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
- Awardee in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics that has been awarded to CMS and the other LHC collaborations
News
- Virtual tour of the CMS control room and underground cavern
- We hosted the 2025 US CMS Annual Collaboration Meeting on campus May 21-23, 2025!
- CMS wins 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, with many Rice physicists listed.
- 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, 2023, 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