I am a first-year PhD student in the ATLAS group, working with Prof Chris Hays. I have graduated from the University of Oxford with an integrated master's in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics in 2023.
As a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN, my work mainly focuses on precision Standard Model (SM) measurements. In particular, I am interested in measuring the mass of the W boson which is a crucial parameter of SM. Such measurements provide an important test for electroweak theory predictions and have shown good agreement until 2022 when the CDF collaboration announced a measurement of the W boson mass that significantly deviated from SM expectation. Such a deviation, if confirmed by multiple measurements, would mean the interference of new physics, beyond what is theorised by SM.