Gabriella Pásztor

assistant professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2000)

Habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2024)

Biography:

Experimental particle physicist.
Interest: Investigating new physics phenomena at the LHC.
Leader of MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group.

EDUCATION

MSc (diploma) in Physics (grade: excellent), Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1995
PhD in Physics (cum laude), Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1999

EMPLOYMENT

ELTE TTK, Institute of Physics, Budapest, 2015-
Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, 2019-2020
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2015-2019
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2014-2015
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008–2013
University of California, Riverside (UCR), USA, 2002–2007
CERN, Experimental Physics Division, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000–2002
KFKI RMKI, Nuclear Physics Department, Budapest, Hungary, 1995–1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CMS Experiment CERN LHC, 2015-
* Search for supersymmetric particles
* Study of diboson production and anomalous gauge boson couplings
* Luminosity Physics Object Group convener 2018-
* Standard Model Physics Analysis Group trigger coordinator, 2016-2018
* Electron / Photon Trigger Group convener, 2016-2018
* Luminosity Physics Object Group convener 2018-2020
* BRIL Upgrade coordinator 2020-2021
* BRIL deputy project manager 2021-2022
* BRIL project manager 2022-
* Management Board elected OCMS representative 2022-2024

ATLAS Experiment, CERN LHC, 2008-2015
* Higgs boson search and property measurements
* Inclusive electron and heavy flavour production cross-section measurement
* High-mass Drell-Yan lepton-pair production cross-section measurement and search for high-mass dilepton resonances
* Study of ttgamma, Wgamma, Zgamma production
* Electron / photon reconstruction
* Coordinator of electron / photon trigger activities, 2013-2015

International Linear Collider (ILC) Study, 2001-2008
* Electroweak Gauge Theories and Alternative Theories Working Group of the ECFA Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider, 2003-2008
* Sensitivity study for models with extra dimensions and lepton compositeness

CMS Experiment, CERN LHC, 2000-2008
* Design verification of the Silicon Strip Tracker electronics
* Managing Front-End hybrid – pitch adapter assembly for the Silicon Strip Tracker
* Student supervision on top quark pair production and Higgs physics studies

OPAL Experiment, CERN LEP, since 1994
* Physics Coordinator, 2004-2008
* Search for Higgs bosons, supersymmetric particles, extra dimension
* Manager of the OPAL data access and processing services

AWARDS and PRIZES

Physics Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2024
"Fizikai Szemle nívódíj", Roland Eötvös Physical Society, 2024
Lajos Jánossy Prize Roland Eötvös Physical Society, 2020

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 has crowned decades of research to complete the Standard Model and to explain how the mass of elementary particles is generated. This discovery set the stage for LHC Run 2 in 2015-2018. The increased energy (13 TeV p-p collisions) and the collected data statistics (~10 times that of Run1) opened new territories: heavier particles, rarer processes become accessible. LHC Run 3 with 13.6 TeV p-p collisions started in 2022, further increasing the physics reach. Leading the MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, I contribute to the test of the Standard Model via electroweak precision measurements and to the direct search for new physics suggested by theoretical arguments and observational hints, such as the lack of a consistent theory of quantum gravity, the naturalness problem and the existence of dark matter and dark energy. The coming years hold the promise of furthering our knowledge of the secrets of elementary particles and could bring new discoveries!

TEACHING

* Nuclear and particle physics (BSc)
* Experimental methods in particle physics 1. (MSc)
* Experimental methods in particle physics 2. (PhD)
* Complex detector systems in particle and nuclear physics (MSc)
* Selected chapters from high energy physics (MSc, PhD)
* Scientific Modelling Computer Lab, CMS Simulation Project (MSc)
* Modern Testing / Measurement Methods Lab, Nuclear spectroscopy (BSc)

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

• Publications in MTMT
• Publications in ORCID
• Publications in ResearcherID
• Publications in Scopus
• Publications in Google Scholar
• Publications in inspirehep.net
• Publications in ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
• User profile at doktori.hu

Selected publications of recent years:

1. CMS BRIL Collaboration, The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: A detector for luminosity measurement at CMS using silicon pixel sensors, CMS-DN-21-008, arXiv: 2206.08870 [physics.ins-det], accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C, 2022. {IF 2021 = 4.991} {Main author}
2. CMS Collaboration, Observation of same-sign WW production from double parton scattering in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, CMS-SMP-21-013, CERN-EP-2022-092, arXiv: 2206.02681 [hep-ex], accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett, 2022. {IF 2021 = 9.185} {Main author}
3. CMS Collaboration, Observation of electroweak W+W– pair production in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, CMS-SMP-21-001, CERN-EP-2022-038, arXiv: 2205.05711 [hep-ex], Phys. Lett. B841 (2023) 137495 {IF 2021 = 4.95} {ARC member}
4. CMS Collaboration, A.M. Sirunyan et al., (ed. by A. Dabrowski, D. Stickland, A. Auzinger, G. Pásztor, and P. Lujan, also incl. G. Pásztor as editor of chapters 2 and 5), The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Beam Radiation Instrumentation and Luminosity Detectors – Technical Design Report, CMS-TDR-023, CERN-LHCC-2021-008 , ISBN 978-92-9083-596-7, 2021. {Main author, editor, chapter editor}
5. CMS Collaboration, A. Tumasyan et al., Search for heavy resonances decaying to Z(vv)V(qq’) in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, CMS-B2G-20-008, CERN-EP-2021-158, arXiv:2109.08268 [hep-ex], Phys. Rev. D106 (2022) 012004 {IF 2021 = 5.407} {ARC member}
6. CMS Collaboration, A.M. Sirunyan et al., Precision luminosity measurement in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016 at CMS, CMS-LUM-17-003, CERN-EP-2021-033, arXiv: 2104.01927 [hep-ex], Eur. Phys. J. C81 (2021) 800 {IF = 4.590} {Main author}
7. CMS Collaboration, A.M. Sirunyan et al., Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, CMS-EGM-17-001, CERN-EP-2020-219, arXiv: 2012.06888 [hep-ex], JINST 16 (2021) P05014 {IF = 1.121} {Main author}
8. CMS Collaboration, A.M. Sirunyan et al., Search for top squark production in fully-hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, CMS-SUS-19-010, CERN-EP-2021-022, arXiv: 2103.01290 [hep-ex], Phys. Rev. D104 (2021) 052001 {IF 2021 = 5.407} {Main author}
9. CMS Collaboration, A.M. Sirunyan et al., Observation of electroweak production of Wγ with two jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, CMS-SMP-19-008, CERN-EP-2020-143, arXiv:2008.10521 [hep-ex], Phys. Lett. B811 (2020) 135988 {IF = 4.771} {ARC member}
10. The CMS Collaboration, A.M. Sirunyan et al., Evidence for electroweak production of four charged leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, CMS-SMP-20-001, CERN-EP-2020-127, arXiv:2008.07013 [hep-ex], Phys.Lett. B812 (2021) 135992 {IF = 4.95} {ARC member}
11. CMS Collaboration, Search for supersymmetry with a compressed mass spectrum in the vector boson fusion topology with 1-lepton and 0-lepton final states in proton-proton collisions at 13TeV, CMS-SUS-17-007, arXiv:1905.13059 [hep-ex], JHEP 1908 (2019) 150 {ARC member}
12. CMS Collaboration, Measurement of differential cross sections for Z boson pair production in association with jets at √s= 8 and 13 TeV, CMS-SMP-17-005, arXiv:1806.11073 [hep-ex], Phys. Lett. B 789 (2019) 19, {ARC member}