Education
Incandela received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1986.
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Joseph Incandela
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Joseph "Joe" Incandela is an American particle physicist, a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and currently based at European Organization of Nuclear Research where he spent two years as the spokesperson for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Career
He worked on the UA2 experiment at European Organization of Nuclear Research to study the recently discovered West and Z bosons before searching for charged Higgs bosons. He then moved back to the United States in 1991 to work at FNAL where he led the construction and design of silicon detectors and co-led the search for the top quark using lifetime tagging of b quark jets. This channel had the strongest contribution to the top quark discovery in 1995.
Since 1997 he has been involved with the Large Hadron Collider at European Organization of Nuclear Research, initially leading the construction of a large part of the tracking system for the Compact Muon Solenoid (Content Management System) experiment.
In 2011 he was elected to be the spokesperson for the Content Management System experiment. On July 4, 2012, Incandela announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson.
Incandela was succeeded as Content Management System spokesperson by Tiziano Camporesi in January 2014. Profile article on Incandela back at UCSB.
Achievements
Membership
National Academy of Sciences.
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Nationality
United States