General

庄胥爱 女   高能物理研究所
Email: zhangxa@ihep.ac.cn
Telephone:  010 88236057
Address:  19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China
Postcode:  100049

Research Areas

Experimental Particle Physics

Research direction

SUSY and other new physics search in ATLAS and future colliders

Education

2001–2006 Master and Ph.D, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Beijing, China.


Experience

   
Work Experience

  • 2020.1 – present: Professor, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, China
  • 2014.10–2014.12: Visiting professor, Aix-Marseille University, Marseilles, France
  • 2012 – 2019: Project professor, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, China
  • 2009 – 2012: Research Associate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
  • 2006 – 2009:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Physics (MPI), Munich, Germany


Appointments

  • 2012 – 2022, Deputy team leader of ATLAS IHEP group, co-leading a team with around 40 people (13 staffs and around 30 postdocs and students) for ATLAS physics, detector operation and phase II pixel upgrade. 

  • 2012 – Present, SUSY group leader of ATLAS IHEP group, leading a group with 4 staffs, 2 postdocs and 3 graduate students for SUSY Searches in ATLAS. 

  • 2016.01 – 2017.12, ATLAS Collaboration Board Chair Advisory Group member. The group is intended to provide informal input from the collaboration on planning and policy matters and to serve as a sounding board for the evolution of ATLAS procedures. This group also serves as the core of the nominating committee for the election of the ATLAS spokesperson, the selection committee for the ATLAS Outstanding Awards and ATLAS Thesis Awards. 

  • 2015.04 – 2016.03, Convenor of the ’Electroweakino SUSY group’, leading a group around 100 people for electroweakino SUSY search. 

  • 2016-2018, Co-organizer of Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in 2018

Honors & Distinctions

  • 2015.11 Young top talent award of Center for Excellence in Particle Physics of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) (reward for 5 years)
  • 2014.11 Young outstanding talent of Center for Excellence in Particle Physics of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
  • 2014.10 Visiting professorship, Aix-Marseille University, Marseilles, France
  • 2007 PhD Thesis Awards of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • 2006 Excellent Thesis Award in the National doctoral Academic Forum (Physics), University of CAS


Publications

  1. Combinations of electroweakino and slepton searches, Physics Review Letter, arXiv:2402.08347, 2024
  2. ATLAS Run 2 searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles interpreted within the pMSSM, JHEP 05 (2024) 106, 2024
  3. Search for pair production of squarks or gluinos decaying via sleptons or weak bosons in final states with two same-sign or three leptons with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 02 (2024) 107, 2024
  4. Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in final states with two τ-leptons in sqrt(s) = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 05 (2024) 150, 2024
  5. Search for long-lived smuons with millimeter-scale displacement, Phys. Lett. B 846 (2023) 138172, 2023
  6. Search for electroweak SUSY in 2 same-sign or 3 lepton final states with RPV and RPC decay, JHEP 11 (2023) 150, 2023
  7. Search for direct production of electroweakinos in final states with one lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 12 (2023) 167, 2023,
  8. Prospects for chargino pair production at CEPC, CPC 46(2022)013104, 2022, 通讯作者
  9.  Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum at sqrt{s}=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 600, 2021
  10.  Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with same-sign leptons and jets using 139 fb-1 of data collected with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 06 (2020) 46, 2020
  11. Search for direct production of electroweakinos in final states with one lepton, missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying into two b-jets in (pp) collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, EPJC 80 (2020) 691, 2020
  12. Search for direct stau production in events with two hadronic τ -leptons in √ s = 13     TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 032009, 2020-02
  13. Search for direct electro-weakino and slepton production in events with at least two hadronic taus and missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 78 (2018) 154, 2018
  14. Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 78(2018)903, 2018
  15. Search for squarks and gluinos in events with an isolated lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum at √s = 13 TeV with ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017)112010, 2017
  16. Search for strongly-produced superpartners in final states with same-sign or three leptons and jets in 2015+2016 pp collisions data at √s = 13 TeV, JHEP09 (2017)084, 2017
  17. Performance of algorithms that reconstruct missing transverse momentum in √s == 8 TeV proton–proton collisions in the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 77(2017)241, 2017
  18. Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s)=8 TeV, Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 052002, 2016
  19. Search for supersymmetry at sqrt(s)= 13 TeV in final states with jets and two same-sign leptons or three leptons with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 76(2016)259, 2016
  20. Search for squarks and gluinos in events with an isolated leptons, jetsand missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 76(2016) 565, 2016
  21. Dark matter interpretations of ATLAS searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in √s = 8 TeV proton-proton collisions,, JHEP 9 (2016) 175, 2016
  22. Summary of the ATLAS experiment‘s sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM, JHEP 10 (2015) 134, 2015
  23. Searches for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s)=8 TeV, JHEP 10 (2015) 054, 2015
  24. Search for strongly produced supersymmetric particles in decays with low transverse momentum leptons at sqrt(s)=8 TeV, JHEP04(2015)116, 2015
  25. Search for direct production of charginos, neutralinos and staus in final states with at least two hadronically decaying taus and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at 8TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP10(2014)096, 2014


