Wesley Smith
Leader of the Wisconsin Particle Physics Group, member of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Bjorn Wiik Professor of Physics College of Letters and Science Work: 608-262-4690 — Home and cell phones available upon request wsmith@hep.wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- The Higgs boson: studying the origins of mass
- Supersymmetry that links mass particles with force particles, the dark matter making up most of the universe and extra dimensions.
- Development of particle physics detector technologies.
Achievements
- Led design, construction, commissioning and operation of the system that selected all of the data used in the discovery of the Higgs-like boson by CMS.
- Built electronics systems that selected the physics signals for the Higgs-like boson to 2 photons signature discovery.
- Led group that produced a number of the important measurements of the Higgs-like Boson Signal
- Fellow, American Physical Society