The Maryland Experimental High Energy Physics group studies the properties and interactions of nature's elementary particles. Our present understanding of the universe at both the largest and smallest scales (in both energy and distance) has led us to a mathematical framework called the Standard Model.

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High Energy Physics News

Lepton Flavor Universality Tests Using Bc+ Decays at LHCb

UMD graduate student Emily Jiang delivered a CERN seminar on May 19, 2026, unveiling an important new result on studies of Lepton Flavor Universality using decays of the heaviest B meson, B c + ,...

Chung Yun Chang, 1929 - 2025

Professor Emeritus Chung Yun Chang died on October 29, 2025, in San Diego, California. He was 95. Prof. Chang was a native of rural Hunan, China. He received a bachelor’s degree at National Taiwan...

Breakthrough Prize Awarded to CERN Experiments

On April 5, 2025, the CMS , LHCb , ALICE and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize...