Mar 28 • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Seminar on Research, Leadership, and Innovation 2019: Using a (Very) Large Hadron Collider to Find (Very) Small Particles

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What can tiny subatomic particles teach us about the nature of the universe? What would make a particle a “god-particle?” How do you bring together thousands of collaborators from dozens of nations to build and operate the world’s largest machine, which cost $9 billion, is 17 miles wide and 574 feet underground, and straddles an international border? Darien Wood is currently studying high energy (13 TeV) collisions of protons with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In particular, he is studying events which contain a Z boson and a large amount of missing transverse momentum. These events tell us about the production of pairs of Z bosons, and are also potential signatures for new phenomena such as invisible decays of the Higgs boson or the production of Dark Matter. Professor Wood is also one of Northeastern’s most devoted undergraduate mentors and a longtime Faculty Fellow of the University Scholars Program/Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

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