The research team of Assoc. Prof. Niki Saoulidou of the Physics Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece, played a leading role, collaborating with research teams from around the globe, in a powerful new physics search of the CMS experiment at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Prof. Saoulidou worked on this
together with her two PhD students, Magda Diamantopoulou and Dimitris Karasavvas, supported with a Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) research grant. The CMS collaboration highlights this analysis [1] which is currently presented at one of the major international conferences of the field (EPS 2019) [2] both in talks, and in dedicated Poster at EPS by the two NKUA PhD students [3]. The two young PhD students that played a key and critical role for these results are also featured here [4].
[1] https://www.facebook.com/CMSexperiment/posts/10157288141498433
[1] http://cms.cern/news/new-ways-approach-most-classical-search-new-particles
[2] http://eps-hep2019.eu/
[3] https://indico.cern.ch/event/577856/contributions/3422439/
[3] https://indico.cern.ch/event/577856/contributions/3422448/
[4] https://www.instagram.com/stories/cmsexperiment
Prof. Saoulidou will present these results in a CERN-wide Seminar at the 23rd of July.
The following members from Prof. Saoulidou’s research team from NKUA have also contributed to this analysis, Dr. Eirini Tziaferi kai MSc student Ilias Zisopoulos.
Starting September of 2019, Assoc. Prof. Niki Saoulidou officially undertakes the position of the Physics Co-Convener of one of the largest new physics search groups in the CMS experiment, the EXOTICA, in the context of which this analysis was conducted. The CMS experiment is one of two major general purpose experiments at CERN's LHC and has as members about 3,000 researchers from around the world.