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I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.  My research interests revolve around particle physics.  I have researched the Higgs boson and other new particles at the Large Hadron Collider.  I now focus on finding ways to look for Dark Matter and Supersymmetry.  I enjoy designing new experiments and hardware systems for experiments.  I have worked on testing high-speed readout electronics, designing a hodoscope system for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment, and precision assembly of silicon detectors for a highly granular calorimeter.  

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aug 2018 - Now

Assistant Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University

Sept. 2013 - Aug 2018

Research Associate, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Sept. 2009 - Sept. 2013

Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University

EDUCATION

Sept. 2007 - Sept. 2013

Ph.D., Experimental Particle Physics, Johns Hopkins University

Sept. 2003 - May 2007

B.S., Physics, University of Rochester

Sept. 2003 - May 2007

B.A., Mathematics, University of Rochester

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

As a member of the CMS collaboration, I am an author on hundreds of research papers. The list below contains only those to which I have made significant contributions.

  1. “Combined search for electroweak production of winos, binos, higgsinos, and sleptons in proton-proton collisions at √s= 13 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, CMS-PAS-SUS-21-008 (2023)

  2. “Search for new physics in multijet events with at least one photon and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, CMS-PAS-SUS-21-009 (2023)

  3. “New Searches for Muonphilic Particles at Proton Beam Dump Spectrometers”, D. Forbes, et. al., submitted to Phys. Rev. D, arXiv:2212.00033 (2022)

  4. “Deep learning applications for quality control in particle detector construction”, N. Akchurin, et. al., Snowmass 2021 Whitepaper (2022), arXiv:2203.08969

  5. “Search for electroweak supersymmetry in final states containing hadronic decays of WW, WZ, or WH and missing transverse momentum”, The CMS Collaboration, accepted by Phys. Lett. B, CMS-PAS-SUS-21-002 (2021)

  6. “Search for heavy resonances decaying to Z(νν)V(qq’) in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 1, 012004

  7. “A high efficiency photon veto for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment”, T. Äkesson, et al, JHEP 04, 003 (2020)

  8. “Letter of Interest for the Muon Missing Momentum experiment”, N. Akchurin, et al, Snowmass Letter of Interest, submission 111 (2020)

  9. “Letter of Interest for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment”, T. Äkesson, et al, Snowmass Letter of Interest, submission 104 (2020)

  10. “Search for supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum”, The CMS Collaboration, JHEP 10, 244 (2019)

  11. “Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, jets, b-jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 444 (2019)

  12. “LDMX Conceptual Design Report”, T. Äkesson, et al, white paper, arXiv:1808.05219 (2019)

  13. “Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Events with High-Momentum Higgs Bosons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV“, The CMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 241801 (2018)

  14. “M3: a new muon missing momentum experiment to probe (g-2)μ and dark matter at Fermilab”, Yoni Kahn, et al, JHEP 9, 153 (2018)

  15. “Search for supersymmetry in multijet events with missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 96, 032003 (2017)

  16. “Search for supersymmetry in the multijet and missing transverse momentum final state in pp collisions at 13 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 758 (2016) 152

  17. “Dissecting Jets and Missing Energy Searches Using n-body Extended Simplified Models”, JHEP 8 (2016) 038

  18. “Commissioning the performance of key observables used in SUSY searches with the first 13 TeV data”, CMS-DP-2015-035 (2015)

  19. “The CMS central hadron calorimeter DAQ system upgrade”, The CMS Collaboration, JINST 10, May 2015

  20. “Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous HVV couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 92, 012004 (2015)

  21. “Constraining anomalous HVV interactions at proton and lepton colliders”, Anderson, Ian et al., Phys. Rev. D 89, 035007 (2014)

  22. “Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs”, The CMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 081803 (2013)

  23. “On the spin and parity of a single-produced resonance at the LHC”, Bolognesi, Sara et al. Phys. Rev. D 86, 095031 (2012)

  24. “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”, The CMS Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 716 (2012) 30-61

  25. “Search for a Higgs boson in the decay channel H->ZZ->2l2q in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV”, The CMS Collaboration, JHEP 04 (2012) 036

  26. “Decays of the littlest Higgs ZH and the onset of strong dynamics”, John Boersma, et al., Phys. Rev. D 77, 055012 (2008)

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