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Corrinne Mills serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she is actively engaged with the High Energy Particle Physics Group and the CMS collaboration. Her research confronts fundamental limitations of the Standard Model of particle physics through precision studies of the Higgs boson and searches for new physics phenomena.
Her academic foundation includes:
- AB in Physics (2001) from Harvard University
- PhD in Physics (2007) from the University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Mills' research program focuses on unraveling the Higgs boson's connections to cosmic mysteries such as matter-antimatter asymmetry and dark matter. Her work spans both theoretical investigations into beyond-Standard-Model physics and experimental detector development for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. Current efforts center on replacing the CMS forward pixel detector to enable precision tracking under extreme proton-proton collision rates starting in 2029.
Publication analysis reveals a clear evolution from foundational work on top-quark production (2009) and W/Z boson cross sections (2010) to pivotal contributions in the 2012 Higgs discovery, followed by increasingly precise Higgs property measurements using both ATLAS and CMS data through 2022. Her research consistently targets WW decay channels and diboson final states to probe Higgs couplings and potential new physics signatures.
Professor Mills maintains active leadership in major international collaborations, having previously served as a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh (ATLAS collaboration) and contributed to the final LHC Run-1 Higgs publications. Her expertise spans detector operations, data analysis, and cross-collaboration knowledge transfer between ATLAS and CMS.
She currently leads UIC's involvement in the CMS forward pixel detector upgrade project, working within the university's High Energy Particle Physics Group to prepare for the High-Luminosity LHC era.
