Hi, I'm Cesare Cazzaniga.
High Energy Particle Physics Researcher (Research Fellow at DESY)
CMS experiment · Machine Learning · Collider Phenomenology
High Energy Particle Physics Researcher (Research Fellow at DESY)
CMS experiment · Machine Learning · Collider Phenomenology
I am a particle physicist working on searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at particle colliders, with a focus on unconventional signatures emerging from dark sectors. My work combines particle physics phenomenology, experimental data analysis within the CMS experiment (over 4000 members from around 240 institutes and universities from more than 50 countries) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and the development of advanced Machine Learning techniques to hunt for subtle signals in the vast LHC dataset. I am also contributing to studies for future particle colliders, such as the FCC-ee. Such machine offers an experimentally clean environment providing unique opportunities to probe challenging BSM scenarios, inspire novel reconstruction algorithms and informe detector design.
My research focuses on beyond-standard-model (BSM) searches at current particle colliders, such as the LHC, and future ones, such as the FCC-ee, with particular emphasis on unconventional signatures emerging from the Hidden Valley scenario. In particular, up so far, my research focused on a new set of signatures emerging from QCD-like dark sectors, and known as semi-visible jets.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Annapaola de Cosa
Thesis title: Listening to the echoes of a Hidden Valley at the LHC with the CMS experiment
Graduated with highest honours.
Joint program advisor: Prof. Dr. Günther Dissertori
Thesis supervisor: Dr. Roberto Salerno (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet)
Thesis title: Exploring the precision frontier of Higgs boson parameters at the FCC-ee
Graduated with highest honours.
Thesis supervisors: Dr. Pietro Govoni, Dr. Andrea Massironi
Thesis title: Study of W+W− vector boson scattering with the CMS detector
Co-coordination of the LHC-wide task force responsible for developing and endorsing benchmark models for strongly-interacting dark sectors used for BSM searches across the LHC collaborations.
Coordination and review of statistical interpretation and fitting procedures within the CMS exotic searches program.
Leadership of the DQM group (~15 members) responsible for monitoring and validating jet and missing transverse momentum performance.
Elected representative of PhD students, contributing to academic governance and institutional dialogue.
Here is a selected list of papers. A full list of publications, including those as a member of the CMS collaboration, can be found on Inspire HEP.
Feel free to reach out for collaborations, questions, or just to say hello.