Imagine being part of a group of 3,000 people worldwide, all working on the same project!
That’s what Carleton PhD student Thomas McCarthy is doing. He is part of a team of scientists working on the ATLAS experiment. Over time, a number of Carleton University graduate students, research associates, staff, and faculty members have also worked on this project...
The focus of McCarthy’s research is a particle called the “top quark”.
Says McCarthy: “Quarks belong to a group of particles we believe to be fundamental. That means that, as far as we know, they can’t be broken down into smaller pieces. Quarks come in different ‘flavours’ with rather fanciful names: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. The top quark was the last of this list to be discovered.”
Read the full story on Thomas’ research on the Graduate Student Research page.