LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2015

Cecilia Gerber ... contributing to the testing of the CMS Phase 1 Forward Pixel detector modules and searching for new physics that decays preferentially to top quark pairs ...
Greg Landsberg ... searches for new physics and exotic Higgs decays, as well as dark matter searches ...
Martijn Mulders ... preparing for high-priority top physics analyses that can immediately be performed when the LHC turns on at the new energy of 13 TeV ...
Salvatore Rappoccio ... looking for new physics signatures that include highly-boosted W/Z/H bosons and top quarks ...
Roger Rusack ... developing the idea and performing the R&D needed to build the High Granularity Calorimeter ...
Artur Apresyan ... understanding the origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking, and searches for direct experimental evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model ...
Gabriele Benelli ... enabling LPC residents to get involved in critical operations and calibration activities, training the future Strip tracker expert generation necessary to strengthen the Tracker project and ensure its continued successful operation ...
Giuseppe Cerati ... focus on the analysis of same-sign dilepton events with Run 2 data and improve the sensitivity of CMS analyses in this final state ...
Souvik Das ... leading searches for Higgs boson pair production in 13 TeV data ...
Phillip Dudero ... searches for Heavy Higgs, and electroweak multiboson production and scattering in the semileptonic channel with searches for anomalous gauge couplings ...
Daniel Duggan ... leading the upgrade effort for the online DQM framework in preparation for Run II, including the development of an interface to the new file-based data aquisition system ...
Sadia Khalil ... VLQ searches in single production channel with focus on bottom like heavy quarks and searches with SUSY models with low missing transverse energy ...
Hongxuan Liu ... improve the top tagger used in the 8 TeV analysis, use the top tagger for gluino-mediated stop production and direct stop production covering topologies with different branching fraction of the stop decays ...
Maurizio Pierini ... preparing for Run II within PPD, analysis in EXO and SUSY, finishing the studies we started in Run I and preparing the Run II analysis campaign ...
John Stupak ... exploiting jet substructure techniques in the boosted regime of associated Higgs production to reduce these backgrounds, improve the sensitivity, and firmly establish the decay to b quarks ...