Darien Wood

Sponsor: NSF

Experimental Particle Physics Research at High Energies

This grant supports the work of three faculty members at Northeastern University (Barberis, Orimoto, and Wood) plus several postdoctoral researchers and students on the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The program includes analysis of CMS data in carefully chosen physics topics, including searches for leptoquarks and for the production of pairs of Higgs bosons, and measurements of standard model production of W+jets and ZZ pairs. It also includes support and development of the current detector for taking new data, and development of instrumentation upgrades that will enable CMS to exploit future high luminosity running of the LHC(HL-LHC). The group has leading roles in the operations and upgrades of the CMS Muon system, the muon trigger, the electromagnetic calorimeter, and the new MIP timing detector.