Charming Decays of the Higgs, Z, and W Bosons: Development and Deployment of a New Calibration Method for Charm Jet Identification

Spandan Mondal is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics at Brown University, working with the group led by Profs. Heintz and Barone. Within the CMS Collaboration, he serves as a convener of the flavor tagging physics group. His work focuses on developing new ML-based reconstruction and calibration methods for identifying heavy-flavor hadronic decays. Additionally, he continues to work on the search for the Higgs boson decaying into a charm quark-antiquark pair and explores other topics in Higgs physics, such as its production in the vector boson fusion and scattering modes, as well as its decay into leptonic final states. Spandan’s goal is to extend the use of novel data analysis techniques across a broad range of studies within the CMS Collaboration.