Imperial College London

DrNicholasWardle

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Lecturer in Energy-Frontier Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 3419n.wardle09

 
 
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Location

 

531Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Summary

My research in High Energy Particle Physics revolves around searching for Physics beyond the Standard Model through precision measurements of the recently discovered Higgs boson. 

I have been a member of the CMS Collaboration since 2010, and have worked on measuring the properties of the Higgs boson, and searches for exotic Higgs boson decay modes including decays to Dark Matter particles.  

More recently, I have been active in the development and use of sophisticated statistical methods, including the use of machine-learning based methods, to (re-)interpret Higgs boson measurements and searches, and preserve the results for the future. 

I teach a post-graduate course on Statistics for High Energy Physicists within the Imperial HEP group

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022, Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production, Nature Physics, Vol:18, ISSN:1745-2473, Pages:1329-1334

Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022, Analysis of the CP structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV, The Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2022, ISSN:1029-8479, Pages:1-67

Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022, Search for invisible decays of the Higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s=13  TeV, Physical Review D, Vol:105, ISSN:2470-0010, Pages:1-36

Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, et al., 2022, Measurement of the inclusive and differential t(t)over-bar gamma cross sections in the dilepton channel and effective field theory interpretation in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV, The Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2022, ISSN:1029-8479, Pages:1-59

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2020, Measurements of (tt)over-barH production and the CP structure of the Yukawa interaction between the Higgs Boson and top quark in the diphoton decay channel, Physical Review Letters, Vol:125, ISSN:0031-9007, Pages:061801 – 1-061801 – 18

Abdallah W, AbdusSalam S, Ahmadov A, et al., 2020, Reinterpretation of LHC results for new physics: status and recommendations after run 2, Scipost Physics, Vol:9, ISSN:2542-4653

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2019, Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV, Physics Letters B, Vol:793, ISSN:0370-2693, Pages:520-551

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2019, Combined measurements of Higgs boson couplings in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, European Physical Journal C, Vol:79, ISSN:1434-6044

Buckley A, Citron M, Fichet S, et al., 2019, The simplified likelihood framework, The Journal of High Energy Physics, ISSN:1029-8479

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2018, Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV, The Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2018, ISSN:1029-8479

Wardle N, Lyons L, 2018, Statistical issues in searches for new phenomena in High Energy Physics, Journal of Physics G - Nuclear and Particle Physics, ISSN:0954-3899

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2018, Search for dark matter and unparticles in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV (vol 9, 106, 2017), The Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2018, ISSN:1029-8479

Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al., 2017, Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying into the four-lepton final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV, The Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2017, ISSN:1029-8479

Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, et al., 2017, Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 7, 8, and 13 TeV, The Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2017, ISSN:1029-8479

Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, et al., 2016, Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC pp collision data at √s = 7 and 8 TeV, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2016, ISSN:1126-6708

Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, et al., 2015, Combined measurement of the Higgs Boson mass in pp collisions at root s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS experiments, Physical Review Letters, Vol:114, ISSN:1079-7114

Dauncey PD, Kenzie M, Wardle N, et al., 2015, Handling uncertainties in background shapes: the discrete profiling method, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol:10, ISSN:1748-0221, Pages:P04015-P04015

Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, et al., 2014, Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties, European Physical Journal C, Vol:74, ISSN:1434-6044

Chatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, et al., 2013, Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV in pp collisions at √<i>s</i>=7 and 8 TeV, The Journal of High Energy Physics, ISSN:1029-8479

CMS Collaboration, 2012, Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, Phys. Lett. B

Software

Wardle N, 2017, CombinedLimit

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