ATLAS celebrates its 2024 thesis award winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 ATLAS thesis awards. Every year, these awards celebrate the outstanding achievements made by PhD students working with the collaboration, recognising the significant impact of their research on physics analyses, detector advancements and software development.

“The ATLAS Thesis Awards not only recognise the dedication and excellence of our early-career researchers but also underscore the critical role they play in advancing the experiment’s scientific mission,” said Jean-François Arguin, Chair of the 2024 Thesis Awards Committee. “This year’s submissions were of an exceptional standard, reflecting the depth and breadth of research within ATLAS.”

Explore the winning theses:

• Christian Appelt (Humboldt University): Extending the limits in the hunt for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
• Ana Luisa Carvalho (Universidade de Lisboa): Measurements of Higgs boson properties in associated production with top quarks with the ATLAS detector
• Shalini Epari (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): What to expect when you are expecting new physics: searches for new phenomena in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector
• Emily Ann Smith (University of Chicago): A Global View of Jets with the ATLAS Detector: From Hardware Triggers to Precision Measurements and Beyond
• Kaito Sugizaki (University of Tokyo): Search for higgsinos with compressed mass spectra in final states with low-momentum leptons using 140 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
• Martino Tanasini (Università di Genova): The Higgs, the Beauty and the Charm: Improving Jet Flavour-Tagging and Higgs Boson Measurements with Graph Neural Networks in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
• Aric Tate (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Investigations of Initial State Effects in p+Pb Collisions via Dijet Measurement with the ATLAS Detector
• Makayla Vessella (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Do Dibosons Dream of Semileptonic Sheep? Searching for heavy Wh resonances and optimizing track reconstruction with the ATLAS detector

This year’s award ceremony took place on 20 February in CERN’s Main Auditorium. More details can be found on the ATLAS collaboration website.