF Group is currently rebuilding the silicon vertex detector, a precise device for measuring the positions of particles down to several microns (one-millionth of a meter).
At Yale, Gay teaches an undergraduate classical mechanics course and has taught nuclear and particle physics.
A native of Canada, Gay earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Toronto, where he majored in mathematics and physics. He continued advanced study there, earning M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. While at the University of Toronto he was a member of the E769 (TPL) Collaboration at the Fermi National Accelerator.
After earning his doctorate degree, Gay was a paid associate of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where he was also a member of the ALEPH collaboration, and was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow. He became a research associate at Harvard University in 1994, and began his affiliation with the CDF Group there. At Yale, he has continued work begun at Harvard as co-convenor of the CP Violation and Mixing Analysis Group.
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