LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2022

Samuel Bein ... BSM ... dark matter, SUSY (supersymmetry) ... simulation ... FastSim ... machine learning...
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...
Karri DiPetrillo ... leverage unconventional track signatures to discover Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics ... anomalous or displaced tracks ... large multiplicities of low momentum charged particles ... leading the first CMS search for soft-unclustered energy patterns ... module characterization for the Phase 2 Outer Tracker Upgrade ...
Raffaele Gerosa ... measurement of Higgs boson self-interaction by exploring the HH→4b final state .. developing new dedicated HH→4b triggers for Run3 including improvement in b-jet and H(bb) tagging via cutting-edge ML techniques ... design the new generation of the HH→4b analysis .. contribute to the development of a framework for quality control of Phase2 Outer Tracker module production ...
Clemens Lange ... Automated physics objects calibration work๏ฌ‚ows ... Novel high energy physics workload execution strategies ... Competitive searches for new physics ...
Jingyu Luo ... flavor tagging ... long-lived particles ... triggers ... outer-tracker upgrade ...
Christine McLean ... jet substructure measurements ... Utilize coffea for JME workflows ... preparing jet and MET objects for Run 3 and beyond ... Machine learning explainability ...
Deborah Pinna ... exploring events where dark matter particles are produced in association with top quarks in the boosted regime ... precision measurements of triple top quark production ... Run 3 trigger development and studies, exploiting for e.g. the usage of GPUs at HLT or scouting ...
Daniel Spitzbart ... developing readout electronics and test software for the endcap timing layer (ETL) of the CMS Phase II upgrade ... setup test stand at FNAL ... leading the first search for the top quark โ€“ W boson scattering process ...
David Yu ... boosted dijet searches using trigger-level objects ... HCAL local energy reconstruction using machine learning ... HCAL machine learning-based data quality monitoring ... HGCAL trigger primitives ...
Fengwangdong Zhang ...search for an exotic decay of a SM Higgs boson and/or a heavy Higgs boson into light Higgs partners ...deep learning technique to tag overlapping ๐žƒ๐žƒ pairs from reconstructed jets ... CMS outer tracker (OT) module assembly and reliability tests .. campaigns of beam tests ... OT detector mechanics construction ...
Jingyu Zhang ... searching for light pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a) in boosted H→aa→ฮผฮผ๐žƒ๐žƒ final state ... new analysis searching for a in direct gluon fusion production using boosted di-tau final state ... establish the readout of the HGCAL scintillator for the evolving designs of the scintillator tileboard...