Prof. Brigitte Vachon
Prof. Brigitte Vachon
McGill University
Department of Physics
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
3600 University Street
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8.
Email: Brigitte.Vachon@McGill.ca
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Dr. R. Hulsken
Dr. R. Hulsken
(Postdoc)
ATLAS Calorimeter Electronics and Data analysis
Dr. X. Li
Dr. X. Li
(Postdoc)
ATLAS Calorimeter Electronics and Data analysis
A. Ambler
A. Ambler
(PhD)
NSERC PGS-D recipient
Search for new physics in electroweak multiboson interactions, ATLAS Calorimeter Electronics.
L. Gonzalez Escudero
L. Gonzalez Escudero
(MSc)
ATLAS Calorimeter Electronics and Data analysis
M. Au
M. Au
(MSc)
Co-supervised with J. Sankey
McCall MacBain Fellow
Ultralight Dark Matter searches
S. Rourke
S. Rourke
(MSc)
Co-supervised with J. Sankey
McCall MacBain Fellow
Ultralight Dark Matter searches
K. Brunner
K. Brunner
(Applied Physicist)
ATLAS Calorimeter Electronics
Past Members
Past Members
Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Associates and Professional Staff
Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Associates and Professional Staff
S. Staerz, Academic Associate - ATLAS Calorimeter electronics [2018-2023]
X. Cui, Electronics Engineer - ATLAS Calorimeter electronics [2018-2022] (Senior FPGA designer at MDA)
T. Kwan, Postdoctoral Fellow - ATLAS muon New Small Wheels [2018-2023] (Research Scientist Wyatt AI Inc.)
J. Bossio, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS trigger and data analysis [2018-2021] (CERN Fellow)
H. Russell, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS data analysis and trigger [2017-2020] (CERN Fellow, Faculty member and Canada Research Chair at U. of Victoria)
R. Mehdiyev, Research Associate - ATLAS muon New Small Wheels [2017]
T. Vasquez Schroeder, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS data analysis and trigger [2014-2018] (CERN Fellow, CERN Staff)
A. Robichaud-Véronneau, Research Associate - ATLAS muon New Small Wheels [2014-2017] (Data scientist at CIENA)
M. Stockton, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS trigger and data analysis [2011-2016] (CERN staff)
S. Cheatham, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS trigger and data analysis [2011-2014] (Data Science and AI Consultant)
C. Bélanger-Champagne, Research Associate - ATLAS Analysis, trigger and muon New Small Wheels [2011-2015] (Irradiation Facility Coordinator, TRIUMF)
S. Nderity, Research Assistant - ATLAS grid computing [2010-2011] (Professional Associate, McGill)
H. Guler, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS analysis and trigger [2008-2011]
M. Schram, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS analysis [2007-2011] (Staff scientist at Jefferson Lab)
A. Berndsen, Research Assistant - ATLAS grid computing [2007] (Data scientists at Genworth)
C. Santamarina Rios, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS trigger [2006-2010] (Faculty at U. de Santiago de Compostela)
C. Potter, Research Associate (co-supervised) - ATLAS analysis and trigger [2005-2010]
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
J. McGowan, PhD (FRQNT-M) - "Measurement of the production of a photon and a W boson in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS Detector" and ATLAS muon New Small Wheels [2018-2023] (Postdoctoral fellow at University of Victoria)
A. Canesse, PhD (FRQNT-PBEEE recipient, NSERC student ambassador, Institutional Winner 3MT/MT180) - "Study of W-gamma-gamma tri-boson production in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector" and ATLAS muon New Small Wheels [2017-2021] (CERN fellow)
L. Formenti, MSc (NSERC CGSM) - "Cosmic ray validation of electrode positions in small-strip thin gap chambers for the upgrade of the ATLAS detector" [2019-2021] (Online Events Coordinator at Let's Talk Science).
