Experimental Particle Physics Group Led by Professors E. Barberis and D. Wood is Awarded a $1.35M NSF Grant

In July 2017, the  experimental particle physics group at Northeastern led by Professors Barberis and Wood was awarded a $1.35M NSF grant, covering the research efforts of the group for the next 3 years. Barberis and Wood pursue inquiries at the energy frontier of physics research with the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, in 2012 ushered in a new era of discovery at the LHC—what is the nature of the dark matter that appears to make up most of the mass of galaxies? Are there other fundamental symmetries of nature or elementary particles that have yet to be discovered? To address these questions, the group, consisting of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, work with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector on the LHC. They extract information from the collisions, study how particle interact, and search for new particles, that could be the building blocks for dark matter, or signatures of new symmetries.

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