Publications of UZH CMS group

The members of the CMS UZH group are authors of more than 1000 publications, through contributions to physics measurements, searches for new physics interactions and particles, building and operating detector systems, and development and implementation of event and object selection algorithms.

  The full set of publications can be found here.

The list of publications of the group where we have been primary authors: developing, completing, and defending the analysis, and writing the publications can be found in the Physics Analysis and Detector Development section. 

PhD Theses

• Probing Soft Interactions in Collider Experiments: From the Standard Model to Beyond
  Weijie Jin, 2025 (F. Canelli)

• Measurements of the Tau g-2 in Pb-Pb Collisions at the CMS Experiment and Future Improvements of the CMS Tracker
  Arash Jofrehei, 2024 (B. Kilminster)
• Search for Rare Higgs Boson Production and Beyond the Standard Model Physics with Bottom Quarks and Tau Leptons at the CMS Experiment
  Pascal Raffael Bartschi, 2024 (F. Canelli)
• Development of Precise Timing and Position Detectors Towards 4D Tracking
  Matias Senger, 2024 (B. Kilminster)
• Searches for New Physics in Top-Antitop Associated Production Processes and Mechanical Design and Thermal Performance of the CMS Inner Tracker Endcap Pixel Upgrade Sascha Liechti, 2024 (F. Canelli)
• "Measurement of the inclusive and differential cross-sections for semileptonic ttbb production with the CMS detector at CERN and studies of the readout chip for the phase 2 upgrade of the CMS pixel detector" Umberto Molinatti, 2023 (F. Canelli) 
• "A Search for Leptoquarks Coupling to τ  Leptons and Bottom Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at the CMS Experiment" Izaak Neutelings, 2022 (B. Kilminster)
• "Measurement of the Higgs-Boson Production in Association with a Top-Quark Pair in the Fully-Hadronic Final State with the CMS Experiment" Korbinian Schweiger, 2022 (F. Canelli)
• "The CMS Pixel Detector Upgrades and Novel Timing-Sensor Technology" Ricardo Del Burgo, 2022 (B. Kilminster)

• "Collider Physics Measurements in High Jet Multiplicity Final States" Vinicius Mikuni, 2021 (F. Canelli)

• "Search for New Physics in All-Hadronic Final States with the CMS Experiment" Giorgia Rauco, 2019 (F. Canelli/de Cosa) 
• Novel Multidimensional Search for Diboson Resonances in the Boosted Dijet Final State and Encoding Jet Substructure with a Deep Neural Network, Thea Aarrestad, 2019 (B. Kilminster) 
• "Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying into Two Higgs Bosons or into a Higgs Boson and a W or Z Boson in the qq ̄ (b ̄b) τ+τ− Final State with the CMS Detector", Camilla Galloni, 2018 (B. Kilminster)
• Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Top Quarks in the Fully Hadronic Final State at the CMS Experiment, D. Salerno, 2018, CMS thesis award 2019, Outstanding Ph.D. Research by Elsevier (F. Canelli)
•  Search for Dark Matter in Association with Top Quarks with the CMS Detector, D. Pinna, 2017  (F. Canelli)
• Search for Diboson Resonances with CMS and Pixel Barrel Detector Calibrations and Upgrade, J. Ngadiuba, 2017 (B. Kilminster)
• Search for the Standard Model Higgs in Tau Decays in Association with a W Boson, M. Verzetti, 2014 (V. Chiochia)
• Measurement of the Bs0 Decay widths at CMS with Bs0 -> J/psi phi
  B. Millan Mejias, 2013 (C. Amsler)
• Measurement of the Λb Polarization with pp Collisions at 7 TeV, M. Rikova, 2013 (C. Amsler)
• Study of the Associated Production of a Z Boson with b Hadrons in Proton-Proton Collisions with the CMS Experiment, C. Favaro, 2013 (V. Chiochia)
• Supersymmetry with Multijet Events at CMS: an Experimental Strategy, 
  T. Rommerskirchen, 2010 (C. Amsler)
• Study of the B_s-Meson with the first LHC Data, L. Wilke, 2009 (C. Amsler)
• Early observation of t-Quark in Single-Leptonic tbar t Decays at CMS,
  D. Tsirigkas, 2009 (C. Amsler)
• Simulation and beam test measurements of the CMS pixel detector,
  E. Alagoz, 2009 (C. Amsler)
• Design and Performances of the Silicon Pixel Detector Modules for the CMS Experiment, C. Hoermannm, 2006 (C. Amsler)
• Study of the Bs0→(J/ψ)Φ→μ+μ−K+K− Decay with the CMS Detector at LHC, K. Prokofiev, 2005 (C. Amsler)
• Performance of Radiation Hard Pixel Sensors for the CMS Experiment, Andrei Dorokhov, 2005 (C. Amsler) 
• Development of Radiation Hard Pixel Sensors for the CMS Experiment, R. Kaufmann, 2001 (C.Amsler)

Master Theses

• "Developing and testing Unfolding Algorithms", Nukulsinh Parmar, 2021 (F. Canelli)

• "Search for a narrow-width, TeV-scale Z' vector boson coupling to b quarks", Manuel Sommerhalder, 2019 (B. Kilminster)

• "Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z boson and a Higgs boson", Pascal Baertschi, 2019 (B. Kilminster)

• "Performance of the CMS phase I upgrade pixel detector", M. Gienal, Zurich 2018  (F. Canelli/L. Caminada)

• "Search for a low mass ditau resonance at CMS in 2016 data", Izaak Neutelings, 2017 (B. Kilminster)

• "Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark T' decaying to a top quark and a Z boson", G. Giannini, Zurich 2017  (F. Canelli)

Bachelor Theses

• Developments in the search for 4 top production at CMS, Fernando Moreno Fernandez, 2022 (F. Canelli)

• "Decays of the Bs0 meson at CMS", Fabian Stäger, 2019 (B. Kilminster)
• "Algorithms to identify high-energy B hadrons via their hit multiplicity increase through pixel detection layers", Manuel Sommerhalder, 2018 (B. Kilminster)
• "Optimizing the search for DM in association with top quarks at the CMS experiment", Rico Buergler, 2018 (F. Canelli)
• "Reconstruction of 𝜏 lepton pair invariant mass using an artificial neural network", Pascal Baertschi, 2018 (B. Kilminster)
• "Testing of the readout chain and data acquisition of the CMS pixel upgrade detector system", Benno Neuenschwander, 2017 (B. Kilminster)