Publications
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I have published 734 peer-reviewed articles in major international journals with 18440 citations (excluding self-citations) yielding an H-index of 60 (also excluding self-citations). The publications include 228 Physical Review Letters, 1 Science, 1 Nature Physics, 235 Physical Review D, 74 Physics Letters B. I published 12 conference proceedings and 4 reviews. One article is top-cited above 1000, one article is top-cited 500-1000, 6 articles are top-cited 250-500 and 20 articles are top-cited 100-250 (also excluding self-citations). Articles after 2000 were published mostly within BABAR and CMS collaborations.
Selected Publications
1) CMS Collaboration, "A New Boson with a Mass of 125 GeV Observed with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider" Science 338, (2012) 1569; an accessible overview of [2]
2) CMS Collaboration, Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 30-61; importance: the discovery of a new particle that looks like the long-sought Higgs boson; my role: outstanding contribution to the H → γγ decay channel-- key piece of the discovery analysis
3) CMS Collaboration, Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, Phys.Lett. B710 (2012) 26-48; importance: restricted the most likely mass region for the Higgs boson; my role: outstanding contribution to the H → γγ decay channel
4) CMS Collaboration, Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV, Phys.Lett. B710 (2012) 403-425; importance: first CMS paper on search for the Higgs boson with H → γγ decay channel; my role: implemented VBF channel and performed search with improved sensitivity;
5) CMS Collaboration, Searches for Higgs bosons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV in the context of four-generation and fermiophobic models, arXiv:1302.1764, submitted to Phys.Lett. B; importance: search for BSM Higgs bosons; test of the nature of the newly discovered Higgs-like boson in the context of either a SM4 or Fermiophobic (FP) Higgs boson; proved Yukava couplings; my role: leader of the FP analysis including publication process
6) CMS Collaboration, Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV, JHEP 1209 (2012) 111; importance: set the best world exclusion limit for the fermiophobic (FP) Higgs boson; spearheaded the coupling measurement program at CMS; my role: pioneered a number of new ideas including associated production (VH) production channels and the two-dimensional likelihood method;
7) CMS Collaboration, Measurement of the Differential Cross Section for Isolated Prompt Photon Production in pp Collisions at 7 TeV, Phys.Rev. D84 (2011) 052011; importance: precision test of perturbative QCD predictions at new energy scale; precision measurement of main background for the H → γγ search; my role: invented complementary prompt photon identification algorithms;
8) CMS Collaboration, Measurement of the Isolated Prompt Photon Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV, Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 082001; importance: test of perturbative QCD prediction at new energy scale; first measurement of the photon production cross section at LHC,- main background for the H → γγ search; my role: created and validated the photon reconstruction and identification algorithms;
9) CMS Collaboration, CMS technical design report, volume II: Physics performance, J.Phys. G34 (2007) 995-1579; importance: CMS long term physics program; my role: diboson WZ and ZZ production studies
10) S. Ganjour+11 authors, Study of di-boson production with the CMS detector at LHC, J.Phys. G34 (2007) N269-N295 importance: prospectives to probe for New Physics at LHC; my role: performed analysis for ZZ channel;
11) BABAR Collaboration, The BaBar detector, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A479 (2002) 1-116; importance: BABAR detector performance; my role: magnetic field simulation and measurements for the tracking detector and the DIRC particle identification system; K-meson identification algorithm.
12) BABAR Collaboration, Observation of a narrow meson decaying to Ds+pi0 at a mass of 2.32-GeV/c2, Phys.Rev.Lett. 90 (2003) 242001; importance: gave rise to a new research line in meson spectroscopy; my role: developed Ds±-meson reconstruction algorithm in BABAR.
13) BABAR Collaboration, Observation of CP violation in the B0 meson system,
Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 091801; importance: experimental confirmation of the CKM mechanism (Nobel Prize, 2008); my role: K-meson identification algorithm.
