Corrinne Mills
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- UIC is a part of the CMS experimental collaboration, which operates a detector, also called CMS, at the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory. We build and operate detectors, analyze resulting proton-proton collision data, and plan for future experiments.
- The Mills group researches the properties of the observed Higgs boson and connections between the physics of Higgs bosons and the fundamental questions that the Standard Model of particle physics, for all its successes, cannot answer. How did the matter in our universe arise from a matter-antimatter-symmetric initial state? What is the nature of dark matter, for which there is strong observational evidence but which cannot be any known fundamental particle? Can we see evidence of new particles and interactions even beyond the kinematic reach of the LHC through their influence on observable processes? Study of the observed Higgs boson and searches for additional Higgs bosons may hold the key.
- Our group is also active in the construction and development of semiconductor particle tracking detectors. We work on the replacement of the CMS forward pixel detector, using the Fermilab test beam facility to characterize detector prototypes. We are also active in the Fermilab-based smartpixels collaboration, which is developing next-generation particle tracking by integrating machine-learning algorithms on the detector itself for data reduction and compression to improve measurement granularity while evading bandwidth limitations.
At a Glance
- Title Associate Professor
- College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Department Department of Physics
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