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          Notre Dame high-energy physicists receive NSF award to continue work with CERN

          
            
              
                
                Published: September 17, 2013
              

              
                Author: Gene Stowe
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
           Notre Dame high-energy physicists (L to R) Mitch Wayne, Kevin Lannon, Colin Jessop, Randy Ruchti, Mike Hildreth and Nancy Marinelli (not pictured) worked with a number of international collaborators on the search for the Higgs boson

University of Notre Dame high-energy physicists have received a $2.4 million, three-year award from the National Science Foundation to continue their work on the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment on campus and at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The group’s work includes physics analysis central to the recent Higgs boson discovery.

The award is an increase of more than 10 percent above the group’s previous award, at a time when the NSF’s overall particle physics budget has been reduced by about 12 percent. “This grant renewal recognizes the accomplishments we’ve already made in CMS and will enable us to do even more,” said Mitchell Wayne, a principal investigator in the group. Other principal investigators are Michael Hildreth, Colin Jessop and Kevin Lannon. Randy Ruchti is a senior member of the group.



“The Notre Dame group has significant leadership roles in a number of key areas on the CMS experiment,” Wayne said, including building part of the detector, helping operate the detector while data was collected, developing software, analyzing data and working on upgrades to improve the detector’s performance.

In addition to the principal investigators, the grant helps support research faculty Dan Karmgard on campus and Nancy Marinelli at CERN, as well as recent hire Alexey Drozdetskiy, 10 to 12 graduate students, several undergraduate physics majors, two engineers, three technicians and travel costs.

“This award funds our base program, and adding in our other external awards for CMS, the group is bringing in well over $1 million per year in support of our CMS efforts,” Wayne said.

Contact: Mitch Wayne, 574-631-8475, mwayne@nd.edu

        

        
        
          
            
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