Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Pennsylvania)

About

Research interests

I'm a particle physicist (Postdoc at UPenn) working on the LHC-ATLAS experiment. I worked on the Higgs search and measurement (in WW channel) as a PhD student at UTokyo. As a UPenn postdoc, I turned my focus to supersymmetry searches, in particular I work on the search for superpartner of the top-quark (stop). The stop is a key in the cancellation of the mass divergence of the Higgs boson at high energy scale due to the large Yukawa coupling of the top-quark. I also work on the ATLAS detector operation and upgrade, which are essential for the success of the ATLAS experiment.

Education and Employment

  • University of Pennsylvania, postdoc (2014 - present)
  • University of Tokyo, Ph.D. in physics 2014
            Thesis: "Measurement of the Higgs boson couplings using the WW to lnulnu final state" (Link)
  • University of Tokyo, M.A. in physics 2011
            Thesis: "R&D studies of Muon Polarimeter for J-PARC E06 T-Violation Experiment" (Link)

    • Awards

  • Incentive Award of the Japan Association of High Energy Physicists, (Link), 2015
  • Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan, (Japanese, English), 2016

    • Convenership and Appointment

  • ATLAS SUSY BackgroundForum convener, 10/2017 - present
  • ATLAS SUSY Stop 1L analysis coordinator, 04/2016 - present
  • ATLAS TRT dectector DAQ operation coordinator, 04/2017 - present
  • ATLAS SUSY Higgsino disappearing track analysis coordinator, 10/2017 - 01/2018
  • ATLAS SUSY Monte Carlo generation coordinator, 11/2016 - 10/2017
  • ATLAS SUSY Fake-lepton Review Forum coordinator, 05/2016 - 04/2017