Fundamental Properties of Elementary Particles

The discovery of the Higgs boson (popularly known as ‘the God particle’) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN marked the beginning of a golden age for fundamental physics. One of the most important tasks in fundamental physics today is to measure and characterize the properties of the Higgs boson including its interactions with other elementary particles. In the next decade, the LHC will undergo two more upgrades, greatly extending its sensitivity for new physics. We plan to measure the Higgs properties, search for Beyond Standard Model physics, contribute to the ATLAS detector upgrade and to the R&D for the proposed Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) in China, and develop improved techniques in Big Data computing and machine learning. We also work in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, to measure neutrino oscillations and search for new physics related to neutrinos.
(H.C. Cheng | M.C. Chu)