Marina Artuso, professor in the Department of Physics in Syracuse University's
College of Arts and Sciences, was recently appointed to the national High Energy
Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). The panel advises both the U.S. Department of
Energy and the National Science Foundation in the ongoing effort to advance high-
energy physics research and to support U.S. leadership in the field.
"We are extremely proud of Professor Artuso's pioneering work and congratulate her
on her appointment to this prestigious national panel," says College of Arts and
Sciences Dean George Langford. "The appointment recognizes her outstanding
contributions to the field of high-energy physics and the impact of her research on
the national and international scientific communities."
A fellow of the American Physical Society, Artuso is a highly respected leader in the
field of high-energy physics. Much of her work has focused on the development,
design and construction of novel detector technologies and electronics for elementary
particle physics experiments. In addition, she has a long-standing interest in
furthering the understanding of the basic properties of matter by studying the
properties of exotic charm and beauty quarks. Quarks are elementary particles of
matter found in neutrons and protons.
Artuso is among a group of SU physicists who are actively involved in one of four
collaborative experiments at the 17-mile Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at the
CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN, the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. In her role as
test beam coordinator for the LHCb Velo project at CERN, Artuso helps develop
specialized tests to gain a better understanding of how the detector will perform
under long-term exposure to the violent collisions in the LHC.
Artuso is now turning her attention toward physics analyses that exploit the unique
properties of the LHCb vertex detector. She is also actively involved in the design of
the next-generation VELO system, which will significantly enhance the physics reach
of the experiment.
Closer to home, Artuso was instrumental in designing a particle identification system
for the CLEO Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH), which was built at SU in
1999 and installed in Cornell University's high-energy Electron Storage Ring.
Artuso's design for the RICH detector earned her international recognition from the
European Physical Society during the 7th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors in
Italy. CLEO was a collaborative, high-energy physics experiment funded by the
National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy from 1978 through
March of last year.
Over the years, Artuso has been a principal or co-principal investigator on a number
of large grants from the National Science Foundation in the areas of heavy quark
physics, the development of pixel detector devices for heavy quark physics, BTeV
research and development at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois,
charm physics at CLEO-c and beauty physics at LHCb, to name a few. Her research
has resulted in hundreds of publications in the broad areas of particle detector
development, design and construction; nuclear and intermediate energy physics;
heavy flavor physics data and analysis; and the future of b-quark particle physics.
Artuso has been, or currently is, a member of numerous national and international
panels, task forces and committees, including co-leader of the CLEO-c task force,
BTeV experiment technical board member, the Fermilab Directorate Review Panel
member, and a member of the CERN RD50 International Collaboration.
She is a 2008 recipient of SU's Chancellor's Citation for Faculty Excellence and
Scholarly Distinction and serves as co-director of SU's Women in Science and
Engineering Program (WISE).
Born in Italy, Artuso earned a Ph.D. in physics at Northwestern University in 1986.
She worked at Columbia University and Cornell University before joining the SU
faculty in 1991 as a research assistant professor of physics. She was promoted to
professor in 2005.
