Deva O'Neil's Homepage

Physics Department
Bridgewater College, VA

My history:

I received my PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in June 2009, and my Bachelor's Degree in computational physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. I taught at the College of Wooster from 2009-2010 as a visiting professor.
My current field of study is in theoretical particle physics, especially electroweak symmetry breaking. My dissertation was on the Two-Higgs Doublet Model.

Research With Students

I have been working with the following undergraduate students on projects relating to electroweak symmetry breaking:

Andrew Blaikie, Electroweak Phase Transitions and Baryogenesis.
Andrew made the following movie as part of his simulation of baryogenesis. The blue bubbles represent transitions to a lower-energy state in which particles have mass; the red fluctuating background represents the initial, high-energy state of the universe, in which particles did not have mass. This transition occurred about 10^-13 seconds after the Big Bang.

Gerhardt Funk, Oblique Parameters and CP Violation in the Two-Higgs Doublet Model

Mike Winters, Oblique Parameters in the Two-Higgs Doublet Model. Mike Winters graduated from College of Wooster in 2010 with a double major in Physics and Music. His research includes the use of sound files to represent physical data. An article on Mike Winter's research is here.

For new Mathematica users, I have put together some sample Mathematica code (plus a few remarks about features of Mathematica.) You can download it in Mathematica notebook format here

If you need a good introduction to LaTeX, I recommend this one: Getting Started With LaTeX

Some background reading:
FermiNews article on CP-Violation and the Matter/Anti-Matter asymmetry (see page 8)

FermiNews article on Electroweak Symmetry Breaking