UNM student earns prestigious ATLAS Center Fellowship
January 9, 2023 - Savannah Peat
One physics student at The University of New Mexico is kicking off 2023 by contributing to the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world.
Physics & Astronomy Ph.D. student Hijas Farook has been chosen for an ATLAS Center fellowship.
He will spend six months at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York researching particle physics instrumentation.
In doing so, Hijas will play a key role in improving future particle collider experiments, which could help determine the origin of the cosmos.
The ATLAS Center is a resource centered on the ATLAS experiment, being conducted with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Hijas's research will help the development of semiconductor tracking detectors for ATLAS particle experiments at CERN. This includes finding answers for the most existential puzzles of physics, including forces of nature and the basic components of light and dark matter.
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