Research summary
Work covers the SHiP physics case at the CERN SPS and methodological developments for gravitational-wave data analysis with networks of advanced detectors. The SHiP physics-case paper described a proposed fixed-target facility at the CERN SPS targeting very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale that are inaccessible to LHC experiments, plus tau-neutrino physics, lepton-flavour-violating tau decays, and sub-GeV dark matter candidates; portals (scalar, vector, fermion, axion-like) and benchmark models were enumerated [1]. The coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline was presented as a configurable framework for detecting and reconstructing gravitational-wave transients in networks of advanced detectors, with significantly improved algorithms supporting both low-latency electromagnetic-follow-up searches and high-confidence detection across a broad source class; the analytic framework included a novel approach to gravitational-wave polarization reconstruction from the pattern of detector responses [2]. A methodological precursor introduced constraint likelihood analysis as a coherent detection-and-reconstruction approach for unknown gravitational-wave waveforms, identifying a degeneracy in which expected detector-correlation behaviour breaks down even for infinitesimally small misalignments of an aligned detector pair, and resolving the problem via constraints on the likelihood functional [3]. Source-localization properties for transient gravitational-wave sources were studied with advanced-detector networks (LIGO, Virgo, GEO) by injecting ad hoc signals into simulated detector noise and reconstructing sky coordinates, providing the fundamental localization accuracy figures relevant to multi-messenger follow-up [4]. A SoftwareX paper documented the open-source cWB pipeline release, including its time-frequency analysis with Wilson-Daubechies-Meyer wavelets and its role in detecting GW150914 in 2015 [5].
Recent publications
- A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics caseDOI
- Method for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with networks of advanced detectorsDOI
- The CDF-II detector: Technical design report
- Constraint likelihood analysis for a network of gravitational wave detectorsDOI
- The performance of the CDF luminosity monitorDOI
- A realistic approach to the standardZ peakDOI
- Localization of gravitational wave sources with networks of advanced detectorsDOI
- A wavelet method for detection of gravitational wave burstsDOI
- coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysisDOI
- The CDF Cherenkov luminosity monitorDOI
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