Joseph Incandela

Joseph Robert "Joe" Incandela (* 1956 ) is an American experimental particle physicist. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Incandela received his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1986 with Henry Frisch on the development of large superconducting detectors for magnetic monopoles. He was at the UA2 experiment at CERN , where he studied the W and Z bosons that were just detected there in 1983 as a CERN Fellow . He then looked for charged Higgs bosons at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Milan (INFN) . In 1991 he went back to the USA at Fermilab , where he developed silicon particle detectors for the CDF and played a leading role in the search for the top quark , which was discovered at Fermilab in 1995. From the end of the 1990s he was involved in the development of the CMS detector (development of its tracking system). From 2001 he was at UCSB where he headed the US group for tracking in the CMS. From 2007 he was permanent at CERN and from 2010 deputy spokesman and from 2012 spokesman for CMS. In 2012, there and at the second large LHC experiment ATLAS, the discovery of a boson compatible with the Higgs boson of the Standard Model succeeded. For his participation in it he received the Special Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012 with others . In 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

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• Website of the CMS for election as speaker