ROBERT DEAN SCHAMBERGER
Research Professor
Physics and Astronomy
dean.schamberger@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8084, Physics D-108 | (631)-632-8094, Physics D-115
Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2023 Mar 22)

Biography
Robert Dean Schamberger is a staff member and Research Professor in the Physics & Astronomy department at Stony Brook University. He got his PhD. from Stony Brook University in 1976. After graduating He participated in multiple Experiments at Fermi National Laboratory from his PhD theses experiment E14 through the DZero experiment at the Tevatron proton antiproton collider. Also in the 1980's he worked on the CUSB experiment at the Cornell electron-positron collider studying the Upsilon resonance's. He joined the ATLAS experiment in 2010, which along with the CMS experiment in 2012 made an historic discovery of the Higgs boson.

Research Statement
My primary research interests concentrate on studies of fundamental particles and their interactions, conducted at highest energy and intensity particle collider's. My major interest is in the development of the readout Electronics which requires continuous updating to handle the increases in rates and resolution over time. My long term physics goal is to understand the mechanism responsible for symmetry breaking of the electroweak sector of SM.

To that extent, I am currently working on the ATLAS Experiment as members of ATLAS collaboration, a large international group of physicists collecting data from proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7-14 TeV, the highest collision energy in the world at CERN’s (European Center for Nuclear Research) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. I became a member of ATLAS collaboration after the Fermilab Tevatron Proton antiproton collider closed down. I am an expert in the Liquid Argon Calorimeter detector and readout system, which is of the vital importance for such research.