Jay Hauser research

I do my research on the CMS experiment. The CMS and ATLAS experiments co-discovered the Higgs particle in 2012 using data from the Large Hadron Collider.

I am working with students on analyses of LHC Run 2 and Run 3 data (proton collisions at center-of-mass energy 13 and 13.6 TeV, respectively), looking for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. I am working with engineers and senior physicists on continued improvements and maintenance of the muon detector system.

Previously, I designed and built electronics for the Cathode Strip Chamber (CSC) muon system of CMS between 1997-2006, and commissioned the CSC during 2007-2009 at CERN. A picture of me working on the CSC from circa 2009 is shown at right. I was resident in Geneva while doing project management for the muon system in 2010-2017.

See my CV (July 2023) for more information, including a brief list of selected publications.


UCLA has a large research effort in CMS, lead by Professors Michalis Bachtis, Robert Cousins, Jay Hauser, and David Saltzberg. The UCLA CMS group works closely and harmoniously together, and I hope we will soon have a nice web page to describe the rest of our group and our research.

Page last updated 03-July-2023.

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