Luther physics professor receives National Science Foundation grant

Luther College physics professor Todd Pedlar has been awarded a three-year grant renewal from the National Science Foundation for 2015-18.

The $150,561 grant will support Pedlar's work and that of his research students in elementary particle physics.  Pedlar's primary concentration is the study of the physics of heavy quark systems.

Pedlar is one of 600 physicists from around the world who work together on a large particle physics experiment based at KEK, the national high energy physics laboratory in Japan.  Pedlar and his students are analyzing data from the Belle experiment and are preparing for upcoming experimental runs which will begin in 2017.