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Guenakh Mitselmakher

Guenakh Mitselmakher

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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his early measurement of the pion charge radius and for his leadership role in the design of innovative very high rate muon detectors at hadronic colliders

Overview

Guenakh Mitselmakher is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Physics and Astronomy with a particular emphasis on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geophysics, Applied Mathematics, and Radiation.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory, and Particle Detector Development and Performance.

Guenakh Mitselmakher has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • SoftwareX
  • The European Physical Journal Plus
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Selected recent papers include:

  • Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis, 2021, SoftwareX
  • Observing an intermediate-mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions, 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, 2024, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Detection of LIGO-Virgo binary black holes in the pair-instability mass gap, 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • S. Klimenko
  • M. J. Szczepańczyk
  • V. Gayathri
  • G. Vedovato
  • M. Drago

Guenakh Mitselmakher was awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2001 with a citation noting their early measurement of the pion charge radius and leadership in the design of innovative very high rate muon detectors at hadronic colliders.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    B. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A.M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Measurement of Higgs boson production and properties in the WW decay channel with leptonic final states

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties

    Vardan Khachatryan;Robin Erbacher;Camilo Andres Carrillo Montoya;Chang-Seong Moon

  • Search for dark matter and large extra dimensions in monojet events in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ and 8 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;E. Asilar

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Charged particle multiplicities in pp interactions at sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Observation of long-range, near-side angular correlations in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey Korytov
Andrey Korytov University of Florida
Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
Joe Incandela
Joe Incandela University of California, Santa Barbara
Petar Maksimovic
Petar Maksimovic Johns Hopkins University
R. Erbacher
R. Erbacher University of California, Davis
Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles
P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
E. Halkiadakis
E. Halkiadakis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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