LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2024

Alice Bean ... improving CMS analysis tools for finding low pT objects ... electrons ... b-jet secondary vertices ... searches in compressed SUSY ... exploring brain inspired improvements to readout for precision space and time detection ...
Ruchi Chudasama ... end-to-end particle reconstruction and identification ... advanced deep-learning techniques ... light mass pseudoscalar to four hadronic taus as well as four electron decay of the Higgs boson ... testing of readout electronics for HGCAL ... HGCAL cassette assembly ...
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 ...
Pedro Fernández Manteca ... Run 3 CMS data search for long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying to hadronic showers ... CMS muon detectors ... developing new triggers ... enhance the sensitivity to exotic signatures ... Run 3 and Phase 2 ...
Eva Halkiadakis ...search for new physics signatures with jets in CMS ... jet substructure... High Luminosity LHC upgrade of the CMS outer tracker ...
Georgios Krintiras ... understand what extent nonperturbative particle production mechanisms can limit precise inference from the LHC pQCD data ... studying soft in-jet particle production using the large pp data samples ... develop efficient online identification of highly anisotropic events... pileup mitigation techniques ...
Martin Kwok ... long-lived particle searches using Muon Detector Shower(MDS)... new triggers using MDS signature ... migrating GPU algorithms from CUDA to Alpaka...
Christopher Madrid ... work on the Mip endcap timing layer (ETL) ... overseeing the production module assembly ... perform a Dark Matter search with CMS ... targeting non-resonant strongly coupled DM, which produces semi-visible jet objects ... develop innovative machine learning techniques ...
Luigi Marchese ... BPhysics ...Beyond Standard Model (BSM) ... Lepton-Flavour-Universality Violation (LFUV)... ECAL...DCS... Trigger development, maintenance and commissioning ...
Patrick McCormack ... integrating GPUs into CMS workflows to accelerate algorithms via an Inference-as-a-Service scheme called SONIC ("Services for Optimized Network Inference on Coprocessors") ... machine learning-based anomaly detection techniques for discovering new physics at the LHC ...
Ulascan Sarica ... development of a CMS-wide coherent program for off-shell Higgs boson measurements ... full combination with other Higgs boson couplings measurements ... topical workshops organized at the LPC ... address the new challenges for Run 3 off-shell analyses...
Phat Srimanobhas ... Full, Fast, and Flash simulations for CMS ... CMS Phase-2 software ... studying highly ionized particles, such as magnetic monopoles ... exploring tracking algorithms and triggers specifically designed for these highly ionized particle candidates ...
Marko Stamenkovic ... search for new physics beyond the Standard Model through measurements of the Higgs boson self-coupling ... ...
Keith Ulmer ... enhance the CMS triggering capabilities ... development of an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for anomaly detection implemented in the Level 1 hardware ... record anomalous events in Run 3 that were previously inaccessible due to trigger limitations ... explore analysis opportunities for new dark sector searches ... emerging jets ... soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) ... developing charged particle tracking for the L1 trigger ... exploring new signatures for beyond the standard model physics such as long-lived particles decaying to displaced jets ...