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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
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For leadership in CMS operations and upgrades, the Run IIb DZero detector upgrade th DZero and CMS QCD physics groups and major contributions to the CMS Data Acquisition system

Overview

Vivian O'Dell is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, contributing primarily to research in Physics and Astronomy. Their work heavily focuses on Nuclear and High Energy Physics with additional investigations in Mechanics of Materials.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Neutrino Physics Research
  • Particle Detector Development and Performance
  • Muon and positron interactions and applications

O'Dell has authored multiple recent papers addressing data acquisition and control systems specific to particle physics experiments, including:

  • Prototype Data Acquisition and Slow Control Systems for the Mu2e Experiment (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
  • Data acquisition and slow control interface for the Mu2e experiment (2021), published in Journal of Instrumentation
  • Trigger-DAQ and Slow Controls Systems in the Mu2e Experiment (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with O'Dell across these publications include A. Gioiosa, S. Donati, Eric Flumerfelt, G. A. Horton-Smith, and L. Morescalchi.

O'Dell's work has been disseminated through key venues that include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
  • Journal of Instrumentation
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

In recognition of their contributions to the field, O'Dell was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, cited for leadership roles related to CMS operations and upgrades and significant involvement with the CMS Data Acquisition system.

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

  • 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

  • The upgraded DØ detector

    V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;M. Abolins;B. S. Acharya

  • 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

  • Observation of events with a large rapidity gap in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

    M. Derrick;D. Krakauer;S. Magill;B. Musgrave

  • 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

M. R. Adams
M. R. Adams University of Illinois at Chicago
A. V. Gritsan
A. V. Gritsan Johns Hopkins University
Robert Stone
Robert Stone Oregon State University
John Perry Cumalat
John Perry Cumalat University of Colorado Boulder

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