News

10/10/2025
Publication - Daniel Abadjiev, Eric You, Mira Littmann, and Eliza Howard along with Smart Pixels collaborators publish two papers: one on sensor co-design and a second featuring our group's results testing a prototype smart pixels ASIC!

08/27/2025
Conference - Eliza Howard presents her work on Smart Pixels at Lepton Photon!

08/03/2025
Conference - Our group hosts the US Muon Collider Accelerator School and Annual Meeting at UChicago. Daniel Abadjiev, Inci Karaaslan, Mira Littmann, Eric You, and Ryan Michaud all present posters on their research!

05/06/2025
Award - Daniel Fu wins the Lewis Prize given to the best graduating senior in Physics!

05/01/2025
Award - Karri and collaborators Tova Holmes and Isobel Ojalvo win a Simon's Foundation Targeted Grant in Math and Physical Sciences to kick start Muon Collider R&D. Read more in the UChicago Physical Sciences Division Newsletter

04/10/2025
Featured - Our group is featured in in Symmetry Magazine!

04/05/2025
Award - Tate Flicker wins the EFI Nathan Sugarman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate and Graduate Research!

04/05/2025
Conference - Kane Huang, Leo Rozanov, Tate Flicker, Carissa Kumar, and Daniel Fu present their work on Muon Collider and Smart Pixels at the 2024 APS April meeting. Congratulations to Kane for winning an Undergraduate Presentation Award!

04/01/2025
Award - Karri wins an NSF CAREER Award to enable new physics discoveries at the ATLAS experiment and cutting edge pixel detector development

03/31/2025
Publication - Karri and collaborators in the International Muon Collider Colloboration and the US Muon Collider Collaboration summarize recent progress towards a muon collider for the ongoing European Strategy Update.

02/25/2025
Publication - Karri, Teresa Du, and collaborators publish a search for meta-stable charged particles with the ATLAS experiment, which leverages pixel ionization and calorimeter time of flight measurments in Run 2 data.

01/31/2025
Publication - Karri, Ben Rosser, Leo Rosanov and collaborators publish the MAIA Detector Design, a detector concept for a 10 TeV muon Collider

08/22/2024
Publication - Daniel Fu publishes his work on Final Cooling at a Muon Collider and presents it at ICHEP

03/25/2024
Outreach - Anthony Badea, Teresa Du, and Karri show middle school students how to measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave at Chicago's Expanding Your Horizons winter conference.

03/24/2024
Conference - Karri and collaborators Larry Lee, Nausheen Shah, and Sally Shaw organize the Aspen Winter Conference on The Future of High Energy Physics: A New Generation, A New Vision. Everyone enjoyed a great escape to the mountains to discuss the future of the field!

03/08/2024
Publication - Karri and collaborators publish the first ever search for soft-unclustered-energy-patterns using the CMS experiment as a PRL editor's suggestion!

08/23/2023
Featured - Our group is featured in Scientific American!

06/29/2023
Publication - The ATLAS Run 3 search for long-lived, massive particles in events with displaced vertices and multiple jets is published in JHEP. The search employs dedicated track reconstruction techniques to increase the sensitivity to long-lived particles decaying in the ATLAS inner detector

05/26/2023
Publication - The ATLAS Experiment Detector Configuration for Run 3 is out and has been submitted to JINST. This paper describes the small drift tube chambers installed by Karri in 2017. Congratulations to the ATLAS Collaboration!

04/18/2023
Featured - Our group is featured in the CERN Courier!

03/25/2023
Outreach - Karri along with collaborators Grace Cummings and Cristina Mantilla Suarez organize a workshop for middle school students on how to measure the speed of light with chocolate at Chicago's Expanding Your Horizons winter conference.

01/21/2023
Outreach - Karri presents strategies for science publications, presentations, and posters to high school students participating in the NAACP ACT-SO program for DuPage County. Students will use these tips to present their work in March!

12/22/2022
Publication - Optimizing Trigger-Level Track Reconstruction for Sensitivity to Exotic Signatures is accepted to JHEP. Congratulations to Karri and collaborators, Kate Pachal, Tova Holmes, Jess Nelson, Jess Farr, and Chris Guo!

12/22/2022
Conference - Karri co-organizes the Muon Collider Physics and Detector Workshop at Fermilab. The workshop focuses on physics and detector design (including machine-detector interface discussions) and aims to encourage broader participation in Muon Collider physics within the US community.