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there is a common misconception that the large hadron collider (lhc) was built only to search for the higgs boson it is intended to answer many different questions about subatomic particles and the nature of our universe so the collision data are reused by thousands of scientists each studying their own favorite questions usually a single analysis only answers one question but recently one cms analysis addressed three different new physics: dark matter extra dimensions and unparticles the study focused on proton collisions that resulted in a single jet of particles and nothing else this can only happen if some of the collision products are invisible for instance one proton may emit a jet before collision and the collision itself produces only invisible particles the jet is needed to be sure that a collision took place but the real interest is in the invisible part sometimes the reason that nothing else was seen in the detector is mundane particles may be lost because their trajectories missed the active area of the detector or a component of the detector was malfunctioning during the event more often the reason is due to known physics: 20 percent of z bosons decay into invisible neutrinos if there were an excess of invisible events more than predicted by the standard model these extra events would be evidence of new phenomena texas a&m universitys teruki kamon is one of the us scientists who contributed to this analysis these are some of the us physicists who are developing the stage 1 upgrade algorithms for the cms level 1 calorimeter trigger the algorithms will significantly improve the performance of the level 1 trigger system for the upcoming lhc run the classic scenario involving invisible particles is dark matter dark matter has been observed through its gravitational effects on galaxies and the expansion of the universe but it has never been detected in the laboratory speculations about the nature of dark matter abound but it will remain mysterious until its properties can be studied experimentally another way to get invisible particles is through extra dimensions if our universe has more than three spatial dimensions (with only femtometers of breathing room in the other dimensions) then the lhc could produce gravitons that spin around the extra dimensions gravitons interact very weakly with ordinary matter so they would appear to be invisible a third possibility is that there is a new form of matter that isnt made of indivisible particles these so-called unparticles can be produced in batches of 1-1/2 2-3/4 or any other amount unparticles if they exist would also interact weakly with matter all three scenarios produce something invisible so if the cms data had revealed an excess of invisible events any one of the scenarios could have been responsible follow-up studies would have been needed to determine which one it was as it turned out however there was no excess of invisible events so the measurement constrains all three models at once three down in one blow! lhc scientists are eager to see what the higher collision energy of run 2 will deliver -atm- contact: teruki kamon kamon@physicstamuedu
college station texas a&m university junior physics major nicholas p mondrik 15 has been named a 2014 goldwater scholar by the goldwater scholarship foundation in recognition of outstanding academic achievement mondrik is the 40th texas a&m student who has been recognized by the barry m goldwater scholarship and excellence in education program the nations most prestigious award for undergraduates in the sciences since the program was founded in 1986 in addition to mondrik sophomore environmental geosciences major amelie berger earned goldwater honorable mention honors mondrik a native of belton texas has worked in dr lin shaos ions and materials facility in the department of nuclear engineering and for dr darren depoy in the munnerlyn astronomical instrumentation lab currently he is working on heat transfer simulation for the virus project (visible integral-field replicable unit spectrographs) and on preliminary data from the dark energy survey underway in cerro tololo chile mondrik came across the goldwater scholarship when he was looking at websites with information on graduate school profiles and decided to check it out he wrote his research proposal on looking for outliers and variable stars in the dark energy survey data the ideal candidate is one who devotes significant time and effort not only in the classroom but also in the lab where acquired research tools are put into practice mondrik said a national merit scholar coming out of high school mondrik is also a society of physics students tutor for underclassmen his future pursuits include attending graduate school at princeton caltech cambridge or harvard to study astronomy or astrophysics the goldwater scholarship recognizes college students nationwide in the science mathematics and engineering fields selecting approximately 300 junior and senior students each year it is considered the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields scholarship recipients are selected based on a criteria composed of reference letters personal essays and research experience for additional information about the goldwater scholarship or other award programs visit texas a&m honors programs and undergraduate research -atm- contact: hayley cox hayleycox@exchangetamuedu the post texas a&m junior nicholas mondrik 15 named 2014 goldwater scholar appeared first on texas a&m college of science
