Lizardo Valencia Palomo

Dr. Lizardo Valencia Palomo

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Associate Professor at the Physics Research Department of the Universidad de Sonora.

Research topics: CMS experiment at the LHC, high energy heavy ion collisions,

Quark Gluon Plasma, heavy quark production, collectivity in small systems and luminosity measurements.

 

Education and professional experience

  • Bachelor′ s degree: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2002 - 2007
    Thesis: Implementation of the final geometry of the V0A detector for the ALICE experiment in AliRoot.
    Thesis advisor: Andrés Sandoval Espinosa.
    Defence: February 19th, 2008.

  • Master′ s degree: Instituto de Física UNAM, 2008 - 2010
    Thesis: Identification of φ 0 (1020), ω 0 (782) and ρ 0 (770) resonances in simulated data of protonproton collisions at 900 GeV in the ALICE experiment.
    Thesis advisor: Andrés Sandoval Espinosa.
    Defence: June 21st, 2010.

  • PhD degree: Institut de Physique Nucléaire d′Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, 2010 - 2013.
    Thesis: Inclusive J/ψ production measurement in Pb-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE Muon Spectrometer.
    Thesis advisor: Bruno Espagnon.
    Defence: September 6th, 2013.

  • Postdoctoral researcher: CNRS fellow at the Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Université Blaise Pascal, 2013 - 2015.
    Research lines: open heavy flavour decay muons in proton-proton (pp) collisions at √ s = 7 TeV with the ALICE Muon Spectrometer and physics performance of the ALICE Muon Forward Tracker.

  • Associate Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias en Física y Matemáticas of the Autonomus University of Chiapas, 2015 - 2017.
    Research lines: offline and physics performance of the V0+ detector for the ALICE experiment at the LHC and high multiplicity proton-proton collisions.

 

 

Interview to UNIRADIO about Higgs Boson

Published papers

  • R. Alfaro et al., ”Front end electronics and first results of the ALICE V0 detector”, Nuc. Inst. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 626-627 (2011) 90-96.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”J/ψ suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV””, Phys.Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 072301.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Inclusive J/ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 2.76 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 718 (2012) 295.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of J/ψ suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 734 (2014) 314.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Measurement of quarkonium production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV”, Eur. Phys. Jour. C 74 (2014) 2974.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Differential studies of inclusive J/ψ and ψ(2S) production at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, Jour. of High Ener. Phys. 05 (2016) 179.

  • R. Arceo, E. Gonz´alez-Espinosa, S. Kurts, G. Leon-Soto, L. A. Lo´pez, O. Pedraza and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Elastic total cross-sections in an RSIIp escenario”, Int. Jour. of Mod. Phys. E 25 (2016) 1650084.

  • A. Ortiz Vel´asquez and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Universality of the underlying event in pp collisions”, Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 114019.

  • A. Ortiz Vel´asquez and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Probing color reconnection with underlying event observables at the LHC energies”, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 034027.

  • CMS Collaboration, ”Evidence for top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) 222001.

 

Interview to Radio Universidad 

CERN internal documentation

  • R. Arnaldi, J. Castellanos, L. Lardeux, P. Pillot, E. Scomparin, C. Suire y L. Valencia Palomo, ”J/ψ production in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 7 TeV”, ALICE-ANA-52.

  • C. Hadjidakis, L. Lardeux, P. Pillot y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Determination of the muon spectrometer tracking efficiency”, ALICE-ANA-1021.

  • R. Arnaldi, L. Bianchi, S. Chattopadhyay, M. Gagliardi, B. Paul, E. Scomparin, D. Stocco y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Inclusive J/ψ and ψ(2S) production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV”, ALICE-ANA-812.

  • R. Arnaldi, L. Lardeux, P. Pillot, C. Suire y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of J/ψ suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 7 TeV”, ALICE-ANA-1819.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Technical Design Report for the Muon Forward Tracker”, CERN-LHCC2015-001.

  • L. Valencia Palomo, ”Towards the separation of muons from charm and beauty in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the Muon Spectrometer”, ALICE-ANA-2463.

  • M. Rodríguez Cahuantzi y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Event plane resolution for higher order harmonics flow with the V0+ detector”, ALICE-ANA-4455.

  • B. Diap, G. Falmagne, I. Kucher, M. Nguyen and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Fragmentation of jets into J/ψ mesons in PbPb and pp collisions”, CMS AN-19-121.

  • R. Chudasama, F. Eble, G. Krintiras, J. Luo, P. Major, M. Nickel, R. Sosa, D. Stickland, O. Turkot and L. Valencia Palomo, ”CMS luminosity measurement using nucleus-nucleus collisions at 5.02 TeV in 2018”, CMS AN-19-159.

  • G. Falmagne, P. Gonzalez Zamora, M. Nguyen and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Identification of Bc mesons in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV” CMS AN-18-327.

