Contact Info

last updated Jan 22, 2008


Emily Thompson
1036 Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Email: emily.thompson@cern.ch
Phone: +41 22 76 75078 (CERN)

Research

 

Elementary Particle Physics

Our group is involved with the ATLAS Experiment, located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Scheduled for completion in the spring of 2008, the ATLAS detector will be collecting data from high energy (up to 14 TeV!!) proton-proton collisions accelerated in the Large Hadron Collider.

CLICK LEFT! Showing a fall to Earth, aerial view of Switzerland, the LHC ring, CERN, diving underground to the ATLAS pit, and finally a layered view of the detector.
For more ATLAS animations, visit atlas.ch/multimedia

My current doctoral research involves determining track-finding efficiencies of the Muon Spectrometer using the tag-probe method, and propagating this efficiency to the high-energy regime (200+ GeV) where previously undiscovered particles, such as the Z' heavy gauge boson, may live. We are currently developing this method within the offline DQA framework, to determine the efficiency and resolution for combined muons (MS + Inner Detector tracks) as a function of eta, phi, pT and various other cuts, such as isolation. Also, during 2008, I am located at CERN for Muon Spectrometer commissioning, specifically for the Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) endcap chambers.

ATLAS Talks:

On the Indico system

Previous Work/Education:

  • Master of Science in Physics, granted February 2008, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellow, March-July 2006, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • Northeast Alliance Fellow, 2004-2005, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Bachelor of Science in Physics, with minor in Mathematics, granted June 2004, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Ronald E. McNair Scholar, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona