Assistant Professors
ZHANG Zhicai
Assistant Professor

Ph.D.

Email: zhicaizhang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Website: https://zhicaiz.web.cern.ch/

Educational Background

• 2015.09 – 2021.01:  Caltech,Ph.D. in physics

• 2011.08 – 2015.07:  Tsinghua University,B.E. in engineering physics


Work Experience

• 2024.02-current: Tsinghua University, Assistant Professor

• 2021.02-2024.01: LBNL, Chamberlain Fellow


Research Field

Experimental high-energy physics research, with primary research interests including:

• Searching for new physics in collider experiments and neutrino experiments, such as the search for right-handed neutrinos, etc.

• Research on precision timing detectors with picosecond-level resolution, including the design of front-end readout chips.


Academic Achievements

Full list of publication can be seen at https://inspirehep.net/authors/1393624, some selected publications are:

1. CMS Collaboration. "Search for nonresonant pair production of highly energetic Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks." Physical Review Letters 131, 041803 (2023). arXiv:2205.06667.

2. C. Haber, T. Heim, S. Kelly, K. Krizka, Z. Zhang. "Production and Testing of the Powerboard for ATLAS ITk Strip Barrel Modules." JINST 18 C01043 (2023).

3. CMS Collaboration. "Observation of the production of three massive gauge bosons at √s = 13 TeV." Physical Review Letters 125, 151802 (2020) (editors' suggestion, featured in physics). arXiv:2006.11191.

4. CMS Collaboration. "Search for long-lived particles using delayed photons with proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV." Physical Review D 100, 112003 (2019). arXiv:1909.06166.

5. Daya Bay Collaboration. "Search for a time-varying electron antineutrino signal at Daya Bay." Physical Review D 98, 092013 (2018). arXiv:1809.04660.

6. Z. Zhang. "Performance of the CMS precision electromagnetic calorimeter at LHC Run II and prospects for High-Luminosity LHC." JINST 13 C04013 (2018).

7. CMS Collaboration. "Search for supersymmetry with Higgs boson to diphoton decays using the razor variables at √s = 13 TeV." Physics Letters B 779 (2018): 166-190. arXiv:1709.00384.

8. A. Bornheim, C. Pena, M. Spiropulu, S. Xie, Z. Zhang. "Pecision timing detectors with cadmium-telluride sensor." NIM-A 867 (2017): 32-39.


Award honors

• 2021, Universities Research Association Thesis Award

• 2015, Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award


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