Heavy Ion Physics at UC Davis with STAR and CMS
Welcome to the homepage of UCD Nuclear Physics group! We hope that these
pages will be interesting and useful to you. This main page generally
contains events, meeting schedule, and announcements.
The Nuclear Group is located in
the 3rd floor of the Physics Building, in the South wing.
Weekly meetings (Room 395)
News and Announcements
- CMS wins the Breakthrough Prize! Manuel Calderon, Saeahram Yoo, Heather Folsom and other previous NPG graduate students were among the 13,000 LHC scientists awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The $3 million prize will be split among the four major LHC experiments. Check out this link for more information: https://home.cern/news/press-release/knowledge-sharing/lhc-experiment-collaborations-cern-receive-breakthrough-prize
- Mathias Labonte given the STAR early career award! NPG Ph.D. Candidate Mathias Labonte has won the STAR early career award for his "extensive investigations into track reconstruction in the fixed target data that ultimately led to the discovery of TPC misalignment issues".
- In the press! Zach Sweger's recent paper about how "not" to measure a QCD criticial point was featured in a recent news article:
- UCD NPG Student Zach Sweger wins best poster at the RHIC/AGS Users Meeting for his poster on the intricacies involved in experimentally detecting a QCD critical point. For more information, check out the following link: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=221986&btw=1
- The IMAX film, Secrets of the Universe, starring Manuel Calderon and graduate students from our group, was shown at the Mondavi Center in October 2022
- Visit the publications section to view our group's recent publications