texas a&m university junior physics major nicholas p mondrik 15 has been named a 2014 goldwater scholar by the goldwater scholarship foundation in recognition of outstanding academic achievement mondrik is the 40th texas a&m student who has been recognized by the barry m goldwater scholarship and excellence in education program the nations most prestigious award for undergraduates in the sciences since the program was founded in 1986 in addition to mondrik sophomore environmental geosciences major amelie berger earned goldwater honorable mention honors mondrik a native of belton texas has worked in dr lin shaos ions and materials facility in the department of nuclear engineering and for dr darren depoy in the munnerlyn astronomical instrumentation lab currently he is working on heat transfer simulation for the virus project (visible integral-field replicable unit spectrographs) and on preliminary data from the dark energy survey underway in cerro tololo chile mondrik came across the goldwater scholarship when he was looking at websites with information on graduate school profiles and decided to check it out he wrote his research proposal on looking for outliers and variable stars in the dark energy survey data the ideal candidate is one who devotes significant time and effort not only in the classroom but also in the lab where acquired research tools are put into practice mondrik said a national merit scholar coming out of high school mondrik is also a society of physics students tutor for underclassmen his future pursuits include attending graduate school at princeton caltech cambridge or harvard to study astronomy or astrophysics the goldwater scholarship recognizes college students nationwide in the science mathematics and engineering fields selecting approximately 300 junior and senior students each year it is considered the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields scholarship recipients are selected based on a criteria composed of reference letters personal essays and research experience for additional information about the goldwater scholarship or other award programs visit texas a&m honors programs and undergraduate research -atm- contact: hayley cox hayleycox@exchangetamuedu
batavia il the cdf collaboration at the us department of energys fermi national accelerator laboratory (fermilab) elected david toback as co-spokesperson on march 17 the texas a&m university physics professor will join fellow cdf spokesperson costas vellidis in leading the experiment toback began working with the cdf collaboration in 1991 while he was a graduate student at the university of chicago but his cdf connection goes back even before his graduate work toback has known cdf physicists and mentors henry frisch and mel shochet since high school and graduated with shochets oldest son from the university of chicago laboratory high school cdf has been good to me throughout my life and career toback said the cdf experiment is no longer collecting new data so the role of the spokesperson has changed over time toback said he wants to ensure that the group maintains a paper review process as strong as it has always been in the past so cdf can continue to produce high-quality publications the collaboration has a 400-person active author list my primary goal is to help support authors so they can publish the important legacy papers he said this includes measurements of the top mass the w mass the single top cross sections and the final word on the top forward-backward asymmetry toback will replace outgoing co-spokesperson luciano ristori beginning june 1 i have huge shoes to fill cdf owes him an enormous amount of gratitude toback said daves enthusiasm and persistence is exactly what we need to make sure we finish publishing all our final legacy results in a timely fashion ristori said toback is currently the thaman professor as well as a member of the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy at texas a&m on cdf he serves as co-convener of the top + beyond the standard model group toback led the team that built the timing system for the cdf electromagnetic calorimeter an important upgrade for tevatron run ii he is the author of the textbook big bang black holes no math texas a&m has been involved in cdf since its inception courtesy of co-founders peter mcintyre and robert webb three additional texas a&m professors ricardo eusebi teruki kamon and alexei safonov played lead roles in run ii for more information on texas a&m collider physics go to http://colliderphysicstamuedu/ -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or david toback toback@tamuedu the post david toback elected as new cdf co-spokesperson appeared first on texas a&m college of science
the cdf collaboration at the us department of energys fermi national accelerator laboratory (fermilab) elected david toback as co-spokesperson on march 17 the texas a&m university physics professor will join fellow cdf spokesperson costas vellidis in leading the experiment toback began working with the cdf collaboration in 1991 while he was a graduate student at the university of chicago but his cdf connection goes back even before his graduate work toback has known cdf physicists and mentors henry frisch and mel shochet since high school and graduated with shochets oldest son from the university of chicago laboratory high school cdf has been good to me throughout my life and career toback said the cdf experiment is no longer collecting new data so the role of the spokesperson has changed over time toback said he wants to ensure that the group maintains a paper review process as strong as it has always been in the past so cdf can continue to produce high-quality publications the collaboration has a 400-person active author list my primary goal is to help support authors so they can publish the important legacy papers he said this includes measurements of the top mass the w mass the single top cross sections and the final word on the top forward-backward asymmetry toback will replace outgoing co-spokesperson luciano ristori beginning june 1 i have huge shoes to fill cdf owes him an enormous amount of gratitude toback said daves enthusiasm