Group News
Recent highlights from the Yohay group — awards, publications, outreach, and more.
2026
- Teaching CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme
- Professor Yohay gave an invited lecture series on particle detectors at the CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Personnel Steffi Bower completes Ph.D.
- Congratulations to Steffi Bower on successfully defending her dissertation! Steffi will begin a physics teacher training programme at the University of Manchester.
- Publication New CMS Physics Analysis Summary: H→aa
- The CMS Collaboration released the preliminary results of our search in the full Run 2 dataset for a light pseudoscalar boson in final states with boosted μμ and ττ pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV (CMS-PAS-SUS-23-005).
2025
- Personnel Danish Alam successfully defends prospectus
- Congratulations to Danish Alam on becoming a Ph.D. candidate! He defended his prospectus “Search for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in p-p collisions at 13.6 TeV with the CMS Detector at LHC and contributions to the HGCAL upgrade”.
- Publication HGCAL silicon sensor paper submitted
- G. Adamov et al. (CMS HGCAL Collaboration) submitted “Leakage current of high-fluence neutron-irradiated 8″ silicon sensors for the CMS Endcap Calorimeter Upgrade” to J. Instr. (arXiv:2510.17280).
- Teaching CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme
- Professor Yohay gave an invited lecture series on particle detectors at the CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Outreach Ask a Scientist Gaming
- Professor Yohay appeared on Ask a Scientist Gaming on Twitch, discussing particle physics while playing video games. The archived episode is available on YouTube.
- Personnel Abbas Hassani joins the group
- Welcome to Abbas Hassani, who joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in 2025.
- Outreach FSU Flying Circus of Physics
- Professor Yohay and graduate student Danish Alam volunteered their time to this K-12 physics outreach extravaganza.
- Personnel Meutia Wulansatiti Nursanto completes PhD
- Congratulations to Meutia Wulansatiti Nursanto on completing her doctorate! She has joined Rice University as a postdoctoral researcher.