“ATLAS Thesis Award 2020” for Luigi Marchese
Since July 2020, Luigi Marchese has been working in the research group of ETH professor Günther Dissertori at CERN in Geneva. There, he was awarded the “ATLAS Thesis Award 2020” for the best doctoral thesis in February 2021 alongside seven other prize winners. The Department of Physics at ETH Zurich congratulates him warmly!
Experiments at CERN
ETH Zurich conducts research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Researchers operate large particle physics experiments in order to investigate fundamental questions such as the mechanism behind electroweak symmetry breaking or the existence of new particles and forces on the TeV energy scale.
Currently, this is being pursued through leading participation in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC. Key areas of focus include the study of the Higgs boson, novel machine learning tools in data analysis, and contributions to Phase 2 upgrades. Future projects include successful completion of the CMS detector upgrades, subsequent exploitation of the high-luminosity LHC data collection phase, and contributions to laying the groundwork for the next major collider project at CERN.
Worldwide collaboration
ATLAS is one of the LHC experiments with over 5500 members from more than 180 institutions around the globe. Over 1000 of these members are doctoral students. They make important and critical contributions to all areas of the experiment while learning valuable skills for their degrees. The ATLAS Thesis Award recognizes outstanding contributions in doctoral theses each year. Luigi Marchese's PhD thesis entitled “Muon reconstruction performance and constraints on off-shell Higgs Boson production and the Higgs Boson total width with the ATLAS detector and charm production at low transverse momentum with the CDF detector”, which he completed in 2019 at the external page University of Oxford, describes various measurements that led to three publications.