CMS guides for your virtual visit:
Andre David
André is presently focused on the upgrade of the CMS endcap calorimeter for the HL-LHC phase, starting in the mid 2020s. The new calorimeter is a highly-granular silicon detector presenting multiple challenges.
Between 2015 and 2017, André co-convened the CMS Higgs Physics Analysis group. He used the CERN hostel for the first time in the year 2000 just before he decided to embark on a PhD in the NA60 fixed-target experiment. He worked on the silicon pixel and microstrip detectors of NA60 and his analysis of intermediate mass dimuon events paved the way for the discovery of thermal radiation shining off a QGP in heavy-ion collisions.
In 2006, André joined the CMS experiment where he led the commissioning of the ECAL. With the first LHC collision data, he went to perform the first LHC cross-section measurement of isolated single photon production.
Since 2010 that André was heavily involved in the search for - and later observation of - the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel. André's need to understand the big picture led him to become one of the conveners of the CMS Higgs Combination and Properties group, as well as CMS contact in the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group for exploring the properties of this new particle. Before the LHC Run 2, André was a major contributor to the CMS combination of Run 1 Higgs results, and was deeply involved in combinations between ATLAS and CMS, such as the LHC combined measurement of the Higgs boson mass, which is the scientific article with the largest ever number of co-authors.
André's interests include science communication and the usefulness of CERN for non-particle physicists in general. That is why he is a CERN official guide since 2004 and was involved with the CLOUD experiment for six years.
Twitter: @DrAndreDavid
Patricia Rebello Teles
Bachelor in Mathematics, Master and PhD in Physics.
I am mother of a awesome 29 years old boy, Michel 🙂
In the CMS Collaboration, since October 2012, working with:
1. gauge boson pair production in the vector boson fusion topology (when there are two spectators jets),
2. central exclusive production (LHC as a photon collider)
3. Monte Carlo Generators (Pythia Tunning using MinBias events)
4. CMSSW release validations and Data Reconstruction in the Physics Performance and Dataset (PPD) group.
From 2020, I moved to the CMS ECAL project where
1. I coordinate the PromtpT Feedback (PFG) group of ECAL,
2. participate in ECAL PFG and Trigger shifts and
3. work with Spike Killers for Heavy Ion data taken period.
From 2022, in Brazil, I am coordinating the project “Physics of Heavy Ions and operation of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter in the CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN” which is ongoing at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF) in Rio de Janeiro.
Joining recently the Heavy Ion group in CMS, I am aimed to work on data taken and analyses related to
1. jets, missing transverse energy and
2. Ultraperipheral Collisions (photon fluxes from high accelerated ions make LHC a photon collider)
I belong to CMS Shift Leader and Visitors Guide team since 2015.
Always involved in scientific outreach and supporting women and girls in STEM.
CMS virtual visits technical experts:
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
Zoltan and Noemi, physicists, PhD in particle physics
During the last 20 years they have been working for Hardware Muon Barrel Alignment System and Fiber Optical Sensing System at CMS
Their big hobby has been the CMS Virtual visits since the beginning.
