The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb, Croatia
The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), located in Zagreb, is the largest research institution in basic and applied science in Croatia. The Department of Experimental Physics at RBI has a long tradition of research in nuclear and particle physics and since 2004 hosts a small CMS group that has grown from two initial members to seven members today. The group members started working on the central Data Acquisition software, with a focus on the software of the event filter farm on which the CMS High-Level Trigger runs. Since 2012 the group has actively contributed to the operation and reconstruction software of the CMS Silicon Pixel Tracker and is now also working towards future upgrades of this detector with the CMS Pixel community. The physics interest of the RBI group during Run 1 of the LHC has been on the study of electroweak processes and in particular of di-boson processes; the group’s members have worked actively on the CMS results on Wg, Zg and WZ production both in Run 1 and with the first Run 2 data. This work resulted also in some searches for new physics in di-boson final states. The group’s interest has now shifted to various aspects of b-tagging and the study of the Higgs boson’s decay into a pair of b quarks, with a particular interested in boosted topologies.
About The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb
From: Croatia
CMS member since: 2004