In our recent analysis of rare decays for B mesons to dimuons we show that CMS can even with worse momentum resolution compete with the LHCb collaboration in the rare B decay arena. What we are missing in track momentum…
How we turned “nothing” into one of the tightest limits on dark matter A PPC spotlight on Phys. Rev. D 105, 092007 (2022) — CMS, “Search for invisible decays of the Higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion in proton–proton…
Turning the monojet’s most stubborn background into the widest net in the dark-matter hunt A PPC spotlight on JHEP 11, 153 (2021) — CMS, “Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton…
Turning the monojet most stubborn background into a precision measurement A PPC spotlight on JHEP 05, 205 (2021) — CMS, “Measurement of the Z boson differential production cross section using its invisible decay mode (Z → νν̄) in proton-proton collisions…
How a “boring” W⁺W⁻ cross section measurement quietly became one of the sharpest tests of the standard model, and then, almost as an afterthought, set the tightest limits on dimension-6 operators from this final state A PPC spotlight on the…
Why the Higgs boson is almost never emitted alongside dark matter, and why that makes it the cleanest place to look for it A PPC spotlight on the CMS search “Search for dark matter particles produced in association with a…
It is becoming clear now, after Dylan and Sid have already handed in, the era of the fabulous four is coming to an end soon. MonoPhoton here you go. On to save the planet at EAPS with our friend Chris…
Siddharth thesis was a tour de force designing a new Deep Neural Network based top tagger for CMS which used jet substructure and the at the time brand new energy correlation functions. Than it was used in the first Mono-top…
Aram defended his thesis successfully today. Markus Klute’s advisee came properly dressed for the occasion to talk about: “Electroweak physics and evidence for a Higgs Boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons with the CMS Detector“ It was a…
Context: Aram and CP made a bet about finishing his thesis early: In an effort to stimulate the dull Sunday at CERN, CP challenged Aram about his thesis completion. He offered him 2 bottles of Jack Daniels if he could…
