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  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

P. Wittich is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Their primary focus lies in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, with additional work in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiation.

Their research covers several major topics including Particle Detector Development and Performance, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, and Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers. They are also involved in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Superconducting Materials and Applications, Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies, and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research.

Wittich has published in multiple reputable venues, with frequent contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Instrumentation, and EPJ Web of Conferences. Other venues include Manuelle Medizin and Journal of Physics Conference Series.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Wittich include:

  • ESSOMM European core curriculum and principles of manual medicine, 2022, Manuelle Medizin
  • FPGA-based tracking for the CMS Level-1 trigger using the tracklet algorithm, 2020, Journal of Instrumentation
  • Reconstruction of Charged Particle Tracks in Realistic Detector Geometry Using a Vectorized and Parallelized Kalman Filter Algorithm, 2020, EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Speeding up the CMS track reconstruction with a parallelized and vectorized Kalman-filter-based algorithm during the LHC Run 3, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Generalizing mkFit and its Application to HL-LHC, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Wittich has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • P. Elmer
  • M. Tadel
  • V. Krutelyov
  • E. Vourliotis
  • Bei Wang

Throughout their career, Wittich has been recognized with awards including being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

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

  • Direct evidence for neutrino flavor transformation from neutral current interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

    Q. R. Ahmad;R. C. Allen;T. C. Andersen;J. D.Anglin

  • 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

  • Measurement of the rate of ve + d → p + p + e- interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the sudbury neutrino observatory

    Q. R. Ahmad;R. C. Allen;T. C. Andersen;J. D. Anglin

  • 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

  • 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

  • Measurement of the J/ψ meson and b-hadron production cross sections in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1960 GeV

    D. Acosta;J. Adelman;T. Affolder;T. Akimoto

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

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

  • Measurement of Day and Night Neutrino Energy Spectra at SNO and Constraints on Neutrino Mixing Parameters

    Q. R. Ahmad;R. C. Allen;T. C. Andersen;J. D. Anglin

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
R. Erbacher
R. Erbacher University of California, Davis
E. Halkiadakis
E. Halkiadakis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Petar Maksimovic
Petar Maksimovic Johns Hopkins University
Andrey Korytov
Andrey Korytov University of Florida
Joe Incandela
Joe Incandela University of California, Santa Barbara
Guenakh Mitselmakher
Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida
S. Somalwar
S. Somalwar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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