Andrew C Smith
Research Interest
I am an experimentalist on the ATLAS collaboration interested in searches for Long-Lived Particles predicted to exist in Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. My research exploits the timing and spatial resolution of the ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) electromagnetic calorimeter to search for displaced and delayed electrons and photons from Long-Lived decays.
My hardware efforts also focus on the LAr calorimeter. At Nevis Labs, I worked on data acquisition and analysis on a prototype slice of the Front End Board to be installed in ATLAS' High-Luminosity upgrade. While based at CERN, I helped commission LAr's Run 3 trigger upgrade as a member of the LAr Operations team. I ensured the quality of the upgraded system's first data-taking in 2022 as LAr Run Coordinator.
- Search for displaced photons produced in exotic decays of the Higgs boson using 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
- Search in diphoton and dielectron final states for displaced production of Higgs or Z bosons with the ATLAS detector in √𝒔 = 13 TeV 𝒑 𝒑 collisions
- Study of energy response and resolution of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter to hadrons of energies from 16 to 30 GeV
In my free time, I play the guitar. I have been learning to ski and play the drums.