LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2021

Aram Apyan ...exploring electroweak sector of SM and searches of BSM physics... vector boson scattering (VBS) processes ... measurements of the momenta of the forward jets and missing transverse energy ... in challenging high luminosity environments ... Machine learning techniques ... for extracting the maximum available information from HCAL/HGCAL at HL-LHC conditions ...
Freya Blekman ... search for 4 top production with full Run2 dataset ... CMS Physics communication ...
Philip Chang ... developing a novel search program of VBS multi-boson production with Higgs bosons in the final states ... search for BSM effects in the triboson production in semi-leptonic final states ... developing parallelizable tracking algorithm for HL-LHC...
Rajdeep Chatterjee ... precision ... measurement of the Higgs boson mass and width ... study the CP properties and anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson to vector bosons ... improving the reconstruction of electromagnetic objects ... Graph Neural Network ...
Sven Dildick ... search for long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying to hadronic showers in the muon detector ... developing new triggers that significantly enhance the sensitivity to such LLPs in preparation for Run-3 .. upgrade of the CSC and GEM trigger system ...
Allison Hall ... searching for dark matter... exotic signatures such as displaced lepton jets... software R&D to speed up the CMS track building...
Henning Kirschenmann ... generically applicable jet-energy regression... better forward jet performance in Run2/3, already well in advance of the advent of HGCAL and forward tracking... Vector Boson Scattering...
Clemens Lange ... Automated physics objects calibration workflows ... Novel high energy physics workload execution strategies ... Competitive searches for new physics ...
Christine McLean ... Jet substructure measurements ... Utilize coffea for JetMET workflows ... Machine learning explainability ... Phase-II tracker upgrades ...
Kevin Nash ... HL-LHC upgrade to the CMS outer tracker ... development of cutting edge machine learning algorithms ... application to BSM searches ... extending the analysis reach of the ImageMD tagging network ...
Christopher Palmer ... will expand the established search for two Higgs bosons to four bottom quarks into the VHH channel where there is an additional W or Z (that is, a vector boson, V) produced with the two Higgs bosons ... CMS outer tracker module production, building test systems and refining burn-in procedures for HL-LHC ...
Alexx Perloff ... looking for emerging jets arising from dark quarks ... jet tagging using deep learning ... Phase-2 L1 trigger upgrade project, focusing on the track trigger and global track trigger ... track reconstruction firmware as well as the hardware slice demonstrations ...
Fabio Ravera ... investigating production modes of new resonances decaying into Higgs bosons and new scalars ... develop a comprehensive and integrated framework for quality control (for) Phase II Outer Tracker production ...
Roger Rusack ... Teaching the second half of the LPC Instrumentation course ... focus on future detectors and detector technology ...
Emanuele Usai ... Outer Tracker Phase 2 upgrade modules assembly... search for rare four top standard model production ... develop advanced Machine Learning and computing tools for Run3 and beyond ... creating and maintaining a cluster of expertise in data preservation, analysis reproducibility, and open access at the LPC ...