Caption: UW-Madison physics professor Sau Lan Wu leads a group that helped develop ATLAS, one of the two main particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. Her quarry, the Higgs boson, is thought to explain why matter has mass.
Photo: Jeff Miller
Date: March 2008
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Caption: Sau Lan Wu, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of physics, is pictured on March, 27, 2008. In the background is a projection of a computer-generated simulation depicting the paths of subatomic particles produced by colliding beams of protons in the ATLAS Experiment, a particle detector at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: March 2008
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Caption: Wesley Smith, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of physics, stands in the path of a computer-projected graphic on July 17, 2008. The graphic shows part of the data filtering approach Smith uses to find the most interesting patterns within the massive amount of information recorded from colliding beams of protons in the CMS Experiment, a particle detector at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. The team is searching for the tiny fraction of the proton collisions that may reveal undiscovered subatomic particles and other new physical phenomena.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: July 2008
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Caption: Wesley Smith, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of physics, stands in the path of a computer-projected graphic on July 17, 2008. The graphic depicts the paths of subatomic particles produced by colliding beams of protons in the CMS Experiment, a particle detector at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. Smith's role in the project includes filtering the massive amount of computer data that results from recording such events.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: July 2008
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