Joe Incandela

Biography

Dr. Incandela received his PhD in Physics from U. of Chicago searching for magnetic monopoles with superconducting devices. As a CERN Fellow on the UA2 experiment he obtained the first precise measurement of the Z boson mass. As INFN fellow he led the first search for charged Higgs in the hadronic tau final state. He was then a Wilson Fellow and Scientist at Fermilab before joining UCSB in 2001. He led three major silicon detector projects for the CDF experiment, the first of which he used for the discovery of the top quark. He then led the US silicon detector project for the CMS experiment at the CERN. He was deputy physics coordinator 2007-10, deputy spokesperson 2010-11, and elected Spokesperson 2012-13 when CMS co-discovered the Higgs boson. Since 2010 his group has been involved in new particle searches at the lHC and he is now contributing to the silicon upgrade of CMS.
In 2015, Dr. Incandela proposed a silicon-tungsten calorimeter as core of the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX) to search for sub-GeV dark matter.
Prof. Incandela is a member of the National Academy, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, APS and AAAS fellow and co-recipient of the Fundamental Physics Prize (Breakthrough Foundation) in 2013. Since 2016 Incandela has served as the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara while pursuing his research with the CMS and LDMX experiments.

Research

There is significant evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe and particle physics has provided some very good candidate particles for dark matter from extensions to the standard model, such as supersymmetry, but so far, there is no conclusive evidence for any of them. This has driven particle physicists to ever higher and lower mass scales. Dr. Incandela's group is pursuing evidence for dark matter in the TeV mass range consistent with supersymmetry at the CERN LHC and in the sub-GeV mass range in the context of a hidden dark sector at Stanford's SLAC accelerator complex. In addition, his group is pursuing new information about the Higgs boson by studying the charm-Higgs coupling. He plans to also search for the extremely rare production of pairs of Higgs bosons.

Selected Publications

S. Chatrchyan et al. [CMS], Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, Phys.Lett. B716: 30-61 (2012)

F. Abe et al.. [CDF], Observation of Top Quark Production in anti-p p Collisions, Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2626-2631,(1995)

T. Akesson et al. [LDMX], A High Efficiency Photon Veto for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment, JHEP 04, 003 (2020) doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2020)003

A. M. Sirunyan et al. [CMS], A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to charm quarks," JHEP 03, 131 (2020) doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2020)131

A.M. Sirunyan et al. [CMS] Search for pair production of supersymmetric partners to the tau lepton in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 no. 3, (2020)189

A. M. Sirunyan et al. [CMS], Search for direct production of supersymmetric partners of the top quark in the all-jets final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 5 (2017)

A.M. Sirunyan et al. [CMS] Identification of heavy, energetic, hadronically decaying particles using machine-learning techniques, Journal of Instrumentation 15 no. 06, (Jun, 2020) P06005

J. Alitti et al. (UA2 Collaboration) A search for charged Higgs from top quark decay at the CERN
anti-p p collider, Phys.Lett. B280:137-145,1992

J. Alitti et al. (UA2 Collaboration) A precise determination of the W and Z masses at the CERN
anti-p p collider , Phys.Lett. B 241:150-164,1990

J. Incandela, H. Frisch, D. Gustafson, M. Kuchnir, S. Somalwar A flux limit on cosmic ray
magnetic monopoles from a large area induction detector, PRL 53:2067(1984)