Dark Matter | Higgs Boson | Top Quark | AI in Particle Physics | Upgrade of CMS Muon Detector at CERN | Micropattern Gas Detectors | ePIC experiment at Electron-Ion Collider | Muon Tomography
The work of the experimental High-Energy Particle Physics (HEP) group is centered on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, the European Center for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. This experiment is conducted by a large international collaboration of scientists making precision measurements of the laws governing the known elementary particles and the fundamental forces between them. The FIT HEP group currently focuses on measurements of top quark properties and entanglement utilizing new machine learning algorithms in addition to standard data analysis techniques. CMS also searches for new physics phenomena; here the FIT HEP group is searching for dark matter particles and heavy top quark partners. On the instrumentation side, the group is involved in a major CMS upgrade to prepare the experiment for running at the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the next phase of the LHC that is scheduled to begin operations in 2026. We are building and commissioning large GEM detectors for the CMS muon upgrade drawing on our experience with advanced gaseous particle detectors, such as GEM and micro-RWELL detectors. The group is investigating these micro-pattern gas detector technologies also for tracking detectors to be employed in the new ePIC experiment at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The group operates a Linux cluster and a GPU cluster. Members of our group are often stationed at Fermilab near Chicago or at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to conduct their research.
Faculty: Souvik Das, Marcus Hohlmann