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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to particle physics, particle astrophysics, and for his coinvention of the heterotic string theory

Overview

John Perry Cumalat is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States, focusing on research primarily within the fields of physics and materials science. Their work spans several subfields, including nuclear and high energy physics, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, computational mechanics, and geophysics.

The scope of Cumalat's research concentrates on topics related to diamond and carbon-based materials, particle detector development and performance, fusion materials and technologies, ion-surface interactions and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, radiation detection and scintillator technologies, and advanced semiconductor detectors and materials.

Key recent publications by Cumalat include:

  • A Study of the Radiation Tolerance of CVD Diamond to 70 MeV Protons, Fast Neutrons and 200 MeV Pions, 2020, published in Sensors
  • Measurements of Xi(c)+ branching ratios, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Radiation tolerance of diamond detectors, 2022, Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Latest results from the RD42 collaboration on the radiation tolerance of polycrystalline diamond detectors, 2024, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

Frequent collaborators in Cumalat's research include G. Chiodini, L. Bäni, M. Artuso, M. Bartosik, and Vincenzo Bellini. This collective effort has contributed to publications appearing in diverse venues such as Sensors, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, and OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Cumalat's research contributions span a range of scientific inquiries that intersect at materials important for particle detection and radiation tolerance, indicating ongoing involvement in experimental physics and materials engineering.

Recognition of their professional contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009. Additionally, Cumalat was designated a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1992, honored specifically for contributions to particle physics, particle astrophysics, and for co-inventing the heterotic string theory.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV

    Khachatryan;AM Sirunyan;A Tumasyan;W Adam

  • Search for leptonic decays of W' bosons in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

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

  • CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance

    G. L. Bayatian;S. Chatrchyan;G. Hmayakyan;A. M. Sirunyan

  • Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;F. Ambrogi

  • Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

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

  • Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp collisions at \sqrt {s} = 7 TeV

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

  • Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jovan Milosevic
Jovan Milosevic University of Belgrade
Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles

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