Biographical Sketch:
Sierra Cantway is a graduate student at Yale. She is originally from New Jersey, and she graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics. Sierra now works on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. There, she studies collisions of heavy ions that create a hot, short-lived, novel state of matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) to test the theory of the strong force at extremely high energy densities. Sierra’s tool of choice to investigate the QGP is jets: high-momentum collimated sprays of particles that evolve with the QGP. She is particularly interested in how the types of particles in jets are modified compared to those in jets in a vacuum.
Education:
University of Notre Dame: B.S. in Physics and Mathematics