14) BABAR Collaboration, Measurement of D+s and D*+s production in B meson decays and from continuum e+e− annihilation at sqrt(s)=10.6 GeV, Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 091104; importance: experimental test of the factorization model; test of consistency between inclusive semi-leptonic branching fraction and charm productions; my role: primary author (part of thesis);
15) BABAR Collaboration, Measurement of B0->D(*)+sD*− branching fractions and B0->D*+sD*− polarization with a partial reconstruction technique; Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 092003; importance: experimental test of the factorization approach for two-body decays B->D(*)X, where the meson X contains a heavy quark; my role: primary author (part of thesis);
16) BABAR Collaboration, Measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries and constraints on sin(2β+γ) with partial reconstruction of B→D∗∓π± decays; Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 112003; importance: first measurement of CKM angle sin(2β+γ); established high standard of precision measurement of CP violation in B decays using a partial reconstruciton technique; my role: carried out K-meson tagging event category analysis; developed interpretaiton method of the measured CP asymmetry in terms of the CKM angle sin(2β+γ).
17) BABAR Collaboration, Measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and constraints on sin(2β+γ) with partial reconstruction of B0→D∗∓π± decays; Phys.Rev.Lett. 92 (2004) 251802; importance: world best precition measurement of CP asymmetry in the B meson system; reached about 1% precision; my role: carried out K-meson tagging event category analysis; interpretaiton of the results.
18) BABAR-DIRC Collaboration, The DIRC particle identification system for the BaBar experiment; Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A538 (2005) 281-357; importance: performance of DIRC,- principal particle identificaiton system of BABAR; my role: magnetic field simulation and measurements in the region of the DIRC photomultipliers and the nearby beam elements; K-meson identification algorithm.
19) S. Ganzhur+26 authors, Simulation and measurement of the fringe field of the 1.5-Tesla BaBar solenoid; Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A432 (1999) 24-47; importance: performance of the DIRC photomultipliers' shielding system; proved a safe operation of the DIRC system; my role: simulation of the shielding components; led the development and construction of the field mapper; invented a method of demagnetization of the shield.
20) S. Ganzhur+4 authors, Measurement of optical parameters of aerogel; Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A433 (1999) 396-400; importance: guides many R&D studies with aerogel Cherenkov counters; my role: invented a new method to measure parameters of aerogel.
Selected International Conferences and Lectures
IAS Program on The Future of High Energy Physics, 8-26 January 2018, HKUST, Hong Kong
IAS Program on The Future of High Energy Physics, 9-26 January 2017, HKUST, Hong Kong
2016 IEEE NSS/MIC, 29 October - 5 November 2016, Strasbourg, France
The 24th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2016), 3-8 July 2016, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
IAS Program on The Future of High Energy Physics, 4-29 January 2016, HKUST, Hong Kong
A topical conference on elementary particles, astrophysics, and cosmology, Miami 2015,
16-22 December 2015, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics, 4-10 October 2015,
Moscow, Russia
IAS Program on The Future of High Energy Physics, 5-30 January 2015, HKUST, Hong Kong
Rencontres du Vietnam 2014: Physics at LHC and beyond, August 10-17, 2014, ICISE Center,
Quy-Nhon, Vietnam
Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders 2014, AWLC14, May 12-16, 2014,
Fermilab, Batavia IL, USA
Particles, Strings and Cosmology, PASCOS 2013, November 20-26, 2013, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
"Prospects for Higgs Coupling Measurements at the High-Luminosity LHC with CMS"
International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders, LCWS13, November 11-15, 2013, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Higgs and Beyond 2013, June 5-9, 2013, Tohoku University, Japan
CKM 2006 workshop in Nagoya University, December 2006, Nagoya, Japan, hep-ph/0703229
ICFP2005, October, 2005, Chung-li, Taiwan
Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d’Aoste, 4-10 March 2001, La Thulile (Italy).
Recent Invited Seminars
Jan 27, 2016, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jan 16, 2013, University of Liverpool, UK
Nov 20, 2012, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan
Oct 23, 2012, Oxford University, UK
Apr 13, 2012, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Feb 16, 2012, The University of Warwick, UK
Outreach
No 471 (2012)
invited by "Up Close" broadcast from the University of Melbourne, Australia
