The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a particle detector in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located near Geneva, Switzerland. The University of Wisconsin has an active team of scientists and engineers working on the experiment.
The group’s successful completion of the first LHC Run resulted in the discovery of the Higgs boson, thereby completing the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics. The second LHC Run resulted in establishing firmly the SM-like Higgs boson and began the era of detailed mapping of its properties. Preparations are on for the third LHC Run and upgrades of the detector for the High Luminosity LHC operations. In addition to the detailed SM measurements, the group continues to be involved in searches for dark matter, exotic decays, exotic particles, extra dimensions, supersymmetry or whatever else emerges in the debris from the LHC’s record-setting proton collision energies.
Group Members
Professors
Kevin Black, Tulika Bose, Sridhara Dasu, Matthew Herndon
Ph. D. Physicists
Isabelle De Bruyn, Camilla Galloni, Pieter Everaerts, Charis Koraka, Abdollah Mohammadi, Ajit Mohapatra, Laurent Pétré, Deborah Pinna, Alexandre Savin, Varun Sharma, Carl Vuosalo
Graduate Students
Anagha Aravind, Elise Chavez, He He, Shivani Lomte, Abhishikth Mallampalli, Justin Marquez, Susmita Mondal, Trevor Nelson, Ganesh Parida, Ryan Simeon, Victor Shang, Dylan Teague, Ho Fung Tsoi, Wren Vetens, Abigail Warden
Undergraduate Students
Romila Gargeshwari, Elias Mettner, Shloka Mohanty, C. (Bryan) Nee, Nadia Talbi, Nathan Wagner
Engineering Staff
Kiran Das, Robert Fobes, Tom Gorski, Aleš Svetek, Jesra Tikalsky
Emeriti
Sunanda Banerjee (Senior Scientist), Armando Lanaro (Senior Scientist), Richard Loveless (Distinguished Senior Scientist), Don Reeder (Professor), Wesley H. Smith (Professor)
Alumni
M. Anderson (Ph.D. 2011), M. Bachtis (Ph.D. 2012), W. Badgett (Scientist), Y. Baek (Postdoc), A. Belknap (Ph.D. 2015), J. Bellinger (Scientist), M. Blake (Engineer), J. Buchanan (Ph.D. 2019), C. Caillol (Postdoc), D. Carlsmith (Professor), M. Cepeda (Postdoc), Y. Chen (B.S. 2022), S. Cooperstein (B.S. 2014), S. Djuric (Postdoc), L. Dodd (Ph.D. 2018), K. Downham (B.S. 2020), J. Efron (Postdoc), K. Flood (Scientist), E. Friis (Postdoc), B. Gomber (Postdoc), L. Gray (Ph.D. 2012), K. Grogg (Ph.D. 2011), M. Grothe (Scientist), Z. Guo (Engineer), U. Hussain (Ph.D. 2020), M. Jaworski (Engineer), K. Jia (B.S. 2023), P. Klabbers (Scientist), J. Klukas (Ph.D. 2012), E. Koenig (BS 2018, Intern), J. Lackey (Engineer), C. Lazaridis (Ph.D. 2011), J. Leonard (Ph.D. 2011), A. Levine (Ph.D. 2016), A. Loeliger (Ph.D. 2022), K. Long (Ph.D. 2019), S. Lusin (Scientist), J. Madhusudanan Sreekala (Ph.D. 2022), W. Maier (Systems Programmer), R. Mahsem (B.S. 2022), I. Ojalvo (Ph.D. 2014, Postdoc), G. Ott (Engineer), T. Perry (Ph.D. 2016), E. Petruska (BS, 2021), A. Quinn (B.S. 2023), S. Rader (Director of Computing – Deceased), I. Ross (Ph.D. 2013), T. Ruggles (Ph.D. 2018, Postdoc), T. Sarangi (Scientist), N. Smith (Ph.D. 2018), S. Trembath-Reichert (M.S. 2020), J. Swanson (Ph.D. 2013), D. Taylor (Ph.D. 2017), M. Tost (BS 2019), N. Venkatasubramanian (BS 2022), M. Vicente (Engineer), M. Weinberg (Ph.D. 2011), N. Woods (Ph.D. 2017), Tae-Yang You (B.S. 2015)
ATTENTION: We are always recruiting new students interested in CMS research. Please contact Profs. Black, Bose, Dasu or Herndon
Group CMS Projects
- Research Results, Status and Future Plans
- Endcap Muon System – CSCs
(Project Manager: Dr. Isabelle De Bruyn, PI: Prof. Matthew Herndon) - Endcap Muon System – GEMs
(Project Manager: Dr. Pieter Everaerts, PI: Prof. Kevin Black) - Level 1 Trigger
(Lead Engineer Tom Gorski, On Site Manager: Dr. Sascha Savin, PI: Prof. Sridhara Dasu) - High Level Trigger
(PI: Prof. Tulika Bose) - Software and Computing — CMS Tier-2 Center
(Tier-2 Manager: Dr. Ajit Mohapatra, PI: Prof. Sridhara Dasu, US CMS S&C Deputy Manager Prof. Tulika Bose)
Group Student Training Material
- Introductory Papers on Physics Topics of interest to the group
- Unanswered Questions in the Electroweak Theory
- Higgs Boson Turns Ten
- Properties of the Higgs Boson Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider
- Searches for supersymmetry at high-energy colliders
- Dark Matter Searches at Colliders
- Indirect and direct search for dark matter
- Alternatives to an elementary Higgs
- General introductory talks on CMS and the LHC
- Tutorials for students joining the group
- C++ for physicists – Training Materials – from Charis (MP4)
- Unix command line tools
- C++ for particle physicists
- General Python tutorial, as CMS SW is driven using Python
- ROOT is used for data analysis. Access ROOT tutorial from main ROOT page
- CMSSW – a custom framework and applications based on that, which are used by CMS for simulation, reconstruction, calibration and analysis.
- CMS Data Analysis School – Pre-exercises (requires CERN accounts)
SWGuideCMSDataAnalysisSchoolPreExerciseFirstSet-CMS-TWiki.pdf (Use PDF if no CERN account)
Do the exercises on Wisconsin computers (login.hep.wisc.edu)! - Wisconsin –> CERN
Outreach & News Reports
- Smith interviewed on NPR radio show “Whad’Y Know?” on Feb. 18, 2012 (Starts 8 min 39 sec into show)
- Wisconsin State Journal on UW LHC Activities, from Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 Front Page (Smith)
- Slide Show of LHC and CMS design, assembly and commisioning history + UW connection ( PPTX, PDF)
- Wisconsin State Journal on LHC Restart (Smith)
- ABC TV Madison on LHC Restart (Smith)
- NBC TV Madison story marking LHC first beams (Dasu and Klukas)
- On Wisconsin article (Smith, Wu & Livny)
- Why Files (Klabbers)
- The UW Press Release about RCT
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