MAIA & the Muon Collider
I'm currently working as a part of the MAIA group to understand how best to reconstruct photons using the PandoraPFA software package and what steps we can take to optimize the process.
About
I'm a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Tennessee, as a part of their CMS group, I am working on the MAIA detector concept for a 10 TeV Muon Collider, attempting to understand how we reconstruct photons and how we can improve that process.
Research
Exotic Detector Signatures
My main physics interests at CMS relate to physics processes that produce exotic detector signatures; events that cannot be searched for using conventional analysis techniques.
High-Energy Computation
I'm interested in the future of computation in high-energy physics. JULIA presents a promising language for computational work; offering the speed of C++ with the ease of use of Python.
Selected work
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2026
Electromagnetic object reconstruction in MAIA
Fermilab LPC Physics Forum · LPC forum talk given with UTK undergraduate Jullian Watts
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2026
Understanding photon shower behavior at the MAIA detector
Fermilab Users and Affiliates Meeting · Poster presentation; won UAEC outstanding poster award
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2025
Combinatorial fake discriminatory selections for combined dE/dx and disappearing track search with the ATLAS detector
University of Oregon · Undergraduate Thesis
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2025
Ionization behavior studies for dE/dx and disappearing track signature search
APS Global Summit
News
- Gave physics forum talk to the Fermilab LHC Physics Center with UTK undergraduate Jullian Watts.
- Presented at the 2026 Fermilab Users and Affiliates Meeting and won an outstanding poster award.
- Hello world! The website exists now.