Wren Vetens
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
Wren Vetens is an experimental particle physicist, whose research leverages high energy colliders to study fundamental physics at unprecedented energy scales. She comes to Hamilton from a postdoc at Syracuse University, where as a member of the LHCb collaboration she investigated the physics of heavy quark flavors and researched a variety of detector technologies for use in future high-luminosity experiments. While pursuing her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, she was a member of the CMS collaboration and led a search for exotic long-lived particles at the LHC, and worked on CMS's gaseous muon detector subsystem.
Research Interests
Flavor physics, exotic particle searches, experimental particle physics, theoretical high energy physics
Distinctions
- Van Vleck Scholar, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016–2017)
- Sam Tepper Scholar, Sam Tepper Memorial Scholarship Foundation (2015–2016)
Selected Publications
- Hayrapetyan, A. et al. [CMS]. "Development of the CMS detector for the CERN LHC Run 3." JINST 19, no.05, P05064 (2024)
- CMS Collaboration (Lead Author). "A search for a stable six-quark uuddss bound state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV using the 2018 B-parked dataset." CMS CADi: EXO-24-003 (In Pre-Approval, 2024)
Appointed to the Faculty
2026Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
B.A., Reed College
