LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2023

Sridhara Dasu ... CMS Level-1 trigger development for Run-3 and HL-LHC at the LPC ... machine learning techniques for triggering ... test stands ... access to APx-trigger boards ... build a future collider community ...
Daniel Diaz ... targeting searches for long-lived particles ... upgrade the CMS Level-1 (L1) trigger ... ultrafast machine learning (ML) algorithms...
Jennet Dickinson ... measurements of high-energy Higgs boson production ... explore possible interpretations in terms of Effective Field Theory (EFT) ... CMS Outer Tracker upgrade ... development of testing and quality assurance procedures for modules and macro-pixel sub-assemblies (MaPSA) ... possibility of using machine learning on-ASIC to simplify data read-out ...
Michael Krohn ...developing and testing the front-end electronics readout chain for the HGCAL ... lead the test beam effort to test new scintillator tiles and tileboard designs ... search for a right-handed W boson and heavy neutrino in the new Run-3 data ... machine learning and improved background modeling ...
Jingyu Luo ... look for hadronic decays of exotic long-lived particles (LLPs) ... new displaced-jet triggers, new vertex reconstruction algorithm, and new advanced machine-learning algorithm ... developing new flavor tagging algorithms using advanced machine learning tools ... HL-LHC outer-tracker upgrade ...
Garyfallia (Lisa) Paspalaki ... events containing three heavy bosons (VVV) searches and their interpretation in the content of an Effective Field Theory using the full Run 2 dataset ... integration of a new method to mitigate the pile up effects using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) ...
Juska Pekkanen ...improved Particle Flow hadron calibration ... integration of HGCAL and PF algorithm ... outreach and educational activities ...
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 ...
Titas Roy ... searches for heavy resonances decaying in ttbar pairs ... precision top measurements: charge asymmetry of boosted top quark pairs ... CMS Inner tracker phase 2 upgrade ... testing modules and studying different kinds of sensors....
Ozgur Sahin ... DAQ system development for MTD ETL validate the ETL readout chain ... timing monitoring system ... improvement of machine learning methods X->HY->bbγγ process ...
Robert Schöfbeck ... explore SM-EFT in searches and measurements in the Top & Higgs sectors with new dedicated machine learning algorithms ... making high-dimensional SM-EFT results a reality....
Nick Smith ... building the CMS Higgs-EFT effort ... large-scale combination analysis within the SMEFT framework. ...
Daniel Spitzbart ... further developing the frontend electronics and optimizing the mechanical design and layout of the endcap timing layer (ETL) of the CMS Phase II upgrade ... test beam campaign at FNAL ... potential of the MIP timing detector to discover new physics beyond the SM ... new search for time-delayed electrons originating from Higgs boson decays to right-handed neutrinos ...
Nadja Strobbe ... searches for R-Parity Violating (RPV) Supersymmetry (SUSY)... HGCAL ...
Jonathan Wilson ... HGCAL electronics: firmware design for emulation and testing of the trigger concentrator (ECON-T) and data concentrator (ECON-D) ... top quark studies using effective field theory ...
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 𝞃𝞃 pairs from reconstructed jets ... CMS outer tracker (OT) module reliability tests .. campaigns of beam tests ... OT flat barrel integration project ... multi-channel test setup using LabVIEW ...
Jingyu Zhang ... searching for light pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a) in boosted H→aa→μμ𝞃𝞃 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...