Education and professional experience

• EducationPh.D in Particle Physics (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)

• Former member of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN (2011-2016)

• Perfil deseable PRODEP ante la SEP

• Cuerpo Academico y Academia de Altas Energias UNISON

Research interests:

• Forward physics (Ultraperiperal colisions, photoinduced events in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions).

• Rare production modes and decays (Photo-induced events, Higgs tHq production mode).

• Particle correlations in small systems (photon-proton, pomeron-lead ..).

• Top/Higgs properties.

• Medical Physics: Cancer research, Neural networks, thermography, flash therapy

• Luminometers:

  • performance in high pileup environment.

  • Luminosity measurements CMS-Scouting system, Drift Tubes (DT), MTD (timing detector).

  • VDM and Beam Imaging scan analysis. 

Graduated students:

• JUAN BARAJAS IBARRIA, , Master degree thesis (in progress): "Estudio de la fotoproducción exclusiva de ρ(770) en colisiones pPb ultraperiferales a 8.16 TeV"

• ANTONIO COTA RODRIGUEZ, PhD degree thesis (in progress): "Search for top quark photoproduction in proton-proton collisions at the LHC"

• MOISES DAVID LEÓN COELLO, PhD degree thesis (in progress): "Search for elliptic anisotropies in pomeron/photon-Pb interactions within ultraperipheral pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”

• JESUS ALBERTO VELAZQUEZ CORRAL, Bachellor degree thesis: "Estudio de correlaciones angulares en jets de particulas de colisiones proton-proton a 13 TeV"

• August 18th 2022, ANTONIO PAREDES SOTELO, Master degree thesis: "Development of the leptonic tHq Higgs production tagger in the diphoton decay mode”

• July 1st 2022, JUAN PEDRO BARAJAS IBARRIA, Bachellor degree thesis: "Study about the detection of the Z𝜸 Higgs production mode during the operation of the LHC"

• December 15th 2021, ANTONIO PAREDES SOTELO, Bachellor degree thesis: “Estudio acerca de la detección de acoplamientos anómalos en la producción del bosón de higgs y el top quark en el LHC”.

• August 17th 2020, MOISES DAVID LEÓN COELLO, Master degree thesis with honorific mention: “Determinación de la sensibilidad del experimento CMS para la observación futura de la fotoproducción del top quark durante la operación del LHC”, Departamento de Investigación en Física (DIFUS), Universidad de Sonora.

Recent publications:

• J. A. Murillo Quijada (contact person), Michael Murray, Quan Wang, et al “Search for elliptic azimuthal anisotropies in γp interactions within ultra-peripheral pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”, Physics Letters B (PLB), Sep 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137905

• Himal Acharya, Paul Lujan, J. A. Murillo Quijada et al. "The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: A detector for luminosity measurement at CMS using silicon pixel sensors" July 2023, The European Physical Journal C volume 83, Article number: 673 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11713-6

• P. Achenbach, J.A. Murillo Quijada et al., “The Present and Future of QCD”, QCD Town Meeting White Paper, as submitted to 2023 NSAC LRP committee on Feb. 28, 2023, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.02579

• Edward Scott, J. A. Murillo Quijada, C. Oropeza Barrera et al. “Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel at 13 TeV”, arXiv:2103.06956 [hep-ex], JHEP 07 (2021) 027, DOI:10.1007/JHEP07(2021)027, Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).

• J. A. Murillo Quijada and the CMS Collaboration, “The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Beam Radiation, Instrumentation, and Luminosity Detectors Technical Design Report”, 2021-07-01, CERN-LHCC-2021-008 CMS-TDR-023, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2759074?ln=en

• J. A. Murillo Quijada with the CMS collaboration, CMS luminosity measurement for the 2018 data-taking period at √s=13 TeV, CERN CDS, CMS-PAS-LUM-18-002 (May 2019)

• J. A. Murillo Quijada with CMS collaboration, “The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Beam Radiation, Instrumentation, and Luminosity Detectors: Conceptual Design”, CERN CDS, CERN-CMS-NOTE-2019-008

