{"id":641,"date":"2018-05-31T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/?page_id=641"},"modified":"2018-05-31T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:54:34","slug":"sau-lan-wu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/smat50\/sau-lan-wu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sau Lan Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sau Lan Wu<\/strong> is Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics and a Vilas Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \u00a0She is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-recipient of the 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sau Lan Wu graduated from Vassar College (1963) with a B.A. in Physics. After earning a M.A. (1964) and a Ph.D. (1970) in Physics from Harvard University, Sau Lau Wu has been in a number of very successful physics programs: M.I.T. and Brookhaven National Laboratory (1970-1977); the TASSO experiment at PETRA, DESY (1977-1989); the ALEPH experiment at LEP, CERN (1980-2001); the BaBar experiment at SLAC (1995-2007); and the ATLAS experiment at LHC, CERN (1993-present), focusing on the Higgs discovery and its properties. \u00a0Her Wisconsin group was the first US group to join ATLAS.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Sau Lan Wu\u2019s career so far, she has participated in three major discoveries, in two of which she played leading roles: the gluon and the Higgs boson.<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Discovery of the Charm Quark in 1974<\/b> as a post-doc at M.I.T.<\/span>
\n<\/span>(2) Discovery of the Gluon in 1979<\/b>. Wu was the leading figure in the gluon discovery in the TASSO experiment at DESY (1995 EPS prize).<\/span>
\n<\/span>(3) Discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012<\/b>. Wu and her Wisconsin group played a leading role in the discovery of the Higgs boson: \u00a0in the <\/span>H<\/span><\/i>\u2192\u03b3\u03b3, <\/span>H<\/span><\/i>\u2192<\/span>ZZ<\/span><\/i>\u2192<\/span>4 leptons <\/span><\/i>and the Higgs combination effort. <\/span><\/p>\n

This discovery of the Higgs boson six years ago was a very important event in physics, and received major coverage in the news media. \u00a0Wu was featured together with Higgs and three spokespersons: Incandela (CMS), Tonelli (CMS) and Gianotti (ATLAS) in the article \u2018Chasing the Higgs Boson\u2019 by Dennis Overbye. The picture of the five appeared on the front page and \u00a0in the Science section of the New York Times dated March 5, 2013. Wu co-authored the article \u2018The Higgs at last\u2019 with Guido Tonelli (CMS spokesman) and Michael Riordan (award winning historian) in the Scientific American, October 2012 issue and in the Scientific American special edition on \u201cextreme physics\u201d of May 2013. Wu is featured in the book \u201cWomen in Science \u2013 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world\u201d, written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky, published in 2016. This book has been on the best seller lists of Amazon and New Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since this discovery is expected to lead to a deeper understanding of particle physics, Wu and her Wisconsin group have continued to concentrate on studying the properties of the Higgs particle, specifically using machine learning algorithm. \u00a0Recently she and her group have very successfully contributed to ATLAS on the observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair. This constitutes the confirmation of the tree-level coupling of the Higgs boson to top quarks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wu and her Wisconsin group are also deeply involved in the search for dark matter at LHC. \u00a0A number of processes are being studied, including the one with large missing transverse momentum plus a mono-Higgs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with research, education has been Sau Lan Wu\u2019s primary mission. Sixty-one graduate students have obtained Ph.D. degrees under her supervision. \u00a0Thirty four former postdocs and former graduate students are faculty members mainly in major U.S. universities and worldwide. In addition, thirteen are permanent staff members at major High Energy Physics laboratories. <\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/wisconsin.cern.ch\/slw\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Sau Lan Wu<\/strong> is Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics and a Vilas Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \u00a0She is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-recipient of the 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society.<\/p>\n

Sau Lan Wu graduated from Vassar College (1963) with a B.A. in Physics. After earning a M.A. (1964) and a Ph.D. (1970) in Physics from Harvard University, Sau Lau Wu has been in a number of very successful physics programs: M.I.T. and Brookhaven National Laboratory (1970-1977);<\/p>\n

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