Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Johns Hopkins University
- Provides an overview of the history and context of the Standard Model and experimental searches for the Higgs boson at LHC
- Describes significant advances in understanding the Higgs boson’s production and decay
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About the author
Jeffrey "Heshy" Roskes was born in July, 1993 in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has lived his entire life.
He attended Johns Hopkins University, also in Baltimore, receiving a B.S. in 2014 in Physics with University and
Departmental Honors and a second major in Mathematics. During his undergraduate career, he received the Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award in Physics, and he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Pi Sigma.
As an undergraduate, Heshy began working as a research assistant on the CMS experiment, focusing on alignment of the CMS tracker. He was awarded a Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award to travel to CERN and work on the project there.
Heshy enrolled in the physics Ph.D. program at Hopkins, continuing his work in the CMS project.
He was awarded the Donald E. Kerr Sr. and Barbara Kerr Stanley Fellowship as well as the William Gardner Fellowship. He continued his work in tracker alignment, eventually serving as convener of the CMS tracker alignment group, and developed many analyses to study and characterize the Higgs boson. Heshy authored numerous papers as a member of the CMS Collaboration and was a main author of a series of papers analyzing properties of the Higgs boson. He is an author of the JHUGen and MELA package, and in that role co-authored a Higgs Cross Section Working Group report and an independent paper. He taught several basic and advanced physics courses as a graduate student. Heshy is currently working in data science as applied to medical imaging at the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, also at Hopkins.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Boson Learned from its Context, and a Boson Learned from its End
Authors: Jeffrey Roskes
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58011-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58010-0Published: 20 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58013-1Published: 20 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58011-7Published: 19 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 130
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles