Rhys Taus

CERN

Geneva, Switzerland

I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS collaboration at CERN. My research interests are in precision measurements of the electroweak sector with the goal of testing the standard model to its limit. I worked on the CMS Run-2 measurement of the weak mixing angle, with emphasis on the development of novel forward electron objects.

In addition to physics analysis at CMS I have worked with Hadronic Calorimeter subdetector in operations and detector performance. In particular I perform detailed studies of the radiation damage and implemented an automated workflow to provide calibrations to the detector.

I am also interested in applying the research methodology of particle physics to other interesting questions.

selected publications

Measurement of the Drell–Yan forward-backward asymmetry and of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

Phys. Lett. B, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{CMS:2025agn,
  collaboration = {CMS},
  title = {{Measurement of the Drell--Yan forward-backward asymmetry and of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV}},
  doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139526},
  journal = {Phys. Lett. B},
  volume = {866},
  pages = {139526},
  year = {2025}
}

Measurements with silicon photomultipliers of dose-rate effects in the radiation damage of plastic scintillator tiles in the CMS hadron endcap calorimeter

Albert M Sirunyan and others

JINST, 2020

DOI Bib

@article{hcalraddam2018,
  collaboration = {CMS},
  author = {Sirunyan, Albert M and others},
  title = {{Measurements with silicon photomultipliers of dose-rate effects in the radiation damage of plastic scintillator tiles in the CMS hadron endcap calorimeter}},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {physics.ins-det},
  reportnumber = {CMS-PRF-18-003, CERN-EP-2019-266},
  doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/P06009},
  journal = {JINST},
  volume = {15},
  number = {06},
  pages = {P06009},
  year = {2020}
}