LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2019

Douglas Berry ... search for a high mass Z' boson ... the phase-II FPIX upgrade ...
Saptaparna Bhattacharya ... characterizing timing properties of the High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) ... for pile-up mitigation ... leading to robust particle identification. ... search for Standard Model triple-W production with boosted jets ...
Luca Cadamuro ... Higgs boson pair production in the decay channel to four bottom quarks ... vector boson fusion production mode ...global reconstruction algorithms that combine the muon system with the inner tracker system information ... hardware implementation of machine learning techniques ... upgraded Level-1 trigger hardware algorithm ...
Yangyang Cheng ... new physics, in particular new dark sector models with long-lived particles... displaced leptons or photons...detector upgrade studies for HL-LHC ... collaboration with theorists for future dark matter searches ...
Mariarosaria D'Alfonso ... new detector longitudinal segmentation in global event reconstruction of CMS ... forward detector improvements ... Vector Boson Scattering ...
Nicola De Filippis ... measurement of the cross section of the production of the Higgs boson via the vector boson fusion (VBF) mechanism... and the search for double Higgs boson production in the final state bbZZ ... impact of the Phase II CMS upgrade on the reconstruction of the Higgs boson in the four-lepton channel …
Javier Mauricio Duarte ... high-pT Higgs boson with 2017 and 2018 data, with improvements from deep learning in the Higgs-tagging strategy... initiate activities related to analyzing CMS scouting data ... contribute to Phase-2 Level-1 Global Correlator Trigger upgrade ... explore applications of machine learning in FPGAs ...
Sergei Gleyzer ... working on advanced deep learning techniques for rare Higgs searches ... machine learning applications to detector upgrades and trigger system ... foster collaborative efforts in machine learning ...
Loukas Gouskos ... Search for physics beyond the Standard Model... Search for Higgs to a pair of charm quarks... jet substructure ... machine learning techniques for event reconstruction and physics analysis ...
Alexander Grohsjean ... conclude two complementary searches for dark mattter (DM): top quark associated DM production and a search for new scalar particles decaying into top quarks ... two-D measurement of the ttbar spin density matrix ... first simultaneous fits to unfolded top and Higgs observables to constraint selected EFT operators ...
Andreas Jung ... ..top quark precision frontier...challenge the SM at unprecedented levels...HL-LHC silicon detector upgrade projects...test beams and sensor R&D...
Markus Klute ... probing the nature of the Higgs boson ... particle flow algorithm improvements for HL-LHC ... computing model advances for HL-LHC ...
Daniel Noonan ...measurements of the top quark ... the Phase 2 HGCAL detector upgrade...
Ana Ovcharova ...explore the use of boosted top and Higgs reconstruction tools based on deep-learning to extend the mass reach of SUSY searches ... contribute to the design of the readout chip for the MIP timing detector...
Nathaniel Joseph Pastika ... advanced methods of top tagging employing machine learning techniques ... looking specifically for third generation sparticles whose final states contain top and bottom quarks... ongoing phase 1 and 2 calorimeter upgrade effort ...
Kevin J Pedro ... search for semi-visible jets, which are jets containing a mixture of visible and invisible particles ... software development for the Phase 2 detector upgrades ...
Jan-Frederik Schulte ... searches for new physics ... high mass dilepton events with both resonant and non-resonant signatures... Tracking POG co-convener ... coordinating the CMS efforts on improving the track reconstruction for Run 3 ... interested in new machine learning techniques in tracking...
Nadja Strobbe ... ... searches for Stealth and RPV SUSY in final states with 2 top quarks, many jets, and no missing transverse momentum... Phase 2 upgrade of the Endcap Calorimeter ... ...
Hannsjörg Weber ... third generation SUSY searches and combinations … SM multiboson analyses, promoting common anomalous gauge coupling interpretation ...
Zhenbin Wu ... search for the top squark in all-hadronic final state ... SUSY top quark tagger trained with deep neural network technique... correlator system of Phase 2 Level-1 trigger ... jet clustering and substructure algorithm L1...
David Ren-Hwa Yu ... searches for new bosons in hadronic final states.. candidates for mediators of interactions between dark matter and Standard Model particles.. b-tagging, trigger-level analyses, and boosted production with jet substructure.. HCAL data quality and monitoring ... automatization of the monitoring workflows using machine learning ... upgrade HCAL readout ...