Research Overview

I work within the BSL group of ATLAS, with particular interest in B -> J/psi X decays. These decays are use to search for new physics (B_s → J/psi phi, B_s → J/psi K⁺K^-), and provide detector performance studies (B⁺ → J/psi K⁺). I contribute to these analyses through the development of complex multi-dimensional fits and study the effects of miss-reconstructed physics background processes.Additional I am involved in performance studies of the primary vertexing toolchain in ATLAS, TIDE, and development of novel seeding strategies for vertex fitting in high pile-up environments.