Cecilia Gerber, PhD
UIC Distinguished Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Associate Head for Instruction
Physics
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About
Professor Gerber’s research is centered in the experimental study of hadron collisions at the highest energies available. Her work involves the development of semiconductor detectors that precisely track the passage of charged particles and the elucidation of the characteristics of the production processes of top quarks and searches for new physics that decay preferentially to top quarks.
Prof. Gerber is a member of the CMS Collaboration at CERN. She was elected fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.
Selected Publications
- Measurement of the tt charge asymmetry in events with highly Lorentz-boosted top quarks in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Accepted by Physics Letters B (2022)
- “The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade” Journal of Instrumentation 16 P02027 (2021)
- Search for resonant tt production in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV J. High Energ. Phys. (2019) 2019: 31
- “Searches for new physics using the ttbar invariant mass distribution in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 211804 (2013)
Education
Physics Diploma (1990), University of Buenos Aires
PhD, Physics (1995), University of Buenos Aires