Jet Substructure Studies with the Electron Ion Collider

Lead Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Stephen Sekula

• Member of the Charm Jet EIC Group
• Generated Neutral and Charged Current Deep Inelastic Scattering Events with PYTHIA8+DELPHES
• Study of Jet Subtructure for identification of Charm and Instrinsic Strange Quark
• Contribution to future paper publications and the EIC Yellow Report
• Research work supported by the virtual NSF-REU Summer 2020 Program at UM-CERN (original program canceled due to COVID-19)

Kinematic Study of 𝑯^𝟎→𝒈𝒈→𝒃𝒃̅ 𝒃𝒃̅ and other background processes

Lead Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Stephen Sekula

• Performed a data analysis study on truth-particle simulated kinematic information from POWHEG+PYTHIA8 to study high momentum Higgs events
• Used Python programming language to analyze kinematic information and visually represented frequency distributions of variables from different Higgs processes
• Applied machine learning algorithms, using the Python library class scikit-learn, to classification of Higgs processes using kinematic information of truth-particles
• Constructed detailed report of research project on the Kinematic Study of 𝐻⁰→𝑔𝑔→𝑏𝑏̅ 𝑏𝑏̅ and other background processes that is documented as an official internal note on the CERN Document Server (Record #2676102) as an ATLAS Project
• Research project was funded by the US ATLAS SUPER Project Research Grant, the SMU Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, and the SMU Undergraduate Research Assistanceship (URA) Research Grant

UM-CERN NSF-REU Research Presentations

Presentation on work related to EIC Charm study with Dr. Stephen Sekula

Provided three separate research presentations and updates about my virtual summer research to the UM-CERN group including students and faculty

Study of Radon Plateout using ORTEC Alpha Counter in SMU LUMINA Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Jodi Cooley and Dr. Dan Jardin

• Studied the rates of radon plateout on surfaces such as copper plates that are used in Dark Matter detection projects to determine if radon interference can produce false positives for detectors
• Instrumental in codifying the framework for detailing studies using an ORTEC Alpha Counter to analyze energy detection of alpha decays from radioactive sources on surfaces
• Research project was funded by the SMU Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholars Program