Edward N. May

Received a Ph.D in experimental particle physics from Rochester University (1976) for the study of the photo-production of vector mesons at 10Gev Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory for which I constructed a liquid lead per chlorate electromagnetic calorimeter.  As a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory HEP (1977-1982) I constructed two cylindrical wire proportional chambers with delay-line readout around a liquid hydrogen target for and participated in a series of experiments with the Effective Mass spectrometer at the Argonne ZGS. As an assistant physicist (1983-1988) I participated in the proposal, design, construction and operation of the Soudan2 Proton Decay experiment at the Soudan Mine in Minnesota. My principle contribution were the detector simulation, design, construction and operation of the data acquisition and trigger systems. As a physicist I worked on detector simulation and the design of offline data processing for the ​‘ill-fated’ SSC Laboratory and SDC detectors. This effort was redirected to the Atlas Experiment at the CERN LHC. I worked on the design and operation of parallel and distributed computing systems for detector simulations in world-wide GLOBUS based grid network environment. This served as a prototype and evolved into the current LHC Data Grid for analysis of LHC data. Upon retirement, I have continued to work part-time designing, building and operating small data acquisition systems for testing of prototype detectors designed and constructed at ANL-HEP which include a resistive-plate-chamber based hadron calorimeter and micro-channel-plate based photo-detectors. I have begun to study Quantum Computing and I am interested in the application to Quantum Sensing devices as applied to HEP.