HEP-A group at Florida Tech
Our group's research is currently centered on the CMS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and on Tracking R&D for the new ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab in the US . We are a member of the RD51 and DRD1 micropattern gas detector collaborations at CERN and of the eRD6 and eRD108 R&D consortia at BNL. With CMS, we are searching for signs of dark matter and fourth-generation quarks such as excited top quarks. We are also contributing to the muon upgrade of the CMS detector for the high-luminosity LHC (see photo below). In our labs on the Florida Tech campus we do particle detector R&D on Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and Micro Resistive-Well (uRWELL) detectors. We operate a Linux cluster with 180 CPU cores and 100TB of mass storage.
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Successful completion of our mass production of GEM chambers for the CMS GE1/1 forward muon upgrade. These chambers are now installed in the CMS detector. Mehdi, Stephen, Jacqui, Sarah, Dr. Hohlmann, Jerry, John, Michael, and Samantha.
HEP undergraduates Sarah and Jacqui preparing a micro-RWELL detector for assembly in our cleanroom.
GE1/1 GEM detectors installed in the endcap nose of the CMS experiment at CERN.
HEP A Group News
- Ph.D. students Bandar Alsufyani, Merrick Lavinski, and Erick Yanes win first prize with their team for their "long exercise" work in a CMS Data Analysis School at Fermilab in January 2024. Post-doc Tamer Elkafrawy is one of the facilitators of the school.
- Ph.D. student Merrick Lavinsky gives an oral presentation on the development of a large-area, low-mass GEM detector for the EIC at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium in Vancouver, Canada, Nov 2023
- Search for pair production of excited top quarks in the dileptonic final state in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)= 13 TeV (PDF), Loriza Hasa, PhD student, presented at the APS April meeting 2023, April 15-18
- The status of the GE2/1 and ME0 detector integration for the CMS muon upgrade (PDF) is presented by post-doc Tamer Elkafrawy at the CMS "Upgrade Days" event at CERN on 2/7/2023
- Insertion of last GEM superchamber into one of the CMS endcaps - 360° Live Streaming Event from CERN on 10/24/2019.
- The CDF and the D0 collaborations have been awarded the 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for "the discovery of the top quark and the detailed measurement of its properties." Dr. Hohlmann wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the top discovery at CDF. The EPS gives out this prize every two years (June '19).
- 2019 Award season: Devon Madden and Zach Paul are honored for their "Outstanding Undergraduate Student Oral Presentation" on our in-flight GEM R&D project at the annual meeting of the Florida Academy of Science, held at FIT this year. Sarah Arends and Stephen Butalla receive honorable mentions for their respective presentations at the same meeting. See also our conferences page (March '19).
- Rapper Consensus Visits Florida Tech 12/6/2018, from Florida Tech Now
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