Research Interests:
I am a high-energy experimental physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider, which is located 100 meters underground at the border of France and Switzerland.
The searches for the new physics beyond the Standard Model can be derived from multiple perspectives. Many evidences are telling us that the Standard Model of particle physics is not complete, such as the evidence of the existence of dark matter, dark energy, and the questions of naturalness.
The recent discovered Higgs boson can be a good candidate of a mediator to the new physics. The most recent Higgs combinations studies still reveal a large possibility of Higgs boson coupling to new fundamental particles. The low mass regime has not been fully covered by ATLAS and CMS experiments. The kinematics of these searches requires the development of innovative ways to reconstruct and identify boosted objects, for which the decay products produce very peculiar and challenging experimental topologies.
Another approach is to take a very precise measurement of the Standard Model. As a hadron collider, LHC is a top factory that makes it possible to better understand this heaviest fundamental particle which was discovered in 1995. The top property that I am working with to measure is the spin polarization of the top quark, produced in the single top t-channel, which has never been measured in a high precision before.
I also work on varies of operation and upgrade projects of the ATLAS detector. During my Ph.D., I studied the simulation on the performance of the New Small Wheel, which is one of the major upgrades of the Muon Spectrumeter for High Luminosity LHC . Starting from Phase I and for the upcoming Run 3, I work as one of the run coordinators of the Liquid Argon Calorimeter operation, mainly respective to the online software and the trigger and timing control system.
Ph.D. thesis:
Search for exotic Higgs boson decays to four leptons with the ATLAS detector, Urbana, Illinois, USA
List of public talks:
Searches for BSM Higgs at ATLAS , Weak Interactions and Neutrinos 2021, vitrual confrerence, June 7-12, 2021.
Simulation of the ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) System, 5th International Conference on Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, May 22-26, 2017.
Selected list of publications:
Search for Higgs decays to beyond the standard model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV, JHEP 06 (2018) 066.
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to new spin-0 or spin-1 particles in four-lepton final states at the ATLAS detector with 139 fb$^{-1}$ of pp collision data at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV, ATLAS-COM-CONF-2021-054.
Measurement of the polarisation of single top quarks and antiquarks produced in the $t$-channel collected with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV and bounds on the $tWb$ dipole operator, ATLAS-COM-CONF-2021-035.
Search for Higgs boson decays to Beyond-the-Standard-Model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV,ATLAS-COM-CONF-2017-056.
Simulation of the ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) System, PoS MPGD2017 (2019) 050.
Summary of Exotic Higgs Boson Decays from the ATLAS Experiment, ATL-COM-PHYS-2021-064.
Exotic Higgs Decay Summary Plots, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2018-045.
Publication list (beyond HEP):
Enhanced synthesis of Sn nanowires with aid of Se atom via physical vapor transportl, 15 June 2015, J. Cryst. Growth.
Trends in mica–mica adhesion reflect the influence of molecular details on long-range dispersion forces underlying aggregation and coalignment, June 8, 2017, Proc Natl Acd Sci.