Research Interests

TeV physics at LHC

TeV physics in future collider

Students

已指导学生

任欢  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

程华杰  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

刘洋  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

朱宸正  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

王新 博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理(高能所/南大联合培养)

张鹏 硕士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理(高能所/南大联合培养)


现指导学生

袁家荣  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

蔡雨辰  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

梁诗怡  博士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理  

郭蕾 硕士研究生  070202-粒子物理与原子核物理(高能所/河南大学联合培养)

Postdocs

  • Da Xu, Postdoc, Postdoc, 2012 – 2014, Institute of High Energy Physics. 
  • Yu Bai Postdoc, 2012 – 2014, Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Mohamad Kassem Ayoub,Postdoc, 2017 – 2020,Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Huajie Cheng, Postdoc, 2018-2020, Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Yang Liu, Postdoc, 2020-2022, Nanjing University/Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Minlin Wu, Postdoc, 2024-2026, SYSU/Institute of High Energy Physics.


Graduate students

  • Huan Ren, Ph.D student, 2011 – 2017, Institute of High Energy Physics. 
  • Huajie Cheng, Ph.D student, 2013 – 2018, Institute of High Energy Physics. 
  • Yang Liu, Ph.D student, 2015 – 2020,  Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Chenzheng Zhu, Ph.D student, 2016 – 2021, Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Peng Zhang, Master student, 2014 – 2017, Nanjing University
  • Xin Wang, Ph.D student, 2018 – 2023, Nanjing University
  • Yuchen Cai, Master and Ph.D student, 2019-2024, Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Shiyi Liang, Master and Ph.D student, 2020-2025, Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Jiarong Yuan, Ph.D student, 2021-2026, Institute of High Energy Physics.
  • Lei Guo, Master student, 2021 – 2024, Henan University


Grants

  • 2024–2029 Major research and development projects of the ministry of science and technology; Founding source: Ministry of science and technology (MOST), CN; Role: Co-Investigator; This funding mainly support physics analysis in ATLAS for Chinese Cluster. 

  • 2022-2027 NSFC Basic Sciences Center project; Founding source: NSFC, CN; Role: Co-Investigator; This funding mainly support physics analysis and upgrade for LHC experiments in China. 

  • 2018–2023 Major research and development projects of the ministry of science and technology; Founding source: Ministry of science and technology (MOST), CN; Role: project leader; This funding mainly support physics analysis in ATLAS for Chinese Cluster. 

  • 2018-2020 International Exchanges 2017 Cost Share (China and UK); Founding source: NSFC, CN; Role: Project manager; This funding mainly support the coorporation of direct stau search in ATLAS between China and UK. 

  • 2017–2021 NSFC key project; Founding source: NSFC, CN; Role: Co-Investigator; This funding mainly support physics analysis in ATLAS for China ATLAS IHEP-NJU-THU Cluster. 

  • 2015–2018 NSFC general project; Founding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China; Role: Project manager; This funding mainly support SUSY Searches in ATLAS for IHEP SUSY group.