K. Haddad, MSc (NSERC CGSM) - "Sensitivity study of a search for a charged scalar particle in proton-proton collisions at a centre of mass energy of 14 TeV" [2016-2018] (Graduat student, Niels Bohr Institute)
A. Ambler, MSc - "Performance and optimization of analog and digital filtering algorithms for the Phase-II upgrade of the hadronic end-cap calorimeter" [2016-2018]
B. Lefebvre, PhD (NSERC-CGSM, FQRNT-M, FQRNT-D) - "Characterization studies of small-strip thin gap chambers for the ATLAS upgrade" [2012-2018] (Radiation physicist, ELI beamlines)
S. Prince, PhD (NSERC-CGSM, NSERC PDF, FQRNT-M, FQRNT-D, FQRNT PDF) - "First measurement of the associate production of a photon and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions" [2011-2018] (Project manager at Octasic)
M. Stoebe, PhD - "Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross-section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector" [2011-2016] (Head of products, TRIUMPF)
B. Chapleau, PhD (FQRNT-M, NSERC-CGSD) - "Search for top-antitop quark resonances with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider" [2008-2014] (Technical Director, MindGeek)
W. Ernst, MSc (co-supervised with F. Corriveau) - "Determining the jet energy scale and resolution of the forward calorimeters in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider" [2008-2012] (Infrastructure Technical Specialist, U. of Calgary)
M.-A. Dufour, PhD (NSERC-CGSM, NSERC-PGSD) - "Determination of the strong coupling constant from multi-jet production with teh ATLAS detector" [2006-2012] (RCMP)
P. Watson , MSc - "Performance of the jet energy calibration at ATLAS using p_T balance in Z + jets events" [2007-2010] (Medical Physicists, McGill)
G. Kertzscher, MSc - "Search for charged Higgs boson decaying to a top and bottom quark using the DZero experiment" [2005-2008] (Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus U. Hospital)
C. Bélanger-Champagne, MSc - "Study of the jet reconstruction in the DZero experiment trigger system" [2004-2006] (Irradiation Facilities Coordinator, TRIUMF)
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
P. Ma (NSERC USRA, IPP) - "Electronics development for the ATLAS liquid Argon calorimeter readout upgrade" [2023]
C. Yang - "Energy reconstruction in ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter" [2023]
K. Vyas (McGill SURA) - "Conceptual design of the use of novel quantum optomechanical accelerometers for the search of dark matter" [2023]
S. Boutros (NSERC USRA) - "Conceptual design of the use of novel quantum optomechanical accelerometers for the search of dark matter [2023]
C. Yang (PHYS-479) - "Constraints on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings from VBF W-gamma production" [2022]
B. David - "Readout development for the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter" [2022]
M.J. Rivera Valladares (McGill SURA) - "Software infrastructure development for the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter readout" [2022]
C. Yang (McGill SURA) - "Studies of electroweak gauge bosons self-interactions in high-energy proton-proton collisions" [2022]
B. David (McGill SURA) - "Readout development for the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter" [2021]
P. Deguire (NSERC USRA, IPP) - "Detector characterization and commissioning for the ATLAS experiment Phase-1 upgrade" [2021]
K. Nguyen (McGill SURA) - "Studies of electroweak gauge bosons self-interactions in high-energy proton-proton collisions" [2021]
P. Kaloyanis (NSERC USRA, IPP) - "In-situ alignment studies of sTGC detectors using cosmic-ray data" [2020]
J. Raby (NSERC USRA) - "ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter pulse shape reconstruction and analysis" [2018]
L. Formenti (NSERC USRA, IPP) - "Commissioning of chamber testing infrastructure for the ATLAS Phase-1 muon upgrade" [2018]
S. Hossain (PHYS-489) - "Background rejection study for the identification of W-gamma-gamma events in proton-proton collisions recorded using the ATLAS detector" [2018]
J. Larochelle (NSERC USRA) - "Commissioning of chamber testing infrastructure for the ATLAS Phase-1 muon upgrade" [2017]
S. Hossain (McGill SURA) - "Studies of digital filtering algorithms for the ATLAS Phase-2 liquid argon electronics upgrade" [2017]
K. Haddad - "Study of the H_5+ -> W\gamma decay in the Georgi-Machacek model" [2016]
B. Ciungu (NSERC USRA) - "Performance study of photon identification algorithms using the ATLAS experiment" [2016]
T. Tomalty (NSERC USRA) - "Studies of multiple scattering effects on spatial resolution measurements of gas detector using cosmic rays" [2015]
A.-K. Trinh (PHYS-396) - "Measurement of cosmic-ray muon absorption for simulation of the ATLAS thin gap chamber testing facility at McGill" [2014]
K. Haddad (NSERC USRA) - "Design, construction and commissioning of a large muon hodoscope for the ATLAS thin gap chamber testing facility at McGill" [2014]
C. Qin (McGill SURA) - "Development of a slow control system for the ATLAS thin gap chamber testing facility at McGill" [2014]
F. Cormier - "Characterization of the VMM1 chip for the readout of gaseous detectors" [2013]
D. Layden (NSERC USRA, IPP) - "Measurement of the cross-section of photon+jet events using the ATLAS detector" [2013]
F. Cormier (co-supervised) - "Development of a VME-based data acquisition system" [2013]
G. Magill (PHYS-396) - "Comparison of leading order and next-to-leading order simulation of multijet events" [2010]
R. Keyes - "Jet trigger efficiency studies for top quarks with high transverse momentum" [2010]
S. King (NSERC USRA) (co-supervised) - "Performance studies of the jet reconstruction in ATLAS using in-situ method" [2008]
A. Wright (PHYS-479) - "Studies of properties of high energy top quark in ATLAS" [2008]
J. Taenzer (PHYS-459) - "Development of trigger criteria for the identification of top-antitop quark events in the ATLAS detector" [2008]
A. Lepage-Jutier (NSERC USRA) - "Development of trigger criteria for the identification of top-antitop quark events in the ATLAS detector" [2007]
M.-A. Dufour (NSERC USRA) - "Development of a total energy sum trigger for the ATLAS experiment" [2006]
B. Chapleau (NSERC USRA) - "Angular correlations studies in single top quark production using the DZero experiment" [2006]
P. Vachon-Rivard (NSERC USRA) - "Software tool development for the monitoring and certification of the DZero experiment trigger" [2005]
D. Ouraoui (co-supervised) - "Jet energy flow algorithms for ATLAS" [2005]
G.-P. Bouchard (PHYS-459) - "Sensitivity studies for the search for single top quark production using the DZero experiment" [2005]
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