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Patrick Draper

  • Assistant Professor of Physics, UIUC

  • Research topics: Quantum Optics
  • Contact: pdraper@illinois.edu
    (217) 300-8203
  • Office Location:
    M/C 704

Much of my research has been motivated by the electroweak hierarchy problem and the strong CP problem. I have worked on the physics of the Higgs boson, particularly in the context of supersymmetric solutions to the hierarchy problem; the cosmology of axion solutions to the strong CP problem and other axion-like dark matter candidates; and the experimental probes of other mechanisms that could address strong CP. I am also interested in more theoretical aspects of quantum field theory, particularly regarding nonperturbative phenomena in gauge theories, and in constraining effective field theories with ultraviolet consistency conditions.

Research Areas/Expertise:

  • Quantum Chromodynamics
  • Supersymmetry
  • Higgs bosons