The high energy physics group at UC Davis performs experiments around the world to study the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions. Colliders, neutrino beams, reactors, and direct detection experiments provide complementary sensitivity in the search for new phenomena about our universe at the deepest level.
We've discovered the Higgs! On July 4, 2012, our CMS experiment at the CERN LHC announced the discovery of a new, Higgs-like boson with a mass around 126 GeV. UC Davis has made major contributions to CMS over the years. Read more by clicking the icon below.
Faculty: R. Lander*, D. Pellett*, W. Ko, P. Yager*, M. Tripathi, M. Chertok, J. Conway, R. Erbacher, R. Svoboda, M. Mulhearn. Senior researchers: J. R. Smith, R. Breedon, T. Cox. Our group also includes many postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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CMS - Compact Muon Solenoid at the CERN Large Hadron Collider Faculty: Chertok, Conway, Erbacher, Ko, Lander, Mulhearn, Pellett, Tripathi |
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CDF - Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Faculty: Chertok, Conway, Erbacher, Lander, Pellett |
LUX - Large Underground Xenon at DUSEL Faculty: Svoboda, Tripathi |
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ILC - International Linear Collider R&D Faculty: Lander, Pellett, Tripathi |
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Double CHOOZ, Chooz reactor, FRANCE Faculty: Svoboda |
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LBNE - Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment - Fermilab to DUSEL Faculty: Svoboda |
Last updated 4/23/11. Questions? Contact M. Chertok
