Joseph Incandela

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

Incandela was established in 1986 at the University of Chicago in physics at Henry fresh doctoral thesis on the development of large superconducting detectors for magnetic monopoles. He was at the UA2 experiment at CERN, where he studied in 1983 there just proven the W and Z bosons as a CERN Fellow. Then he looked at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Milan ( INFN ) of charged Higgs bosons. In 1991 he went back to the United States to the 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 in 1995 at Fermilab. From the late 1990s he was involved in the development of the CMS detector (development of the tracking system ). In 2001 he was at UCSB where he led the U.S. group for tracking in the CMS. From 2007, he was firmly at CERN and from 2010 Deputy Speaker and Speaker from 2012 of CMS. 2012 succeeded there, and on the second major LHC experiment ATLAS discovery of a compatible with the Higgs boson of the Standard Model boson. For his involvement in it he received in 2012 with the other Special Fundamental Physics Prize.