Darin Acosta

Research Program & Teaching

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Bio

I am a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Rice University. My research program is in experimental particle physics, currently focused on the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider as well on future collider facilities.

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Research Projects

Recent publications

  1. A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Performance of the CMS high-level trigger during LHC Run 2”, [accepted by Journal of Instrumentation], arXiv:2410.17038 (2024)
  2. A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Development of the CMS detector for the CERN LHC Run 3”, Journal of Instrumentation, 19, P05064 (2024), arXiv:2309.05466 (2023)
  3. D. Acosta, A. Deiana, W. Ketchum, “Snowmass Topical Group Summary Report: IF04 – Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems”, arXiv:2209.03794 (2022)
  4. D. Acosta, E. Barberis, N. Hurley, W. Li, O. Miguel Colin, D. Wood, X. Zuo, “The Potential of a TeV-Scale Muon-Ion Collider”, Journal of Instrumentation, 18, P09025 (2023), arXiv:2203.06258 (2022)
  5. D. Acosta and W. Li, “A Muon-Ion Collider at BNL: the future QCD frontier and path to a new energy frontier of muon-antimuon colliders”, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research A 1027 (2022) 166334
  6. A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons”, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2021) 148
  7. A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV”, Journal of Instrumentation, 15, P10017 (2020)
  8. A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger”, CERN-LHCC-2020-004; CMS-TDR-021

Physics Lectures

  1. Introductory lectures on Einstein’s theories of relativity
  2. Introductory lectures on particle physics
  3. Colloquium slides: “Ordering Muons off the Collider Menu for Measurement & Discovery”
  4. List of physics demos for teaching at Rice

Instrumentation Lectures

  1. Overview of Trigger and Data Acquisition systems
  2. CMS Endcap Muon Trigger System Overview

Broader Activities & Outreach