UIC HEP part of international collaboration upgrading the CMS detector to handle the increased number of collisions at the LHC
Friday, August 26, 2022
Preparing for a more powerful particle accelerator August 25, 2022 | Mary Magnuson The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is back in action after a three-year scheduled technical shutdown period. Experts circulated beam…
Prof. Mills and her group's work on the Higgs Boson published in Nature
Thursday, July 7, 2022
10 years later, Higgs boson discoverers publish refined measurements July 6, 2022 | Madeleine O’Keefe Editor’s note: The following feature story is being published jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National…
Large Hadron Collider restarts
Thursday, April 28, 2022
CERN News, 22 April, 2022 The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Today, 22 April, at 12:16…
Prof. Cecilia E. Gerber elected fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Dr. Cecilia Gerber has been elected to the newest class of American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows, one of the top honors within the scientific community. Cecilia Gerber, UIC Distinguished Professor…
European Physical Society 2019 High Energy Particle Physics Prize
Monday, May 20, 2019
  The 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics is awarded to the CDF and D0 Collaborationsfor the discovery of the top…
LHC prepares for new achievements
Monday, December 3, 2018
Geneva, 3 December 2018. Early this morning, operators of the CERN Control Centre turned off the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ending the very successful second run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.…
QuarkNet takes on solar eclipse science
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
While most people are marveling at Monday’s eclipse, a group of researchers will be measuring its effects on cosmic rays—particles from space that collide with the earth’s atmosphere to produce muons, heavy cousins of…
CMS undergoes tracker transplant
Friday, March 17, 2017
At the beginning of March, the CMS collaboration successfully replaced the heart of its detector: the pixel tracker. This innermost layer of the CMS detector, a cylindrical device containing 124 million sensitive silicon…
A new inner detector installed for CERN CMS experiment
Sunday, March 12, 2017
At the center of one of the largest experimental particle physics detectors, CMS, located at the CERN collider, protons collide with each other and create blasts of 100s of particles 40 million times…
Dr. Doug Berry and Dr. Zhenbin Wu win CMS Achievement Awards
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Dr. Doug Berry and Dr. Zhenbin Wu, both postdoctoral researchers in the UIC Department of Physics, have won Achievement Awards for their contributions to the CMS Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).…
Prof. Mark Adams featured in Science Outreach Video
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Professor Emeritus Mark Adams was featured in a video sponsored by Fermilab about STEM education in our high schools.  Professor Adams has been a long-time leader and mentor ​for the UIC QuarkNet outreach program.
University Scholar Dr. Nikos Varelas: thrill of the unknown
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
he University Scholars Program, now in its 29th year, honors faculty members for superior research and teaching, along with great promise for future achievements. The award provides $10,000 a year for three years. A…
This is UIC: Dr. Richard Cavanaugh
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
UIC physics professor Richard Cavanaugh is an atom-smasher. In fact, he was a member of the team that discovered the Higgs Boson. When he’s not in Geneva working with the Large Hadron Collider,…
UIC’s helping hands put Higgs particle within scientists’ grasp
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
You can’t see it, but information gleaned from trillions of smashed atoms suggests it’s really there: the elusive subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, deemed essential to the physical workings of our universe.…
Prof. Gerber presented the DZero experiment results at Fermilab
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Fourteen years ago this month, the DZero and CDF experiments jointly announced the discovery of top quarks. In those observations, top quarks were always produced in pairs. A quark and antiquark from the proton…