Pauline Gagnon

Biography

Senior Research Scientist-Elementary Particle/High Energy Physics,PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz,I am a particle physicist who worked at Indiana University from 1999 to 2016. I worked on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. ATLAS is one of the four large, long-lasting experiments on the Hadron Collider (LHC), Since 2011, I have been most involved in outreach activities. In 2015, I published a book (in French) called: " What does the Higgs boson eat in winter and other essential details ". This book was released in English by Oxford University Press under the title: " Who Cares about particle physics: Making sense of the boson Higgs, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN ".

Research Interest

I have recently taken an interest to Hidden Valley models and Invisible Higgs decays. With the Large Hadron Collider about to turn on at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, along with nearly 3000 other scientists working on the ATLAS experiment, my goal is to see if you could get some clues about what matter is really made of.