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Alexander Lincoln Read

Professor - High Energy Physics
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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 24 Fysikkbygningen 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1048 Blindern 0316 Oslo

Academic Interests

My current research activities include: precision measurements of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN); exploring the possible link between Dark Matter and the Higgs boson; the statistical treatment of search results (e.g. the CLs prescription); and application of methods of signal processing and data analysis (e.g. Compressed sensing, Gaussian Processes, and Machine learning) to challenges in experimental particle physics.

My full list of publications in hep-inspire. 

Teaching

Higher education and employment history

  • 1977-1981 BS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • 1981-1986 PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 1986-1989 NAVF, Scientific Assistant, University of Oslo
  • 1989-1991 Scientific Associate, CERN
  • 1991-1992 NAVF Researcher, University of Oslo
  • 1993-         Professor, University of Oslo

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Cooperation

Tags: Particle physics, LHC, CERN, ATLAS, Higgs, Search statistics, HEP, HEPP

Publications

"Radiation hard 3D silicon pixel sensors for use in the ATLAS detector at the HL-LHC", A.L. Heggelund et al. (14 authors), 2022 JINST 17 P08003.

"Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector", G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], arXiv:1408.7084, Phys.Rev. D90 (2014) 11, 112015.

"ATLAS grid workload on NDGF resources: Analysis, modeling, and workload generation", Dmytro Karpenko, Roman Vitenberg, Alexander L. Read,Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 47, June 2015, Pages 31-47, ISSN 0167-739X.

"The discovery and measurements of a Higgs boson", A. L. Read, 2013 Phys. Scr. 2013 014009.

“A particle consistent with the Higgs Boson observed with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider”
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]. 10.1126/science.1232005 Science 338, 1576 (2012).

“Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”, G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], arXiv:1207.7214 [hep-ex], 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020. Phys. Lett. B 716, 1 (2012)

The ATLAS Collaboration, "Limits on the production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s) =7 TeV with the ATLAS detector", Submitted to EPJC, CERN-PH-EP-2011-076, arXiv:1106.2748v2 [hep-ex]. 

D. Cameron, A. Konstantinov, F. Ould-Saada, K. Pajchel, A. Read, B. Samset and A. Taga, The advanced resource connector for distributed LHC computing,  PoS A CAT08, 046 (2008), Proceedings Of Science.

The DELPHI Collaboration, Final results from DELPHI on the searches for SM and MSSM neutral Higgs bosons, THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C - PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 2003, Volume 32, Number 2, 145-183, doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2003-01394-x.

The LEP Collaborations and The LEP Working Group for Higgs Searches, Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at LEP, Physics Letters B, 565, 61-75, 2003, DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00614-2.

A. L. Read, Presentation of search results: the CLs technique, 2002, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 28 2693 doi: 10.1088/0954-3899/28/10/313.

A. L. Read, Modified frequentist analysis of search results (the CLs method), CERN-OPEN-2000-205, CERN, Geneva, 1st Workshop on Confidence Limits, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 17 - 18 Jan 2000, pp.81-101, http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/451614. 

S. J. Alvsvaag et al., The small angle tile calorimeter in the DELPHI experiment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 425, Issues 1-2, 1 April 1999, Pages 106-139, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(98)01401-6.

A. L. Read, Linear interpolation of histograms, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 425, Issues 1-2, 1 April 1999, Pages 357-360, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(98)01347-3.

L. Bugge et al., Absolute in situ energy calibration of luminosity calorimeters in the DELPHI experiment at LEP, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 327, Issues 2-3, 1 April 1993, Pages 296-307, doi:10.1016/0168-9002(93)90695-E. 

W. W. Ash et al., Precise Measurements of the Leptonic Branching Ratios of the Tau Lepton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 20,2118-2121, (1985), doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2118.

“A Precise Measurement of the Branching Fraction for the Decay τ →ντ π”, W. T. Ford, N. Qi, A. L. Read, J. G. Smith, T. Camporesi, I. Peruzzi, M. Piccolo and R. B. Hurst et al. 10.1103/PhysRevD.35.408, Phys. Rev. D 35, 408 (1987).

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  • Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abbott, D. C.; Abeling, K.; Abidi, S. H. & Aboulhorma, A. [Show all 2,906 contributors for this article] (2025). Erratum: Search for boosted diphoton resonances in the 10 to 70 GeV mass range using 138 fb−1 of 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). ISSN 1126-6708. 2025(12). doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2025)143. Full text in Research Archive
  • Chavez, Daniel; Read, Alexander Lincoln & Shope, David Richard (2026). Multinodal Neural Networks in the Search for Di-Higgs Decays to a $\gamma\gamma$ + Multilepton Final State with the ATLAS Experiment. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Opgård, Lars Finstad; Read, Alexander Lincoln & Shope, David Richard (2025). Anvendelse av maskinlæring på søket etter di-Higgs til γγ + multilepton med ATLAS-eksperimentet. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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