Sarah Demers

Sarah Demers
Other names	Sarah Marie Demers Konezny
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Rochester
Scientific career
Institutions	Roberts Wesleyan University CERN Yale University
Thesis	A measurement of BR(t -->[tau nuq)] (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Kevin McFarland

Sarah Demers is an American physicist and the Horace D. Taft associate professor of physics at Yale University.

Early life and education

Demers graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1994.^[1] Demers has an A.B. in Physics from Harvard University (1999).^[2] In 2001 she received an M.A. from the University of Rochester,^[3] and in 2005 she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.^[4] At Rochester, her doctoral advisor was Kevin McFarland.^[5]

She taught at Roberts Wesleyan University before accepting a postdoctoral position during which time she worked in Geneva at CERN. In 2009 she moved to Yale University where, as of 2022, she is the Horace D. Taft associate professor of physics at Yale University.^[6][7]

At Yale, Demers co-teaches a class at Yale on the Physics of Dance with fellow professor Emily Coates,^[8] and Demers appears in Coates' 2015 show 'Incarnations'.^[9]

Research

Demers is a particle physicist. As an undergraduate she worked in the laboratory of Melissa Franklin^[2] and made sheets of gold-coated Mylar into detectors for tracking elemental particles.^[10] Her work examines charged particles to find new methods in physics beyond the accepted Standard Model.^[11] Demers was part of the team who discovered the Higgs boson,^[12] and her work is conducted at the Large Hadron Collider.^[13] Demers also works on the ATLAS experiment and the Mu2e experiments.^[3]

Selected publications

• Coates, Emily; Demers, Sarah (2019). Physics and dance. New Haven. ISBN 978-0-300-24063-4. OCLC 1076873286.^[14]
• Particle Data Group; Workman, R L; Burkert, V D; Crede, V; Klempt, E; Thoma, U; Tiator, L; Agashe, K; Aielli, G; Allanach, B C; Amsler, C; Antonelli, M; Aschenauer, E C; Asner, D M; Baer, H (2022-08-08). "Review of Particle Physics". Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. 2022 (8): 083C01. doi:10.1093/ptep/ptac097. hdl:20.500.11850/571164. ISSN 2050-3911.
• Atlas Collaboration (2012-06-26). "Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H → τ + τ − decay mode in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with ATLAS". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012 (9). arXiv:1206.5971v1. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2012)070. S2CID 256011890.

Awards and honors

In 2011 Demers received an early career award from the United States' Department of Energy.^[15]

She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for important contributions to tau lepton triggering and identification and using the tau signature in the study of Higgs production and decay, and for important leadership both within the ATLAS collaboration and the broader physics community".^[16]

References

1. "Sarah Marie Demers". News and Citizen - Morrisville, Vermont. August 4, 1994.
2. "Sarah Demers: Z Bosons Are Real". The Story Collider. May 5, 2017. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
3. "Demers CV | Demers Group @ Yale". demerslab.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
4. "A measurement of BR(t -->[tau nu]q) | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
5. Physics, American Institute of (2022-03-21). "Sarah Demers". www.aip.org. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
6. "Sarah Demers | Yale Explores". yaleexplores.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
7. "Six Women in New Teaching Roles". Women in Academia Report. March 5, 2015 – via ProQuest.
8. Burke, Siobhan; Seibert, Brian (2017-03-21). "Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
9. Jowitt, Deborah (2015-03-23). "Review: Emily Coates and Yve Laris Cohen, a Dialogue of Choreographers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
10. Scoles, Sarah (May 31, 2016). "What Does Beauty Have To Do with Physics?". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
11. Hansen, Nathan (28 April 2017). "A Universe of Knowledge". The La Crosse Tribune. pp. [1], [2].
12. "Yale physicists on tap to hold discussion over beer". New Haven Register; New Haven, Conn. [New Haven, Conn]. October 16, 2014. pp. A7.
13. "Large Hadron Collider starts 3rd run to unravel more mysteries about the Universe". All Things Considered; Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.: NPR. July 5, 2022 – via ProQuest.
14. Reviews for Physics and Dance
    • Baldwin, Melinda; Cummings, Cynthia (2019). "New books & media". Physics Today. 72 (1): 58. Bibcode:2019PhT....72a..58B. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4116. ISSN 0031-9228.
    • Craig, Mary (2019-10-15). "The social-media war, reclaiming classics from the alt-right, and a fusion of physics and dance: New in paperback". Nature. 574 (7778): 324–330. Bibcode:2019Natur.574..324C. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03053-x. S2CID 204709655.
15. Lang, Michelle (May 17, 2011). "DOE awards Early Career Awards to 11 New England researchers". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
16. "2023 Fellows". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2023-10-19.

External links

• Potential poetics | Emily Coates and Sarah Demers | TEDxYale on YouTube
• Oral history interview with Demers at the American Institute of Physics