Lailin Xu Supervisor of Doctorate CandidatesSupervisor of Master's Candidates

Administrative Position:Professor

Contact Information:0551-63607936 lailinxu@ustc.edu.cn

Degree:博士

Discipline: Physics

Research Field

Current position: USTC Lailin Xu > Scientific Research > Research Field


  • ATLAS experiments

    • Higgs boson properties measurements

    • Electroweak precision measurements (diboson and vector boson scattering)

    • Search for new physics beyond the SM (eg. Dark matter) using gauge bosons


  • Silicon detector R&D

    • Timing detectors (LGAD)

    • CMOS pixel detectors

    Selected Research Experience

    • 2019-Present Convener of Weak Boson Processes Subgroup, ATLAS Physics Modeling Group, Coordinating all aspects of Monte Carlo modelling of Single-boson and Multiboson processes in the whole ATLAS collaboration

    • 2019-Present Convener of Off-shell and Interference Subgroup, LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group}, stimulate and facilitate experimental and theoretical efforts on off-shell Higgs and signal-background interference studies at the LHC

    • 2018-2019 Coordinator of ATLAS Physics Modeling Group–Multiboson Focus Group

    • 2016-Present Co-leader of several key physics analyses in ATLAS, using multiple gauge bosons to search for new phenomena and measure the Higgs boson properties

    • 2009-Present Extensive experience on R&D of novel silicon detectors and gaseous detectors, including development of data acquisition system and characterization of detectors using testbeam

    Selected Publications

    Full list of publications at Inspire-HEP

    • ATLAS Collaboration, Search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of Z bosons in the lllland llvv final states using 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, submitted to EPJC

    • ATLAS Collaboration, Search for heavy diboson resonances in semileptonic final states in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 1165

    • ATLAS Collaboration, Search for the electroweak diboson production in association with a high-mass dijet system in semileptonic final states in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D. 100, 032007 (2019)

    • ATLAS Collaboration, Constraints on off-shell Higgs boson production and the Higgs boson total width in ZZ->4l and ZZ->2l2v final states with the ATLAS detector,Phys. Lett. B 786 (2018) 223

    • ATLAS Collaboration, Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 201802 (2014)