Sep 5 2013
After decades of searching for the Higgs boson, a theoretical subatomic particle that is a cornerstone of the structure of matter, international scientists announced in July 2012 that they had evidence of its existence.
Dugan O'Neil, Bernd Stelzer and Michel Vetterli
They made the discovery at the ATLAS and CMS particle detectors at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland.
Now, the European Physical Society (EPS) has recognized the scientific collaborators, including SFU physicists Dugan O’Neil, Bernd Stelzer and Michel Vetterli.
They have received the 2013 EPS prize for High-Energy and Particle Physics.
The SFU trio has made major contributions to ATLAS for more than a decade, including analyzing ATLAS data and searching for further new physics phenomena.
As well, the trio has made critical technical contributions to ATLAS.
Vetterli is the project leader for the ATLAS Tier-1 Data Analysis Centre at TRIUMF, and is a founding co-principal investigator of Westgrid, which is used extensively by ATLAS. He was also a long-time computing coordinator for ATLAS-Canada.
O'Neil is currently the chair of the WestGrid Executive Board and was a member of the Compute Canada National Initiatives Committee. He also served as deputy spokesperson for ATLAS-Canada.
Stelzer co-created an online global monitoring system to help ensure the quality of ATLAS data. He is also working on upgrades to ATLAS for taking data at higher beam intensities. Stelzer is currently ATLAS-Canada physics coordinator, a position that O'Neil held previously.
Vetterli is spending a sabbatical year at CERN as the chair of the ATLAS Publications Committee, which oversees all journal papers produced by the collaboration. He is also a member of the ATLAS Executive Board.
Other current members of the SFU group are postdoctoral fellows Jiri Kvita, Heberth Torres, and Andres Tanasijczuk; and graduate students Noel Dawe, Jamie Horton, Daniel Mori, Michel Trottier-McDonald, and Jacobus Van Nieuwkoop.
Source: http://www.sfu.ca/