Dr. Paul A. Draper

Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington.

Welcome to my Web page. How to find me.

Aside from launching water balloons across campus and teaching my children how to break plumbing, my interests are:

Research

I am an experimental high-energy particle physicist by training. This means I play with the big toys. My research has been primarily at hadron-hadron colliders, and my chief interest is in the study of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD), our best guess as to what holds protons and neutrons together. I am involved with experiments at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Broohaven National Laboratory. If you want to find out more about our research group, click here.

Teaching

Lately, I've been teaching mostly introductory courses. Currently I'm teaching two courses:

PHYS 1402. (Physics for Liberal Arts and Business Majors and the Generally Terrified, second semester)

PHYS 1441. (General College Physics for Premeds and the like, first semester)

I also am involved with the distance education initiative at UTA. Among the things we are doing is developing an emedia physics title on CD-ROM and the Web.