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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions in the design and execution of experiments probing beyond the Standard Model especially the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and the precise measurement of the muon magnetic moment, and the development of photodetection and low radioactivity instrumentation to advance the capabilities of high energy physics experiments

Overview

P. Cushman is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a dominant focus on Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Their research work extensively covers topics related to Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, and Particle Detector Development and Performance. Additional areas of study include Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, Neutrino Physics Research, Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies, and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

The scientist has contributed significantly through numerous publications, with a consistent presence in leading journals such as Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Constraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Constraints on dark photons and axionlike particles from the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Investigating the sources of low-energy events in a SuperCDMS-HVeV detector, 2022, Physical Review D
  • First Measurement of the Nuclear-Recoil Ionization Yield in Silicon at 100 eV, 2023, Physical Review Letters

Frequent publication venues also include arXiv (Cornell University), Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, and Nature Reviews Physics.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with colleagues including M. Fritts, N. Mast, T. Saab, Y.-Y. Chang, and M. E. Huber, reflecting a network of co-authors involved in their research endeavors.

P. Cushman has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), noted for contributions to experiments probing beyond the Standard Model, including the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and precise measurements related to the muon magnetic moment, as well as the development of photodetection and low radioactivity instrumentation. They have also been awarded Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

    S. Chatrchyan;G. Hmayakyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan

  • Final report of the E821 muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement at BNL

    G. W. Bennett;B. Bousquet;H. N. Brown;G. Bunce

  • Charged particle multiplicities in pp interactions at sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Observation of long-range, near-side angular correlations in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Search for leptonic decays of W' bosons in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance

    G. L. Bayatian;S. Chatrchyan;G. Hmayakyan;A. M. Sirunyan

  • Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp collisions at \sqrt {s} = 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Measurement of the negative muon anomalous magnetic moment to 0.7 ppm

    GW Bennett;B Bousquet;HN Brown;G Bunce

  • Precise measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment.

    H. N. Brown;G. Bunce;R. M. Carey;Priscilla B Cushman

  • Observation and studies of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Determination of jet energy calibration and transverse momentum resolution in CMS

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Dark matter search results from the CDMS II experiment.

    Jodi Cooley;Z. Ahmed;D. S. Akerib;S. Arrenberg

  • Strange Particle Production in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in p p Collisions at s = 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Silicon detector dark matter results from the final exposure of CDMS II

    R. Agnese;Z. Ahmed;A. J. Anderson;S. Arrenberg

  • CMS Tracking Performance Results from early LHC Operation.

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data

    Z. Ahmed;D. S. Akerib;S. Arrenberg;C. N. Bailey

  • Search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles with SuperCDMS.

    R. Agnese;A. J. Anderson;M. Asai;D. Balakishiyeva

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