Graduate students benefit from the very collaborative atmosphere in the Penn group, with advice from all the faculty and postdocs in the ATLAS group, and of course the other graduate students in the group. Graduate students have a lot of independence to choose what they study. The acknowledgements in the PhD theses give a good description of the Penn ATLAS group:)
- Six of our graduate students have won ATLAS Outstanding Thesis award, the most of any US institution! ATLAS recognizes 3-6 graduate students each year from the over 1000 graduate students in the collaboration.
- Elodie Resseguie (2019), Khilesh Mistry (2019), Kurt Brendlinger (2016), Jamie Saxon (2014), John Alison (2013), Mike Hance (2011).
- Four of our graduate students have also won the Springer thesis award, which brings together a selection of the very best PhD theses from around the world across the physical sciences.
- Elodie Resseguie (2020), Kurt Brendlinger (2018), John Alison (2015), Mike Hance (2013).
Graduate students advised by Professor Joe Kroll
- Thomas Gosart (4th year)
- Luis Felipe Gutierrez Zagazeta (6th year)
- Sicong Lu (6th year)
- Rachael Creager, Searching for Supersymmetry in boosted fully-hadronic final states with b-jets and calibrating b-jet identification using spatially matched muons at ATLAS (2020)
- Joey Reichert, Electron Identification, Electronics Upgrades, And Electroweak Supersymmetry At ATLAS (2019)
- Will DiClemente, Measurement of electroweak production of same-sign W boson pairs with ATLAS (2019)
- Rob Fletcher, A Search For New Low-Mass Diphoton Resonances At ATLAS And An Investigation Into Using Gaussian Process Regression To Model Non-Resonant Two-Photon Standard Model Backgrounds (2018)
- Kurt Brendlinger, Physics With Electrons to the ATLAS Detector (2016)
- Chris Lester, A Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association With Top Quarks in Multilepton Final States at ATLAS (2015)
- John Alison,The road to discovery: Detector alignment, electron identification, particle misidentification, WW physics, and the discovery of the Higgs Boson (2012)
Graduate students advised by Professor Elliot Lipeles
- Andie Wall (4th year)
- Avi Kahn (5th year)
- Riley Xu (6th year)
- Ben Rosser Continuing The Search For Nothing: Invisible Higgs Boson Decays And High Luminosity Upgrades At The Atlas Detector (2021)
- Christian Herwig, Targeting Natural Supersymmetry With Top Quarks (2019)
- Elodie Resseguie (NSF graduate fellowship), Electroweak Physics At The Large Hadron Collider With The ATLAS Detector: Standard Model Measurement, Supersymmetry Searches, Excesses, And Upgrade Electronics (2019)
- ATLAS Outstanding Thesis Award (2019)
- Springer Thesis Award (2020)
- William Balunas, A Search For Nothing: Dark Matter And Invisible Decays Of The Higgs Boson At The ATLAS Detector (2018)
- Rami Vanguri, Search for an Invisibly Decaying Higgs Boson Produced via Vector Boson Fusion (2015)
- Doug Schaefer (NSF graduate fellowship), Evidence for the Higgs boson in the H->WW->lnulnu decay channel (2014)
- Josh Kunkle, A Search for Dark Matter Through Invisible Decays of the Higgs Boson With the ATLAS Detector at the LHC (2013)
Graduate students advised by Professor Dylan Rankin
- Max Cohen (1st year)
- Gwen Gardner (4th year)
Graduate students advised by Professor Evelyn Thomson
- Rebecca Hicks (2nd year)
- Benji Lunday (4th year)
- Bobby McGovern (4th year)
- Lauren Osojnak (4th year, NSF graduate fellowship)
- James Heinlein Link to PhD thesis to be added (2023)
- Lucas Flores Identifying Electrons And Searching For Electroweak R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry At Atlas (2021)
- Ian Dyckes, Search for trilepton resonances from R-parity violating chargino decays in the B−L MSSM (2021)
- Leigh Schaefer, A Search For Wino Pair Production With B−L R-Parity Violating Chargino Decay To A Trilepton Resonance With The ATLAS Experiment (2019)
- Brett Jackson,A Search for B-L R-Parity-Violating Scalar Top Decays in √s = 8 TeV pp Collisions With The ATLAS Experiment (2015).
- Elizabeth Hines, Search for Weakly-Produced Supersymmetry in Same-Sign Di-Lepton Final State at √s = 8 TeV With The ATLAS Detector (2015)
- Dominick Olivito, Search for anomalous production of prompt like-sign lepton pairs at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector (2012)
Graduate students advised by Professor Brig Williams
- Joe Mullin link to PhD thesis to be added (2024)
- Khilesh Mistry, Seeing The Light (higgs): Searches And Measurements Of Higgs Boson Decays To Photons” (2019)
- Bijan Haney, The Higgs From Aμ To Zμ: Higgs Boson Cross Section Measurements Using Diphoton And Four Lepton Decays At 13 Tev (2018)
- Alex Tuna, Evidence for Decays of the Higgs Boson to Tau Leptons at ATLAS (2015)
- Jamie Saxon, Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Measurements of its Production, and a Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production (2014)
- Jon Stahlman,First Measurements of the Differential Cross Sections of Higgs Boson Production and Decay in the Four Lepton Final State (2014)
- Ryan Reece, A Search for New Physics in High-Mass Ditau Events in the ATLAS Detector (2013)
- Mike Hance, Measurement of Inclusive Isolated Prompt Photon Production at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector (2011)