High Energy Physics

As many physicists have said, the current Standard Model (SM) works very well to describe most elementary particle physics phenomena in the world and is seen as a very successful model.

However, we know that it only describes a limited section of our universe, and we are eager to learn about physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). To reach this goal, we need to build a new model on top of the Standard Model, find interpretations for phenomena that SM physics can't explain, and explore the physics that's not in SM physics. There are many theories that try to explain the BSM, such as the Higgs boson (the latest verified SM physics), supersymmetry, dark matter, etc.

Experimental

In the current era, we are using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to explore the BSM. The LHC is a particle accelerator that uses protons to collide with each other at very high energy. It has already found many new particles, like the Higgs boson (the latest verified SM particle), and given us a lot of information that we can use to check the SM and learn more about the BSM.

What I've done is analyze the data from the LHC. I've worked on analyzing heavy ion collisions and exploring the physics of the quark-gluon plasma. Besides that, I would also love to work on using Machine Learning to analyze the collider data, such as for signal selection and event classification. There are a lot of possibilities in this area, and I'm very excited to explore them, with the upgrade on HL/HE-LHC and the proposed ILC, CEPC, and FCC.

Theoretical

The final sector of SM was tested with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. But there are still many problems for us to explain, and we are looking forward to finding them. That includes the dark sector, baryon asymmetries, quantum gravity, etc.

My current thesis research is about the precision calculation of higher-order electroweak corrections. The asymmetries in parity-violating electron scattering (PVES) would lead to discussions in BSM physics. To reach that goal, we need to calculate the higher-order corrections of PVES left-right asymmetries here: next-leading order and next-to-next-leading order (NLO and NNLO). With the NLO and NNLO corrections, the high precision asymmetry could provide us with a very competitive probe for many new physics.