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Articles about research and researchers at Nevis
Prof. Mike Tuts was recently awarded the 2026 US ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of his many leadership roles and contributions to US participation of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Each year, one recipient for this award is selected by the US ATLAS collaboration, which includes hundreds of members hailing from several US national labs and around 40 different US universities.
The citation for Mike's award reads as follows:
"In recognition of your leadership across US ATLAS for over two decades. You instituted and co-managed the Operations Program for many years, including the successful delivery of the US Run 1 commitments and the Phase-1 upgrades. You have played a critical and defining role in managing the NSF-MREFC contribution to the US ATLAS HL-LHC upgrades as PI. Beyond this, you have been a tireless ambassador for US ATLAS and high energy physics in general, as well as being a highly valued mentor for countless generations of graduate students, postdocs, and young faculty."
Congratulations to Mike on this very-well deserved recognition!
GAPS, a Balloon Experiment Pursuing Dark Matter, Launches in Antarctica - A Columbia University-led balloon experiment launched on December 16 in Antarctica. Its aim: To find out what exactly dark matter is made of. The experiment is called the General Antiparticle Spectrometer, or GAPS. It is flying at an altitude of almost 22 miles above Antarctica. Its real-time progress is available on-line.
The GAPS detector was assembled and tested at Nevis Labs. It was the focus of the Science-on-Hudson talk given by Associate Professor Kerstin Perez. A video of that talk is available on YouTube.
The Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) awarded its 2026 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize to Dr. Daniel W. Savin of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History. The award recognizes his contributions to studies in X-ray astrophysics and early universe star formation and his extensive service to the laboratory astrophysics community.
Dr. Savin's astrochemistry laboratory is located at Nevis Labs.
Scientists Close the Door on a Leading Explanation for a Neutrino Mystery - Scientists working on the MicroBooNE experiment have reported that they have found no evidence for a fourth type of neutrino. The Neutrino group at Nevis, including Georgia Karagiorgi, associate professor of physics, Mark Ross-Lonergan, assistant professor of physics, and Mike Shaevitz, professor of physics, worked on on this result. The article was published in the journal Nature.
Nevis Labs researchers worked in collaboration with engineers in the Columbia Electrical Engineering Department to develop custom-designed analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) chips that are able to withstand the high-radiation environment in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These chips will enable a future upgrade to ATLAS that will allow more detailed exploration of the nature of the universe, using the world's highest energy particle energy. More details can be found at Engineering the next generation of experimental physics.
There are two recent articles related to the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermilab:
There are two recent articles on the Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey (GRAMS) experiment:
F. William (“Bill”) Sippach (1929-2023) - Over an extraordinary career that spanned six decades, Bill played crucial roles in the successes of many generations of particle, nuclear, and astrophysicist experiments.
Columbia Accelerates Research into Next-Generation Radiation Therapies. The new heavy-ion linear accelerator, dedicated to research on cancer treatments, is located in the RARAF area of Nevis Labs.
A Longtime Search at Fermilab for a Fourth Kind of Neutrino Ends with New Questions. The article includes mention of the Columbia Neutrino group at Nevis Labs, which formed part of the research effort that produced this important result. For more information, see MicroBooNE's Search for the Low-Energy Excess and the home page of Prof. Michael Shaevitz.
Jessica Esquivel Powers a Career in Particles and People. Jessica Esquivel was part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Nevis Laboratories from 2009 to 2010.
Curious, and want to join the hot debate surrounding sterile neutrinos? Be sure to tune in to BNN Live, for the latest views on the subject, featuring Nevis Laboratories' own Mark Ross-Lonergan!
A New Clue in a Decades-Long Search for a Fourth Type of Neutrino. The article mentions Associate Professor Georgia Karagiorgi, Post-Doc Mark Ross-Lonergan, and former Columbia graduate student Kathyrn Sutton of the Neutrino group at Nevis.
Searching for Ghostly Neutrinos to Understand Why Matter Dominates the Universe. The article focuses on Associate Professor Georgia Karagiorgi, who works at Nevis on the analysis and hardware of several Neutrino experiments.
Nuclear Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was Honored on a U.S. Postal Service Commemorative Forever Stamp. Professor Wu's accomplishments include the experimental discovery of parity violation, which was of critical important in the development of particle physics.
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