and persistence is exactly what we need to make sure we finish publishing all our final legacy results in a timely fashion ristori said toback is currently the thaman professor as well as a member of the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy at texas a&m on cdf he serves as co-convener of the top + beyond the standard model group toback led the team that built the timing system for the cdf electromagnetic calorimeter an important upgrade for tevatron run ii he is the author of the textbook big bang black holes no math texas a&m has been involved in cdf since its inception courtesy of co-founders peter mcintyre and robert webb three additional texas a&m professors ricardo eusebi teruki kamon and alexei safonov played lead roles in run ii for more information on texas a&m collider physics go to http://colliderphysicstamuedu/ -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or david toback toback@tamuedu
scientists working on the worlds leading particle collider experiments have joined forces combined their data and produced the first joint result from fermilabs tevatron and cerns large hadron collider (lhc) past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on earth scientists from the four experiments involved atlas cdf cms and dzero announced their joint findings on the mass of the top quark today at the rencontres de moriond international physics conference in italy together the four experiments three of which have involved texas a&m university researchers pooled their data analysis power to arrive at a new worlds best value for the mass of the top quark of 17334 plus/minus 076 gev/c2 experiments at the lhc at the cern laboratory in geneva switzerland and the tevatron collider at fermilab near chicago are the only ones that have ever seen top quarks the heaviest elementary particles ever observed the top quarks huge mass (more than 100 times that of the proton) makes it one of the most important tools in the physicists quest to understand the nature of the universe this graphic shows the four individual top quark mass measurements published by the atlas cdf cms and dzero collaborations together with the joint and most precise measurement obtained in a joint analysis the atlas and cms experiment recorded top quark events using the large hadron collider at cern and the cdf and dzero experiments recorded top quark events using the tevatron collider at fermilab image courtesy atlas cdf cms and dzero collaborations (credit: cern/fermilab) dr darren depoy
college station make a date for free family fun and experience the many wonders of science and technology this weekend at the 2014 physics and engineering festival scheduled for saturday (march 22) on the texas a&m university campus no fees or tickets are required for the free annual event which will run from 10 am to 6 pm at the george p mitchell 40 physics building ride a square-wheeled bicycle run through a pool of cornstarch or shoot balloons with lasers three of the roughly 100 exciting interactive experiments that will be on display from 10 am to 5 pm the event also will feature three fantastic science circus performances at 11 am 1 pm and 2:30 pm by physics showman rhys thomas as well as lectures at 11 am 1 pm and 2 pm with nasa astronaut and professor dr gregory chamitoff and nobel prize winners dudley herschback and david lee the day will conclude with a 5 pm public lecture about possible ways the human race could be rendered extinct by astronomical phenomena by internationally recognized astronomer and blogger dr phil plait author of the popular book death from the skies! and the slate magazine blog bad astronomy all events are sponsored by a texas a&m tier one program (top) grant the department of physics and astronomy the department of aerospace engineering the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy and the texas a&m college of science the event is an affiliate festival of the 4th annual usa science and engineering festival for more information on an exciting afternoon guaranteed to please all ages and interest levels see the detailed press release or visit physicsfestivaltamuedu -atm- watch a promotional video courtesy of suddenlink communications: contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu the post physics & engineering festival set for saturday appeared first on texas a&m college of science
make a date for free family fun and experience the many wonders of science and technology this weekend at the 2014 physics and engineering festival scheduled for saturday (march 22) on the texas a&m university campus no fees or tickets are required for the free annual event which will run from 10 am to 6 pm at the george p mitchell 40 physics building ride a square-wheeled bicycle run through a pool of cornstarch or shoot balloons with lasers three of the roughly 100 exciting interactive experiments that will be on display from 10 am to 5 pm the event also will feature three fantastic science circus performances at 11 am 1 pm and 2:30 pm by physics showman rhys thomas as well as lectures at 11 am 1 pm and 2 pm with nasa astronaut and professor dr gregory chamitoff and nobel prize winners dudley herschback and david lee the day will conclude with a 5 pm public lecture about possible ways the human race could be rendered extinct by astronomical phenomena by internationally recognized astronomer and blogger dr phil plait author of the popular book death from the skies! and the slate magazine blog bad astronomy all events are sponsored by a texas a&m tier one program (top) grant the department of physics and astronomy the department of aerospace engineering the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy and the texas a&m college of science the event is an affiliate festival of the 4th annual usa science and engineering festival for more information on an exciting afternoon guaranteed to please all ages and interest levels see the detailed press release or visit physicsfestivaltamuedu -atm- watch a promotional video courtesy of suddenlink communications: contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu
