jag photo Department of Physics
University of Maryland
2208G P.S.C.
goodman@umd.edu
301-405-6033

Jordan Goodman is a Distinguished University Professor, past Chair of the University Senate and the former Chair of Physics Department at the University of Maryland. His area of research, Particle Astrophysics, studies cosmic radiation to better understand the properties of elementary particles and the processes in space that produce these particles. This field blends elements of high energy physics and astrophysics.

Starting with his Ph.D. work, which showed evidence for an abundance of heavy elements such as iron in high energy cosmic rays, he has worked to understand the nature of cosmic rays which hit the earth. Recently, his work has concentrated the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory

He is the Principal Investigator and past US spokesperson of the HAWC Experiment.

Awards

  • 2017 Yodh Prize in Cosmic Ray Physics
  • 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
  • Distinguished University Professor
  • Distinguished Educator Award - CMNS
  • Distinguished Alumni Award Dept. of Physics
  • UM President's Medal
  • Fellow AAAS
  • ACC Teaching Scholar
  • Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award Lecture - CTE
  • CMPS Distinguish Alumni Award
  • Kirwan Prize for Undergraduate Education
  • Fellow UM Academy of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
  • Richtmyer Lecture Prize– American Physical Society
  • USM Regents Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • UMCP Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • UM Presidential Award for Outstanding Service to the Schools

A CV can be found here.

Research

Recent/Selected Publications

“Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Abeysekara et. al., Phys.Rev.Lett. 124 (2020) no.2, 021102.

"Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation from HAWC Observations of Gamma Rays Above 100 TeV,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Albert et. al.,Physical Review Letters (APS) 2020, 124, 131101.

"The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations", The HAWC Collaboration: A. U. Abeysekara et al., Phys.Rev. D90 (2014) 122002; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.122002; December 2014

“Constraints on the Emission of Gamma-Rays from M31 with HAWC,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Albert et. al., ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 893 (2020).

“Constraining the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes with HAWC,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Albert et. al., JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS (2020).

 “Measurement of the Crab Nebula Spectrum Past 100 TeV with HAWC,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Abeysekara et. al., The Astrophysical Journal (IOP Publishing) 881, 134 (2019).

“Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Albert et. al., Phys.Rev.Lett. 124 (2020) no.2, 021102.

“Very-high-energy Particle Acceleration Powered by the Jets of the Microquasar SS 433,” HAWC Collaboration: A. Abeysekara et. al., Nature (Nature Publishing Group) 562, 82.(2018) 

"Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector", IceCube Collaboration (M.G. Aartsen et al.). Nov 20, 2013. Science 342, 1242856 (2013) DOI: 10.1126/Science.1242856

"Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube", IceCube Collaboration: M.G. Aartsen et al., May 16, 2013. 6 pp. Phys.Rev.Lett. 111 (2013) 081801 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.081801

"First observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube", IceCube Collaboration: M.G. Aartsen et al., Apr 19, 2013. 7 pp. Phys.Rev.Lett. 111 (2013) 021103, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.021103

"An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts", IceCube Collaboration: R. Abbasi et al., Nature 484, 351–354 (19 April 2012) doi:10.1038/nature11068

"“Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger" By LIGO Scientific and Others (B.P. Abbott et al.). Astrophys.J. 848 (2017) no.2, L12. 

"Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos", Super-Kamiokande Collaboration: Fukuda, Y., et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998) 1562-1567.