Welcome to Smita Darmora GitHub Pages

Smita Darmora is a Computational Particle Physicst at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Her research focuses on new physics phenomena and develops simulation techniques using statistical tools, machine learning, and high performance computing.

Smita completed M. S. in Physics and Ph.D. in Particle Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously as a Postdoctoral fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, she has worked in the Department of Physics at the University of of Teaxs at Arlington.

Selected Publications

• Chekanov, S.; Darmora, S.; Islam, W.; Wagner, C.E.M.; Zhang, J. Model-Independent Searches for New Physics in Multi-Body Invariant Masses. Universe 2021, 7, 333. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe7090333.

• “Operation and performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter in Run 1”, Eur. Phys. J. C78 (2018) 987, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6374-z

• “Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two leptons in √ s = 13TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”, Eur. Phys. J. C77 (2017) 898, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5445-x

• “The Laser calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during the LHC run 1”, JINST 11 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/10/T10005

• “Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at √ s = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector”, JHEP 06 (2014) 124, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-019-00329-2

Teachings

PHYS 1441 General College Physics (University of Texas at Arlington).
PHYS 1443 General Technical Physics for science and engineering majors.