Tulika Bose is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research focuses on developing triggers for experimental searches of new phenomena in high energy physics. Bose is a leader within the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, a CERN collaboration famous for its experimental observation of the Higgs boson in 2012.

Early life and education

Bose completed a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Delhi in India in 1996 and a B.A. in the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge in 1998.^[1] Subsequently, Bose performed doctoral research at Columbia University, receiving her PhD in experimental particle physics in 2006.^[2] Her PhD dissertation, entitled "Search for B_s⁰ oscillations at DØ", describes the collection and analysis of data from the DZero experiment at Fermilab from 2002 to 2005.^[3] Bose completed post-doctoral training at Brown University.^[1]

Career

Bose was an Assistant Professor (2008-2015) and then an Associate Professor (2015-2018) of Physics at Boston University,^[2] before becoming a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018.^[1] She was Trigger Coordinator of the CMS experiment from 2014 to 2016,^[1] overseeing the triggering and data acquisition of proton-proton collision experiments at CERN.^[4] From 2017 to 2019, she was the CMS Physics Co-Coordinator,^[1] acting as one of the two scientists who organized reviews of 100 yearly research publications from the CMS experiment.^[5]

Bose has served on several international and national committees, including as an elected member of the APS Division of Particles and Field (DPF) executive committee^[1] and a member of the Fermilab LHC Physics Center Management Board.^[6]

Awards and honors

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2012)^[7]
• LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher Award (2014)^[8]
• Elected fellow of the American Physical Society (2019): “For leadership coordinating the CMS physics program and trigger system, and for contributions to the development of high level triggers and searches for heavy vector bosons and vector-like quarks.”^[9]

Selected publications

• “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”, CMS Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 716 (2012) 30.
• “Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV”, CMS Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 710 (2012) 26.
• “Search for a W′ or Techni-rho decaying into WZ in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV”, CMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 071803.
• “Search for top-quark partners with charge 5/3 in the same-sign dilepton final state”, CMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 112 171801 (2014).
• "Search for W' to tb in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV", CMS Collaboration, JHEP 02 (2016) 122.
• “The CMS Trigger system”, CMS Collaboration, JINST 12 (2017) no.01, P01020, arXiv:1609.02366 [physics.ins-det].

Tulika Bose publications indexed by Google Scholar

In the media

Bose has been featured in several articles and interviews, including:

• BBC interview on the success of the Large Hadron Collider (2010)
• "CERN People", a film series that highlights people who work at CERN (2014). Of the series, Bose says, “This project was a good opportunity to document a particularly volatile time with not only the disappointing results in my own work, but also the excitement of the discovery of the Higgs Boson.” ^[10]
• Article for the Boston University online research news site,The Brink (2015)
• DNews Plus interview about designing high energy physics experiments (2016)
• Symmetry Magazine video about detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (2017)

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