WIRED‘s Joshua Batson wrote an article, published 23 January 2015, called, “How Three Guys With $10K and Decades-Old Data Almost Found the Higgs Boson First”, about our 2009 project looking for ways the Higgs boson could have been hiding in LEP data.
Can the Higgs boson possibly decay to dark matter? Well, can it?
In celebration of the LHC turning back on at 13 TeV, I participated in a video about what we’re looking for in Run 2, titled, “Why you should care about the Large Hadron Collider”, produced at CERN with US/LHC.
I was featured in a video about the physics of the 2014 film Interstellar from the perspective of an LHC experimentalist, again produced with US/LHC, which was picked up by Discovery, the Columbus Dispatch, and various other places.
I gave a talk about searching for low-mass hidden gauge bosons at fixed target facilities like Jefferson Lab, called “Dark Photons at Noon”, at a TEDx event, TEDxFultonStreet, in lower Manhattan in June of 2014. The video is here, and here.
I was the particle physicist on a panel discussion about art and science at Central Booking gallery in Brooklyn, in December of 2010.
I also participate in outreach events in conjunction with our ATLAS group. I help man a booth about the LHC and ATLAS at various events, such as the 2011 World Science Festival Street Fair, here in New York, the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., in April of 2012, and the grand opening of the S. Jhumki Basu STEME Education and Research Center at the NYU Steinhardt School, in February of 2014.