Mark C. Kruse

About

Professor Mark C. Kruse is a researcher involved in high energy particle physics, with a focus on experimental searches for new phenomena at the ATLAS detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider. His work includes searching for top-philic resonances, low-mass fermiophobic charged Higgs bosons, and Z/Z' decays to multiple photons, among other topics. Throughout his career, he has mentored numerous graduate and undergraduate students at Duke University, guiding theses on topics such as top quark production, Higgs boson decays, and particle search techniques, reflecting his active engagement in experimental particle physics research. His mentorship extends to postdoctoral researchers and faculty, with a history of advising students who have gone on to positions at Yale, Wisconsin, Beijing University, and other institutions. His research contributions are characterized by a focus on analyzing data from the ATLAS experiment to explore fundamental questions about particle interactions and potential new particles, contributing to the broader understanding of high energy physics.

Research topics

• Nuclear physics
• Physics
• Particle physics
• Astrophysics
• Mathematics
• Optics

Selected publications

• Combined measurements of Higgs boson production and decay using up to <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mn>80</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>fb</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math> of proton-proton collision data at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:math> collected with the ATLAS experiment

  Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2020 · 476 citations

  Combined measurements of Higgs boson production and decay using up to 80

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• Performance of electron and photon triggers in ATLAS during LHC Run 2

  The European Physical Journal C · 2020 · 290 citations

  Abstract Electron and photon triggers covering transverse energies from 5 $$\text {GeV }$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>GeV</mml:mtext><mml:mspace/></mml:mrow></mml:math> to several $$\text {TeV }$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>TeV</mml:mtext><mml:mspace/></mml:mrow></mml:math> are essential for the ATLAS experiment to record signals for a wide variety of physics: from Standard Model processes to se…

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• Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2

  Journal of Instrumentation · 2020 · 242 citations

  The performance of the ATLAS muon trigger system is evaluated with proton-proton ( ) and heavy-ion (HI) collision data collected in Run 2 during 2015-2018 at the Large Hadron Collider. It is primarily evaluated using events containing a pair of muons from the decay of Z bosons to cover the intermediate momentum range between 26 GeV and 100 GeV. Overall, the efficiency of the single-muon triggers is about 68% in the barrel region and 85% in the endcap region. The T range for efficiency determinat…

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• Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  Journal of High Energy Physics · 2020 · 158 citations

  A bstract A search for new resonances decaying into a pair of jets is reported using the dataset of proton-proton collisions recorded at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math> = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb − 1 . The distribution of the invariant mass of the two leading jets is examined for local excess…

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• Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:math> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math> collisions with the ATLAS detector

  Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2020 · 89 citations

  A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell W and Z bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of ffiffi ffi s p 13 TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb -1 . A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw rec…

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Frequent coauthors

• L. Li

  1880 shared

• T. Beau

  Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

  1852 shared

• S. De Cecco

  Radboud University Nijmegen

  1763 shared

• J. Ocariz

  Université Paris Cité

  1705 shared

• B. Trocmé

  Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie

  1677 shared

• L. Roos

  Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies

  1666 shared

• S. Trincaz-Duvoid

  Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies

  1665 shared

• M. Ridel

  Université Paris Cité

  1662 shared

Labs

• Mark C. Kruse LabPI

Awards & honors

• Duke Physicists Share Prize for Discovery of the Top Quark

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