editors note: one of the highlights of yesterdays (thursday aug 8) memorial tribute celebrating the life of george p mitchell 40 at the cynthia woods mitchell pavilion in the woodlands texas was a videotaped eulogy delivered by one of his lifelong heroes and friends world-renowned cambridge university theoretical physicist stephen w hawking the following is the transcript of that eulogy: george p mitchell was a remarkable individual who combined vision with wisdom and persistence through sheer hard work and dedication he leaves behind an extraordinary legacy it can be said of very few people that they changed the world but george mitchell is among those few i first met george in 2002 when chris pope flew him to see me in pasadena to persuade him to support physics at texas a&m university not that he needed much persuading george had been a strong backer of the superconducting super collider which would have been more powerful and earlier than the lhc but was cancelled half-built after our meeting george got things moving and when i visited texas a&m the following year there was already the george and cynthia mitchell center for fundamental physics which has since moved to splendid new premises through georges support texas a&m has become a leading university for research into physics and cosmology i am proud to remember him as a friend i had several happy visits to his beautiful nature reserve in texas where george did me and my colleagues the honor of allowing us to hold a physics conference while none of us can match georges ingenuity in geophysical discovery i am happy to say that i still managed to beat him in wheelchair racing even if it was only by a narrow margin loved admired and respected through his work in energy production his humanitarian generosity his academic curiosity and passion for inspiration and his wonderful warm family george p mitchell will live on in the hearts and minds of all who knew him stephen # # # # # # # # # # to learn more about george p mitchells keen interest in science his ties to prof hawking and the related history behind his rich legacy of visionary support for texas a&m physics and astronomy read a recent feature by houston chronicle science writer eric berger for additional personal insight on mitchell and interest not only in the frontiers of science but people like texas a&m physicist peter m mcintyre who are working to explore those see bergers follow-up feature in mcintyres own words to learn more about the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy visit http://mitchelltamuedu for more on mitchell and another of his visionary legacies the cynthia and george mitchell foundation go to http://cgmforg/ -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu the post stephen hawking eulogizes george mitchell as science visionary world-changer friend appeared first on texas a&m college of science share:
editors note: one of the highlights of yesterdays (thursday aug 8) memorial tribute celebrating the life of george p mitchell 40 at the cynthia woods mitchell pavilion in the woodlands texas was a videotaped eulogy delivered by one of his lifelong heroes and friends world-renowned cambridge university theoretical physicist stephen w hawking the following is the transcript of that eulogy: george p mitchell was a remarkable individual who combined vision with wisdom and persistence through sheer hard work and dedication he leaves behind an extraordinary legacy it can be said of very few people that they changed the world but george mitchell is among those few i first met george in 2002 when chris pope flew him to see me in pasadena to persuade him to support physics at texas a&m university not that he needed much persuading george had been a strong backer of the superconducting super collider which would have been more powerful and earlier than the lhc but was cancelled half-built after our meeting george got things moving and when i visited texas a&m the following year there was already the george and cynthia mitchell center for fundamental physics which has since moved to splendid new premises through georges support texas a&m has become a leading university for research into physics and cosmology i am proud to remember him as a friend i had several happy visits to his beautiful nature reserve in texas where george did me and my colleagues the honor of allowing us to hold a physics conference while none of us can match georges ingenuity in geophysical discovery i am happy to say that i still managed to beat him in wheelchair racing even if it was only by a narrow margin loved admired and respected through his work in energy production his humanitarian generosity his academic curiosity and passion for inspiration and his wonderful warm family george p mitchell will live on in the hearts and minds of all who knew him stephen # # # # # # # # # # to learn more about george p mitchells keen interest in science his ties to prof hawking and the related history behind his rich legacy of visionary support for texas a&m physics and astronomy read a recent feature by houston chronicle science writer eric berger for additional personal insight on mitchell and interest not only in the frontiers of science but people like texas a&m physicist peter m mcintyre who are working to explore those see bergers follow-up feature in mcintyres own words to learn more about the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy visit http://mitchelltamuedu for more on mitchell and another of his visionary legacies the cynthia and george mitchell foundation go to http://cgmforg/ -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu