Scholarship and Biography
I have been doing research in High Energy Physics using the ATLAS experiment at CERN. A list of ATLAS publications (over 500) can be found here but, as is traditional in HEP the author list is a historical record of who participated in the experiment, I participated in only of few of the papers directly. On July 4, 2012, ATLAS announced the discovery of the long-sought Higgs Boson. The muon system that Brandeis helped develop was critical in that discovery as the muon decay channel was one of the two major decay channels in that discovery. I am currently working on upgrading the ATLAS detector at the LHC in preparation for higher intensity running in the future. In addition, I am assisting in the setup of the outer detector of the LZ Dark Matter search taking place in the Homestake mine in Lead, SD.