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.

• Curriculum Vitae

News

• The 1st Workshop on the Muon-Ion Collider, Dec. 13-15, Rice University
• Advice on applying to graduate programs in physics
• Presentation on the muon-ion collider at BNL/Stony Brook virtual workshop
• Presented the muon-ion collider concept at the DIS 2022 conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (May 2022). Presentation

Research Projects

• Trigger and Data Acquisition systems
  • L1 Muon Trigger of CMS
    • Endcap Muon Track-Finder Documentation
• Muon-Ion Collider concept

Recent publications

1. A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Development of the CMS detector for the CERN LHC Run 3”, accepted by the Journal of Instrumentation, arXiv:2309.05466 (2023)
2. D. Acosta, A. Deiana, W. Ketchum, “Snowmass Topical Group Summary Report: IF04 – Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems”, arXiv:2209.03794 (2022)
3. 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)
4. 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
5. A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons”, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2021) 148
6. 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)
7. 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

Broader Activities & Outreach

• U.S. LHC Users Association
  • New student orientation to CERN
• Bonner Lab outreach activities, including QuarkNet