The experimental high-energy physics group of the METU physics department has been active for about five decades and involved in several CERN experiments: Magnetic Moment of Lambda Hyperon, WA17, UA8, CHARM-II (WA75) and CHORUS (WA95), before they joined CMS. METU has been a member of CMS since 1996 and is the first group who joined CMS from Turkey.
The METU group was involved in the HCAL, Forward Calorimeter (HF) group from the beginning. During the design period the group contributed to the R&D work for the choice of RadHard quartz fiber for HF and to the testing of several HF prototypes at CERN. The group has then mainly engaged in, and contributed to, several physics analysis in CMS. Among them are pioneering studies on the search for the Higgs boson produced in vector-boson fusion and the search for higher-dimensional black holes.
In recent years, the group is involved in precision measurements (AFB, weak mixing angle, Z+jets, Xc2/Xc1, vector-boson fusion), search for new physics (Supersymmetry, extra dimensions, unparticles) and detector performance studies of the Hadron Calorimeter.
About Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara
From: Turkey
CMS member since: 1996
Website: http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/HighEnergyPhysics/Experiment