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.
News
- We have just published our outreach article in the leading science communication publication, Scientia:
- D.Acosta, “At the Frontier of High Energy Physics”, https://doi.org/10.33548/SCIENTIA1117 (2024)
- 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 Upgrade Documentation, Older Documentation
- L1 Muon Trigger of CMS
- Muon-Ion Collider concept
Recent publications
- A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Performance of the CMS high-level trigger during LHC Run 2”, Journal of Instrumentation, 19, P11021 (2024), arXiv:2410.17038 (2024)
- 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)
- D. Acosta, A. Deiana, W. Ketchum, “Snowmass Topical Group Summary Report: IF04 – Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems”, arXiv:2209.03794 (2022)
- 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)
- 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
- A.M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), “Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons”, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2021) 148
- 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)
- 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
- Introductory lectures on Einstein’s theories of relativity
- Introductory lectures on particle physics
- Colloquium slides: “Ordering Muons off the Collider Menu for Measurement & Discovery”
- List of physics demos for teaching at Rice