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Summer 2017 Student Project Proposals
| Projects | Contact Person | Student | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon sensor testing | Su Dong | SLAC | |
| RCE readout developments | SLAC/CERN | ||
b-tagging: studying RNN | Michael Kagan | CERN | |
| b-tagging: studying RNN based double b-tagging | Michael Kagan | CERN | |
| tau tagging with 3D imaging and deep neural networks | Michael Kagan | CERN | |
| Boosted H(->bb)+j: studying signal selection and impact of new physics | Michael Kagan | CERN | |
| hh->4b: study using ML algorithms for selection | Michael Kagan | CERN | |
| Boosted hh->4b study for high luminosity LHC | Michael Kagan | CERN | |
Quark/gluon tagging using deep convolutional neural networks | Francesco Rubbo, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Forward pileup jet suppression using deep convolutional neural networks | Francesco Rubbo, Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
New algorithms for primary vertex selection and reconstruction at high luminosity: addressing the challenge of vertex merging using new techniques and a timing detector | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
| Double b-tagging reconstruction algorithms | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Pileup jet suppression algorithms for the calorimeter phase 2 upgrade | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Exploring the use of calorimeter timing information to improve the jet energy resolution | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
| Track-based pileup suppression in the forward region | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Neural network anti-kt jet finding for the phase 2 trigger upgrade | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Improving the jet energy scale calibration using machine learning techniques | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Implementation and study of a new technique for jet pileup mitigation at very high luminosity ("shrinking cone" algorithm) | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
Study of vertex pointing in Higgs to gamma gamma events at high luminosity | Ariel Schwartzman | SLAC | |
| Search for New Physics in “untriggerable” final states at ATLAS | Francesco Rubbo | SLAC |
Summer 2016 Rotation Project Proposals
| Projects | Contact Person | Student | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon sensor testing | Su Dong | SLAC | |
| Pileup photon identification and rejection | F. Rubbo, A. Schwartzman | ||
Quark/gluon tagging using deep neural networks | F. Rubbo, A. Schwartzman | ||
| Double-photon tagging for New Physics searches | F. Rubbo, A. Schwartzman | ||
| Development of novel timing algorithms for pileup jet suppression | F. Rubbo, A. Schwartzman | Randy White | CERN |
| Leveraging pileup as a zero bias trigger for New Physics searches | B. Nachman, F. Rubbo | SLAC | |
| Geant4 simulation study of intrinsic limitation in calorimeter | Andrea Dotti, Charlie Young | SLAC | |
| Rapidity gap measurements for Higgs physics | F. Rubbo | SLAC |
Summer 2014 Rotation Project Proposals
Projects | Contact person | Student | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuzzy logic, information theory, and entropy for LHC physics event reconstructionjets | Ariel Schwartzman, Ben Nachman |
| Conrad Stansbury | SLAC/CERN |
Jet tree-structure analysis for W boson tagging | Ariel Schwartzman, Ben Nachman |
| Matt Solt | SLAC/CERN |
| Jet-image reconstruction and tagging in ATLAS | Ariel Schwartzman, Michael Kagan | SLAC/CERN | ||
Search for supersymmetric particles in high jet multiplicity events using new jet substructure observables | Ariel Schwartzman, Max Swiatlowski | SLAC | ||
| Subjet reconstruction and performance in ATLAS | Ariel Schwartzman, Ben Nachman | SLAC | ||
| Investigation of new jet algorithms for the high luminosity LHC upgrade | Ariel Schwartzman, Pascal Nef | SLAC | ||
| Topological vertex finding | Ariel Schwartzman, Qi Zeng | SLAC | ||
| Pileup mitigation with event combing | Ariel Schwartzman, Pascal Nef | Kareem Hegazy | SLAC | |
| Particle level pileup suppression with JVF filtering | Ariel Schwartzman, Pascal Nef | Marc Robbins | SLAC | |
| Optimization of pileup corrections | Ariel Schwartzman, Pascal Nef | Todd MacDonald | SLAC | |
| Identification of merged primary vertices in high pile-up environment | Ariel Schwartzman, Giacinto Piacquadio | SLAC/CERN | ||
| Optimization of WH to lnbb analysis at 14 TeV, optimization of top background rejection using jet substructure obs. | Giacinto Piacquadio | CERN | ||
| Develop statistical technique not to profile specific uncertainties in profile likelihood fit | Giacinto Piacquadio | CERN | ||
| Optimization of secondary/tertiary vertex finders for b-tagging after IBL insertion | Giacinto Piacquadio | CERN | ||
| Use of Deep Neural Network techniques to enhance cluster reconstruction | Michael Kagan, Giacinto Piacquadio | CERN | ||
| NLO generator studies to understand W+jet (+bb) production as background for Higgs to bb searches | Giacinto Piacquadio | Matt Solt | CERN | |
| b-tagging calibration in boosted topologies using gluon>bb jets | Ariel Schwartzman, Qi Zeng, Michael Kagan | Zihao Jiang | SLAC/CERN | |
| Giacinto Piacquadio, Katie Malone, Su Dong | Scott Reid | CERN/SLAC | ||
| Muon CSC Readout with RCE/ATCA | Su Dong | Kareem Hegazy | SLAC | |
| Pixel/IBL detector commissioning tests and readout development | Martin Kocian, Michael Kagan | Zihao Jiang, Matt Solt | CERN | |
| Cooling Project for a Possible High-Eta Muon Detector | Charlie Young, Marco Oriunno | Leonardo Pirozzi | SLAC | |
| Pixel sensor test beam and analysis | Philippe Grenier | SLAC | ||
| Standalone Geant4 Simulation for High-Eta Muon Detection with Iron-Core Toroids | Charlie Young, Tatsumi Koi | SLAC/CERN |
Summer 2013 Projects (was proposed and assigned not using this page)
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