 

Conference proceedings

  • L. Valencia Palomo, ”Quarkonia and heavy flavour production measurement in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC”, Proc. of Scie. (QNP 2012)156.

  • L. Valencia Palomo, ”Charmonium production measurements in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC”, Jour. of Phys.: Conf Ser 509 (2014) 012111.

  • K. Caballero, S. Estrada, C. Franco, J. Romo y L. Valencia Palomo, ”High performance computing at the Universidad Aut´onoma de Chiapas”, Jour. of Phys.: Conf. Ser. 866 (2017) 012015.

  • L. Valencia Palomo ”Quarkonium and open heavy flavour production as a function of the multiplicity in pp and p-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC”, arXiv:1703.09860v2.

  • L. Valencia Palomo ”The ALICE experiment upgrades for LHC Run 3 and beyond: contributions from mexican groups”, Jour. of Phys.: Conf. Ser. 912 (2017) 012023.

 

Interview on Radio CONACyT

Research grants

  • Repatriation

    • Project: ”High energy gamma ray studies using HAWC observatory”.

    • Period: 1/06/15 - 31/05/16.

    • Funding agency: CONACyT.

  • Sistema Nacional de Investigadores

    • Level: 1.

    • Period: 1/01/20 - 31/12/23.

    • Funding agency: CONACyT.

  • Investigación Científica Básica

    • Project: ”Heavy quark production in high multiplicity proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at the CMS experiment”.

    • Period: 9/10/2019 - 8/10/2022.

    • Funding agency: CONACyT.

Graduated students

  • Background subtraction for open heavy flavour studies in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ALICE muon spectrometer.

    • Student: Fatiha Lehas.

    • University: Université Blaise Pascal.

    • Degree: Master.

    • Date of defense: 13/06/14.

  • Prospects for open heavy flavour measurements via dimuons in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 7 TeV with the ALICE Muon Forward Tracker.

    • Student: Samir Assouabi.

    • University: Université Blaise Pascal.

    • Degree: Master.

    • Date of defense: 8/06/15.

  • Simulation of the V0+ detector for the ALICE experiment at the LHC.

    • Student: José Luis Pérez Ruiz.

    • University: Autonomus University of Chiapas.

    • Degree: Bachelor.

    • Date of defense: 30/04/18

  • Particle identification in underlying event observables.

    • Student: Josué Durán Navarro.

    • University: Autonomus University of Chiapas.

    • Degree: Master.

    • Date of defense: 4/10/19

  • Underlying event studies in proton-proton collisions at the CMS experiment.

    • Student: Gabriel Alexis Espinosa Alcaide.

    • University: Universidad de Sonora.

    • Degree: Master.

    • Date of defense: 6/11/19

  • J/ψ production in jets using proton-proton collisions at 5.02 TeV in the CMS experiment.​​​​​​

    • Student: Michelle Contreras Cossio.

    • University: Universidad de Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor.

    • Date of defense: 26/02/21

 

Radio Interview

International conferences/workshops/internships

  • Internship at CERN (July-August 2008), working on the GEANT simulation of the V0A detector.

  • Internship at Bonn University, Germany (September-October 2009), working on top quark mass measurement using b-tagging in pp collisions at the ATLAS experiment.

  • XXII International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus collisions 2011 (poster): Study of muon tracking efficiency in the ALICE forward muon spectrometer for Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV.

  • European School of High-Energy Physics 2011 (poster): J/ψ measurements in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC.

  • 6th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics 2012 (talk): Quarkonia and heavy flavour production measurement in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC.

  • 5th International Workshop on Heavy Quark Production in Heavy-IonCollisions 2012 (talk): Quarkonium production measurement in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC.

  • LHCC 2013 (poster): Quarkonium measurements in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE Muon Spectrometer.

  • 14th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 (talk): Charmonium production measurements in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC.

  • XXIV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions 2014 (poster): The Muon Forward Tracker upgrade project.

  • LHC days in Split 2014 (talk): Quarkonium production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment.

  • Sapore Gravis workshop 2014 (talk): Prospects on quarkonium and open heavy flavour measurements with the upgrade of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer.

  • European Physical Society conference on High Energy Physics 2015 (talk): Measurements of leptons from heavy flavour decays in pp, pPb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC.

  • Mexican School of Particles and Fields 2016 (talk): Heavy quark production highlights in the LHC Run I.

  • 8th International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (presentación oral): Open heavy flavours and quarkonium production as a function of the multiplicity in ALICE at the LHC.

  • VI International Workshop on Non Perturbative Aspects of Field Theories: QCD and Hadron Physics (talk): Heavy quark production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions in the LHC experiments.

  • 9th International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (talk): Scaling properties of the underlying event in high energy pp collisions.

  • 10th International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (talk): Physics of small collision systems using underlying event observables.

 

Interview on Radiombligo