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Department of Physics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
About
Professor Rachel Yohay is an experimental particle physicist in the Department of Physics at Florida State University.
Her research focuses on searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model using proton-proton collision data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including searches for light pseudoscalar Higgs bosons and rare decays of the Higgs boson, and assembly and commissioning of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL). Previously, she contributed to operation and maintenance of the CMS pixel detector (2012-2026) and silicon sensor R&D for the HGCAL (2020-2026). She is a recipient of a US Department of Energy Early Career Research Program grant (2018-2023), an FSU Developing Scholar Award (2024–2025), and the FSU PAI Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (2020–2021).
Professor Yohay joined the FSU Physics faculty in 2016. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2012 and held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Davis prior to joining FSU.
Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, Higgs boson measurements, and detector R&D at the LHC.
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