Biographical Sketch:
Prof. Sarah Demers is an experimental particle physicist in the Yale Physics Department. She uses tau leptons to probe for and characterize physics beyond the Standard Model with the ATLAS experiment and hunts for signs of new physics at the Mu2e Experiment.
Selected Publications:
Science Goal: Precision tests of the standard model and new physics searches; including characterizing the Higgs Boson and using it to probe for new physics.
WL Involvement: The Yale team has critical responsibilities in the ATLAS collaboration for data quality and detector upgrades. Wright Lab has been the host of R&D and now construction of critical elements of the ATLAS tracker upgrade for the hI-LHC era.
Science Goal: Search for the conversion of a muon directly to an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process is all but forbidden in the Standard Model, and a signal at Mu2e would be a clear sign of new physics.
WL Involvement: The Demers group is heavily engaged with development on the Mu2e trigger, including writing and optimizing algorithms and leadership in the Trigger and Data Acquisition group. Demers is on the Mu2e publications board and led the “Engaging Non-Experts” group to help onboard new collaboration members.
A team of Yale postdoctoral associates and graduate students coordinated the 2025 Pint of Science Festival in New Haven from May 20-21, 2025.
Sarah Demers, professor of physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was among two faculty members who were awarded the William Clyde DeVane Award.
Six Wright Lab faculty members and their groups were honored for their work on international scientific experiments.
