Jeremiah Mans

Jeremiah Mans is a Professor and Associate Head in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is a leading experimental particle physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS experiment at CERN, driving searches for new physics, precision measurements of the Higgs and Z bosons, and advanced detector R&D for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.

Research Focus

• Searches for heavy right-handed neutrinos and W bosons in left-right symmetric extensions of the Standard Model.
• Higgs boson physics, especially in the H→ZZ channel.
• Precision measurements of Z/Drell–Yan processes to probe proton structure.
• Design and upgrade of the Hadron Calorimeter readout and trigger electronics.

Major Grants & Projects

• LDMX: Electron Missing-Momentum Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter – PI, DOE-funded (2020-2025).
• US CMS HL-LHC Upgrades – Co-I, NSF & DOE (2020-2026).
• Endcap Calorimeter Upgrade for HL-LHC – Co-PI, Fermilab/DOE (2019-2025).
• Physics at the Energy Frontier: CMS at the LHC – PI, DOE (2014-2026).
• 2023 Distinguished Research Award – PI, Fermilab/DOE (2023-2024).

Scientific Recognition

• 2023 Distinguished Research Award, Fermilab & DOE.
• Over 1,400 peer-reviewed publications in high-energy physics.
• Active leadership roles within the CMS Collaboration and US detector-upgrade consortia.

He mentors a sizable research group at Minnesota, contributing significantly to training the next generation of particle physicists.