• J. A. Murillo Quijada, Contardo, Didier; Ball, Austin and the CMS Collaboration, “The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Muon Detectors”, CERN-LHCC-2017-012 ; CMS-TDR-016, (technical design report), Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0), URL: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2283189

Recent conference talks:

• Low-x 2023, Leros island, Greece, Sep 3-8 2023, "Search for elliptic azimuthal anisotropies in photon-proton interactions using rapidity gaps at pPb collisions with the CMS experiment "

• 2023 CMS Heavy Ion Workshop, European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Neclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento, Italy, June 01 2023, "Photoproduction and the photon flux"

• XVIII Mexican Workshop of Particles and Fields 2022, Title: “Particle production and correlations in photoinduced and diffractive events”, Puebla, México, 21-25 November 2022

• Saturation and Diffraction at the LHC and the EIC 2022, Trento, Italy, 27 June 2022 to 1 July 2022, ECT*, "Two particle correlations in small systems".

• Quark Matter 2022 29th International Conference On Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions April 4-10 2022, Krakov, Poland, "Search for elliptic azimuthal anisotropies in photon-proton and pomeron-Pb interactions with ultraperipheral pPb collisions with the CMS experiment".

• DIS 2021 XXVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 12-16 Apr 2021, Stony Brook University, “Search for azimuthal anisotropies in γp interactions within ultra-peripheral pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”.                   

• LHCP2019: 7th Conference of Large Hadron Collider Physics, 20-25 May 2019, BUAP, Puebla (Mexico), “Recent results on collectivity and particle correlations with CMS”, City of Puebla May 2019, (May 22nd 2019).

• XXXIII Reunión Anual de la División de Partículas y Campos de la SMF, “Search for anomalous Higgs Yukawa coupling in single top quark associated Higgs production with H to gamma gamma in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV”, (May 26th 2019).

Recent Seminars:

• May 23 2023,  Seminario de Altas Energias Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico, City, "Busqueda y mediciones en colisiones ultraperifericas de protones y nucleos de plomo (pp, pPb, PbPb)"

• April 23rd 2021, Seminario en el Departamento de Investigación en Física de la Universidad de Sonora, “Search for rare processes and anomalous couplings with the CMS experiment”.

• March 9th 2021, “Search for rare processes and anomalous couplings with the CMS experiment”, Búsqueda de Nueva Física en Aceleradores y el Cosmos, Centro Internacional de Física Fundamental (CIFFU), Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla

• November 9th 2019, Seminario de Altas Energias Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico, City, “Search for rare processes and anomalous couplings with the CMS experiment”.

Outreach:

• Miembro de Comité Organizador en Evento: Masterclass en Fisica de Particulas / Experimento CMS-CERN, Marzo 22023.

• Miembro de Comité Organizador en Evento: Masterclass en Fisica de Particulas / Experimento CMS-CERN,  12 de Marzo de 2022.

• Miembro de Comité Organizador en Evento: CMS virtual visit in México, 30 de Septiembre de 2022.

• Participación en programa de Radio “A ciencia cierta” con el tema “Videoconferencia con la Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear, Laboratorio de Investigación Nuclear (CERN)”, programa transmitido por el 107.5 FM Radio Universidad. 04, Marzo de 2020 https://planeacion.unison.mx/noticias/nota.php?id=2158

• Programa de radio “La odisea cósmica” con la Dra Maria Elena Zayas y el Dr. Julio Cesar Saucedo. https://fb.watch/gvJkFJ7kLC/

• Grupo CMS Sonora, Entrevista en Radio Universidad 107.5 FM, 7 de Marzo de 2018 para hablar de evento de colaboración UNISON-CERN y grupo de altas energías

• MasterClass en fisica de particulas, https://indico.unison.mx/event/145/overview 

• Tour Virtual del CERN-CMS, https://dcen.unison.mx , https://dcen.unison.mx/tour-virtual-al-experimento-cms-del-cern/ 

• Public lecture: From the Higgs to the unknown: in search of the genetic code of our universe, by Prof. Joe Incandela, Mexican School of Particles and Fields, 2018 https://indico.nucleares.unam.mx/event/1393/