Bill Bugg

Biography

Professor William Bugg received his A.B. degree in physics in 1952 from Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in 1959 from the University of Tennessee, where he joined the faculty. From 1969 until 1996, he served as head of the Department of Physics before stepping down to resume full-time research and teaching. His research specialty is high energy physics and began with nuclear modifying emulsion and bubble chamber studies. Since 1974 he has been involved in the construction and operation of numerous large detector systems for experiments at Fermilab and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; including PWCs, drift chambers, Pb-Glass Cherenkov counters, scintillator hodoscopes, and calorimeters. His interest in silicon detectors for high energy physics experiments began in 1984, resulting in construction of precision silicon calorimeters for Luminosity Monitor/Small Angle Tagger for SLD, the first of large e+e- detectors to use this technique for luminosity measurement. He was an early proponent of silicon calorimetry for SSC/LHC use and participated in the development of radiation hard fast electronics for SSC calorimeters and has carried out research on radiation hardness of such devices. Dr. Bugg is a fellow of the American Physical Society and currently serves IEEE as vice president of the NPSS Administrative Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Instruments and Detectors Committee.

Research Interest

experiment involves the use of a large detector to study the production and decay of Z0 intermediate vector bosons in electron positron collisions at the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC)