Some Important Contributions:
"Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J," Phys. Rev. Lett. 33: 1404 (1974), with J.J. Aubert, U. Becker, P.J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T.G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, S.C.C. Ting.
Discovery of the J/ particle
which is a bound state of charm and anticharm quarks. This discovery wa
an important step leading to understanding of the fundamental structure of matter
in terms of leptons and quarks.
"A Method of Three-jet Analysis in e+ e- Annihilation," Z. Phys. C 2: 107 (1979), with George Zobernig.
Important analysis enabling identification of gluon jet events which are fundamental processes in quantum chromodynamics. This method was used in the following publication.
"Evidence for Planar Events in e+ e- Annihilation at High Energies," Phys. Lett. B 86: 243 (1979) with TASSO Collaboration, R. Brandelik et al..
Events are explained by e+ e-
annihilation into a quark-antiquark pair with radiation of a gluon - gluon radiation is a fundamental process of quantum
chromodynamics (QCD). For a detailed explanation see "The First Evidence for Three-jet Events in e+ e- Collisions at Petra - First Direct Observation of the Gluon," Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, 1995, Brussels, Belgium. This was a talk given by Professor Wu at the award to her and Paul Söding, Björn Wiik, and Günter Wolf of the 1995 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.
"Determination of the Number of Light Neutrino Species", Phys. Lett. B 231: 519 (1989) with ALEPH Collaboration, D. DeCamp et al..
Determination that the number of light neutrino species is three.
"Evidence for b baryons in Z decays", Phys. Lett. B 278: 209 (1992) with
ALEPH Collaboration, D Decamp et al..
Discovery of baryon composed of d, s, and b quarks - the Lambdab.
"Observation of the semileptonic decays of Bs and Lambdab hadron
at LEP," Phys. Lett. B 294: 145 (1992) with ALEPH Collaboration, D. Buskulic et al..
First discovery by the Wisconsin Group of Sau Lan Wu in the ALEPH collaboration of the Bs meson by direct observation.
Outstanding Junior Investigator Award of U.S. Department of Energy, 1980"for the first evidence for three-jet events in e+e- collisions at PETRA - first direct observation of the gluon."Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996
Romnes Faculty Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1981
Hilldale Professorship, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1991
Fellow, American Physical Society 1992
High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society 1995,
with Paul Söding, Björn Wiik, and Günter Wolf:
Vitas Professorship, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1998
1970-72 Research Associate, Physics Department, MIT
1972-77 Research Physicist, Physics Department, MIT
1975-77 Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
1977-80 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1977-86 Visiting Scientist, DESY, Hamburg, West Germany
1980-83 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1983- Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1986- Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
1990- Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A. Vassar College 1963
M.A. Harvard University 1964
Ph.D. Harvard University 1970
Jane Nachtman and Sau Lan Wu
For her description of her research interests click here
See the ALEPH detector at CERN.
Up to 1998, twenty-four graduate students have obtained Ph.D. degrees under the
supervision of Professor Wu. Click here for her homepage with their names.
Sau Lan Wu is married to Professor T. T. Wu of Harvard University.
Field Editor: Sau Lan Wu/Nina Byers