News
CMS Upgrades approved
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Phase-1 upgrades for the CMS detector, including the work of the UW CMS Trigger Team, are approved for construction with the attainment of the DOE Critical Decision 2/3 for a $43M project. Profs. Wesley Smith and Sridhara Dasu are leading the calorimeter trigger upgrade efforts at UW. The success is in part due to excellent hardware and firmware designed by UW engineers. Featured here is this year's UW academic staff award winner Mr. Tom Gorski's CTP7 board, sporting the highest-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Virtex-7 and ZYNQ from Xilinx Inc.
Using the Higgs boson to search for clues
Friday, August 1, 2014
Wisconsin postdoc Maria Cepeda and graduate student Aaron Levine were instrumental in this CMS study of non-standard model Higgs couplings in search of clues regarding new physics.
The next generation dark matter experiment LZ which involves 7 tons of xenon has been approved.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
CMS presents evidence for Higgs coupling to fermions
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Wisconsin group played a leading role in presenting evidence for Higgs coupling to fermions. Graduate students Joshua Swanson and Isobel Ojalvo, undergraduate student Stephane Coopertein did crucial work on Higgs decays to tau-leptons. Prof. Sridhara Dasu co-led the CMS group that performed this analysis.
Hilldale Research Fellowships Awarded
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Two students in the Department of Physics have received Hilldale Faculty/Undergraduate Research Fellowships for 2014-15 academic year: Aaron Stemo, working with Professor Cary Forest, and Nicholas Derr, working with Drs. Susan Nossal and Edwin Mierkiewicz.
CMS Trigger Upgrades
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
UW physicists are hard at work upgrading the trigger system for the CMS experiment at the LHC, which is in the middle of a maintenance period in preparation for higher energy collisions in 2016. Graduate student Tom Perry takes a break from this work to give the public an explanation of what the trigger system is, using a bowl of party mix.
A 2D array of up to 49 atomic qubits is being used for entanglement and quantum computing experiments.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
A 2D array of up to 49 atomic qubits is being used for entanglement and quantum computing experiments. The array is loaded stochastically and the movie shows digitized data of single atom occupancies in the array.
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Undergraduate Frontier Fellows
Friday, January 24, 2014
Congratulations to Anna Christenson and Bai Wang for being named 2014 Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Undergraduate Frontier Fellows.