LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2017

Claudio Campagnari ... searches in events with jets and MET and events with same-sign dileptons, jets, and MET ...
Ulrich Heintz ... searches for vector like quarks in the 13 TeV data from CMS, using jet substructure, deepen the collaboration between universities and Fermilab on the Phase 2 outer tracker project ...
Ketino Kaadze ... analyses involving taus in final state and search for new phenomena in early data of Run 2 ...
Norbert Neumeister ... searches for new particles in dilepton final states and development of muon reconstruction algorithms ...
Bjoern Penning ... hadronic searches, in particular searches for dark matter and MC production for CMS ...
Roberto Rossin ... development of a simulation framework for the CMS Track Trigger (TT) upgrade project (Phase 2) ...
Alexander Schmidt ... searching for specific scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model such as Vector-Like quarks and heavy resonances (Z', W') ...
Seema Sharma ... inclusive analysis to search for gluinos as well as a targeted search for stop quark search using jets and missing transverse energy ...
Jamie Antonelli ... designing a forward pixel detector for use at the HL-LHC, leading the simulation efforts as well as participating in sensor R&D here at FNAL ...
Josh Bendavid ... searches for anomalous Higgs production, precision timing studies for Phase-2 upgrades, development of machine learning techniques for physics analysis, reconstruction, and Monte Carlo generation ...
Jordan Damgov ... search for heavy resonance in semileptonic di-boson channels and contribute to the HGCAL testbeam program for the Phase 2 upgrades ...
Julie Hogan ... prototyping Phase II outer tracker sensor modules toward finalizing production methods, and searching for vector-like quarks in Run 2 data with deep learning techniques ...
Ben Kreis ... search for anomalous Higgs couplings for Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson, with decays to exotic, long-lived particles ...
Matteo Cremonesi ... searches for Dark Matter (DM) production at CMS, co-leading the monotop analysis, promoting at the LPC the exchange on DM direct and indirect detection and production at the LHC ...
Andrew Melo ... searches for Supersymmetry, predominantly in scenarios which result in tau leptons in the final state, and explore the changes and upgrades needed to scale CMS computing infrastructure to meet the demands of higher luminosities ...
Abdollah Mohammadi ... search for Dark Matter (DM) in newly proposed "Coannihilation Codex" model and observation of the SM Higgs boson to a pair of tau leptons ...
Sezen Sekmen ... extend and generalize SUSY searches with boosted objects with new channels and methods, coordinate the FastSim development effort to improve the consistency between FullSim and FastSim ...
Marco Trovato ... development of a L1 tracking trigger for the phase 2 upgrade of CMS, searches for direct dark matter production ...
Caterina Vernieri ... developing and testing sensors for the pixel detector for the CMS phase II upgrade at FNAL, and search for boosted standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks ...
Marc Weinberg ... searches for new phenomena beyond the standard model, particularly signatures with photons and leptons, development of the high-granularity calorimeter (HGCAL) for the CMS Phase 2 endcap calorimetry ...
Giovanni Zevi Della Porta ... inclusive searches for supersymmetry, in events with jets and MET, events with same-sign dileptons and events with a single low-momentum (soft) lepton and MET ...