Sercan Sen

Member of CERN/CMS Experiment


Hacettepe University,

Physics Engineering Department,

06800 Beytepe, Ankara / Turkey

Research Areas

  1. •Soft QCD, diffractive processes and the underlying event in pp collisions

  2. •Monte Carlo event generator validation and tuning for the LHC

  3. •Maintenance and running of the hadron calorimeters and forward instrumentations of LHC experiments


Professional Experience

  1. •Convener, CMS HCAL Calibrations and Conditions group, 2022 - 2023.

  2. •Convener, CMS Physics Comparisons and Generator Tunes group, 2017 - 2020.

  3. •Asst. Prof. Hacettepe University, Physics Engineering Department, 2015 - Present.

  4. •Affiliated Scientist, University of Iowa, Department of Physics & Astronomy, 2015 - Present.

  5. •Member of CERN CMS Experiment (based at CERN 2008 - 2015), 2008 - Present.

  6. •LPCC Visitor, CERN Theory Division, Sep - Dec 2012.

  7. •Marie Curie Research Training (MCnet) studentship, University College London, Physics Department HEP group, Aug - Dec 2010.


Selected Publications and Proceedings

Complete list of publications can be obtained from INSPIRE.

  1. •CMS PYTHIA 8 colour reconnection tunes based on underlying-event data, Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 587.

  2. •Electroweak Stability and Discovery Luminosities for New Physics, Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 1188 (2020).

  3. •Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at √s=13 TeV, JHEP 07 (2018) 161.

  4. •Large Rapidity Gap Method to Select Soft Diffraction Dissociation at the LHC, Advances in High Energy Physics, 5082847 (2016).

  5. •Measurement of diffractive dissociation cross sections in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV, Phys. Rev. D 92, 012003 (2015),
    Featured in Fermilab Today: ‘Fractured protons’, April 24, 2015.

  6. •LHC Forward Physics, J.Phys. G43 (2016) 110201.

  7. •Measurement of energy flow at large pseudorapidities in pp collisions at √s=0.9 and 7 TeV, JHEP 11 (2011) 148,
    Featured in Fermilab Today: ‘Peering deeper into the proton’, February 17, 2012.

  8. •Test of CMS hadron forward calorimeter upgrade readout box prototype, JINST 7:P10015 (2012).

  9. •Study of CMS HF Candidate PMTs with Cherenkov Light in Electron Showers, JINST 5:P06002 (2010).

  10. •Recent CMS results on inelastic cross section measurements, Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 12 (2019) 4, 753-758.

  11. •Forward Physics at CMS, EPJ Web of Conferences 182, 02116 (2018).

  12. •Diffractive and Parton Processes with Forward Detectors at the LHC, Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 282-284 (2017) 15-19.

  13. •Results from combined CMS-TOTEM data, PoS(DIS2016)201.

  14. •Low-x results from CMS, CMS CR 2016/270.

  15. •Forward Physics Results from ATLAS and CMS, Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 245 (2013) 132-136.

  16. •Measurement of the energy flow in a large η range and forward jets at LHC at √s = 0.9 TeV, 2.36 TeV and 7 TeV, PoS(DIS2010)138.

  17. •Commissioning of the CMS zero degree calorimeter using LHC beam, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 293 012040, (2010).

  18. •Summary of the Workshop on Multi-parton interactions (MPI@LHC 2012), arXiv:1306.5413 [hep-ph] (2013).


Selected Talks

  1. •Extraction and validation of CMS PYTHIA 8 colour reconnection tunes QCD22: 25th International Conference in QCD, July 2022, Montpellier, France.

  2. •Recent CMS results on inelastic cross section measurements Diffraction and Low-x 2018, August 2018, Reggio Calabria, Italy.

  3. •Forward Physics at CMS ICNFP2017: 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, August 2017, Kolymbari, Greece.

  4. •Measurement of the inelastic cross section at 13TeV" HSQCD2016: Hadron Structure and QCD: from Low to High Energies, July 2016, Gatchina, Russian Federation.

  5. •Low-x Results from CMS Low-x 2016: 24th Low-x Meeting, Jun 2016, Gyongyos, Hungary.

  6. •Results from combined CMS-TOTEM data DIS 2016: XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Apr 2016, DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

  7. •LHC forward analyses: MC study Forward Physics at the LHC, July 2013, Reggio Calabria, Italy.

  8. •Diffraction at CMS Forward Physics at the LHC, July 2013, Reggio Calabria, Italy.

  9. •Forward physics results from ATLAS and CMS experiments Hadron Structure 2013, July 2013, Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia.

  10. •Diffraction at CMS MPI@LHC2012, Workshop on Multi-Parton Interactions at the LHC, Dec 2012, CERN, Switzerland.

  11. •Measurement of the transverse energy flow in a large eta range and forward jets at LHC √s = 900 and 2360 GeV, XVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, April 2010, Firenze, Italy.

  12. •Performance of the CMS Zero Degree Calorimeter for PbPb and pp running (Poster), Quark Matter 2011, May 2011, Annecy, France.

  13. •Soft Diffraction Dissociation at LHC (Poster), The Sixth MCnet Annual School of Event Generator Physics and Techniques, July 2012, CERN, Switzerland.

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