{"id":4,"date":"2016-09-22T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-new.hep.wisc.edu\/cms\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:21:47","slug":"the-compact-muon-solenoid-group-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hep.wisc.edu\/cms\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Wisconsin CMS Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group’s successful completion of the first LHC Run resulted in the discovery of the Higgs boson, thereby completing the particle content of Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics. The second LHC Run resulted in firmly establishing the SM-like Higgs boson and the beginning of the era of detailed mapping of its properties. Analysis of data collected thus far, operations of the third LHC Run, and the upgrades of the detector for the future High Luminosity LHC are our current focus. 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. The electronics sub-group has designed, built and is upgrading portions of its trigger electronics systems. The computing sub-group operates one of the large university based computing systems for CMS. The UW group scientists, engineers and students based at CERN operate the trigger electronics and the muon detectors. The group is also broadly engaged in preparing for the future of the energy frontier physics, including studies of a potential 10-TeV muon collider in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Group Members<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Professors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Black<\/a>, Tulika Bose<\/a>, Sridhara Dasu<\/a>, Matthew Herndon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph. D. Physicists<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pieter Everaerts, Camilla Galloni, Charis Koraka, Shivani Lomte, Abhishikth Mallampalli, Abdollah Mohammadi, Ajit Mohapatra, Laurent P\u00e9tr\u00e9, Deborah Pinna, Alexandre Savin, Varun Sharma, Carl Vuosalo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Students<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ruaa Alharthy, Anagha Aravind, Elise Chavez, Roy Cruz, Justin Marquez, Kyla Martinez, Elias Mettner, Susmita Mondal, Cheng-Hsu (Bryan) Nee, Trevor Nelson, Jenna Roderick, Ryan Simeon, Taylor Sussmane, Mitanshu Thakore, Ameya Thete, Lael Verace, Abigail Warden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Students<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Moses Glassman, Cyrus Kianian, Ryan Khalili, Manu Korupulu, Justin Maina, Prateek Rao, Quentin Schultz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engineering Staff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Robert Fobes, Tom Gorski, Ale\u0161 Svetek, Jesra Tikalsky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emeriti<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sunanda Banerjee (Senior Scientist), Richard Loveless (Distinguished Senior Scientist),  Wesley H. Smith (Professor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alumni<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Michael Anderson (Ph.D. 2011), Michalis Bachtis (Ph.D. 2012, CMS Thesis Award), William Badgett (Scientist), Yong Wook Baek (Postdoc), Austin Belknap (Ph.D. 2015), James Bellinger (Scientist), Mathias Blake (Engineer), Dan Bradley (Software Engineer), James Buchanan (Ph.D. 2019), Cecile Caillol (Postdoc), Duncan Carlsmith (Professor), Maria Cepeda (Postdoc), Yuze Chen (B.S. 2022), Stephane Cooperstein (B.S. 2014), Kiran Das (Engineer), Isabelle De Bruyn (Scientist), Senka Djuric (Postdoc), Laura Dodd (Ph.D. 2018), Keegan Downham (B.S. 2020), Jonathan Efron (Postdoc), Kevin Flood (Scientist), Evan Friis (Postdoc), Bhawna Gomber (Postdoc), Lindsey Gray (Ph.D. 2012), Kira Grogg (Ph.D. 2011), Monika Grothe (Scientist), Ziliang Guo (Engineer), He He (Ph.D. 2025), Usama Hussain (Ph.D. 2020), Matthew Jaworski (Engineer), Kenny Jia (B.S. 2023), Pamela Klabbers (Scientist), Jeff Klukas (Ph.D. 2012), Evan Koenig (BS 2018, Intern), Joe Lackey (Engineer), Armando Lanaro (Senior Scientist), Christos Lazaridis (Ph.D. 2011), Jessica Leonard (Ph.D. 2011), Aaron Levine (Ph.D. 2016), Andrew Loeliger (Ph.D. 2022), Shivani Lomte(Ph.D. 2026), Kenneth Long (Ph.D. 2019), Sergei Lusin (Scientist), Jithin Madhusudanan Sreekala (Ph.D. 2022), Will Maier (Systems Programmer), Ryan Mahsem (B.S. 2022), Abhishikth Mallampalli (Ph.D. 2025), Isobel Ojalvo (Ph.D. 2014, Postdoc), George Ott (Engineer \u2013 Deceased), Ganesh Parida (Ph.D. 2026), Tom Perry (Ph.D. 2016), Elois Petruska (BS, 2021), Ashling Quinn (B.S. 2023), Steve Rader (Director of Computing \u2013 Deceased), Don Reeder (Professor), Ian Ross (Ph.D. 2013), Tyler Ruggles (Ph.D. 2018, Postdoc), Tapas Sarangi (Scientist), Victor Shang (Ph.D. 2024), Nick Smith (Ph.D. 2018), Dylan Teague (Ph.D. 2025), Stephen Trembath-Reichert (M.S. 2020),\u00a0 Ho-Fung Tsoi (Ph.D. 2024, CMS Thesis Award), Joshua Swanson (Ph.D. 2013), Nadia Talbi (B.S. 2025), Devin Taylor (Ph.D. 2017), Marc Tost (BS 2019), Nikhilesh Venkatasubramanian (BS 2022), Marcelo Vicente (Engineer), Wren Vetens (Ph.D. 2024), Mark Weinberg (Ph.D. 2011), Nate Woods (Ph.D. 2017), Tae-Yang You (B.S. 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATTENTION: We are always recruiting new students interested in CMS research. Please contact Profs. Black, Bose, Dasu or Herndon. Note that there are also traineeship opportunities with the group (TAC-HEP<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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