Dean Karlen, University of Victoria

Professor, Department of Science Victoria, British Columbia karlen@uvic.ca Office: (250) 721-6585

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Accelerator development Electroweak physics Linear Collider Detector Neutrino physics Particle and radiation detectors Particle physics

Bio/Research

Prof. Karlen has participated in particle physics experiments around the world. Beginning in the 1980s with the Mark-II experiment at SLAC, USA, and then in the 1990s with the OPAL experiment at CERN, Switzerland, he studied aspects of the standard model of particle physics with high energy electron-positron collisions. In the past decade, he helped lead the effort to develop and demonstrate the performance of a new type of precision detector, known as a micropattern Time Projection Chamber, for a future high energy linear electron-positron collider. He then led the project to incorporate this technology into the long baseline neutrino experiment, T2K in Japan, where three large volume detectors have been operating in the underground near detector facility since 2009. He now plays an active role in scientific and operational aspects of the T2K experiment. Prof. Karlen is the principle investigator for the project funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Government of BC to build a superconducting electron accelerator at TRIUMF, as part of the ARIEL project, and is currently the director of the Victoria Subatomic Physics and Accelerator Research Centre (VISPA).

Prior to coming to the University of Victoria and TRIUMF in 2002, Prof. Karlen was a professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University, in Ottawa.

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