Lizardo Valencia Palomo

 

DR. LIZARDO VALENCIA PALOMO

Associate Professor at the Physics Research Department of the Universidad de Sonora.

Research topics: CMS experiment at the LHC, high energy heavy ion collisions, Quark Gluon Plasma, heavy quark production, collectivity in small systems and luminosity measurements.

 

Education and professional experience

  • Bachelor′ s degree: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2002 - 2007
    Thesis: Implementation of the final geometry of the V0A detector for the ALICE experiment in AliRoot.
    Thesis advisor: Andrés Sandoval Espinosa.
    Defence: February 19th, 2008.

  • Master′ s degree: Instituto de Física UNAM, 2008 - 2010
    Thesis: Identification of φ 0 (1020), ω 0 (782) and ρ 0 (770) resonances in simulated data of protonproton collisions at 900 GeV in the ALICE experiment.
    Thesis advisor: Andrés Sandoval Espinosa.
    Defence: June 21st, 2010.

  • PhD degree: Institut de Physique Nucléaire d′Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, 2010 - 2013.
    Thesis: Inclusive J/ψ production measurement in Pb-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE Muon Spectrometer.
    Thesis advisor: Bruno Espagnon.
    Defence: September 6th, 2013.

  • Postdoctoral researcher: CNRS fellow at the Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Université Blaise Pascal, 2013 - 2015.
    Research lines: open heavy flavour decay muons in proton-proton (pp) collisions at √ s = 7 TeV with the ALICE Muon Spectrometer and physics performance of the ALICE Muon Forward Tracker.

  • Associate Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias en Física y Matemáticas of the Autonomus University of Chiapas, 2015 - 2017.
    Research lines: offline and physics performance of the V0+ detector for the ALICE experiment at the LHC and high multiplicity proton-proton collisions.

 

 

Published papers

  • R. Alfaro et al., ”Front end electronics and first results of the ALICE V0 detector”, Nuc. Inst. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 626-627 (2011) 90-96. 
    DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.10.025

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”J/ψ suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV””, Phys.Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 072301.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.072301

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Inclusive J/ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 2.76 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 718 (2012) 295.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.078

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of J/ψ suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 734 (2014) 314.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.064

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Measurement of quarkonium production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV”, Eur. Phys. Jour. C 74 (2014) 2974.
    DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2974-4

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Differential studies of inclusive J/ψ and ψ(2S) production at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, Jour. of High Ener. Phys. 05 (2016) 179.
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)179

  • R. Arceo, E. González-Espinosa, S. Kurts, G. Leon-Soto, L. A. Lo´pez, O. Pedraza and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Elastic total cross-sections in an RSIIp escenario”, Int. Jour. of Mod. Phys. E 25 (2016) 1650084.
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218301316500841

  • * A. Ortiz Velásquez and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Universality of the underlying event in pp collisions”, Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 114019.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.114019

  • A. Ortiz Velásquez and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Probing color reconnection with underlying event observables at the LHC energies”, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 034027.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.034027

  • CMS Collaboration, ”Evidence for top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) 222001.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.222001

  • CMS Collaboration, ”Fragmentation of jets containing a prompt J/ψmeson in lead-lead and proton-proton collisions at 5 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 825 (2022) 136842.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136842

  • CMS Collaboration, ”Observation of the B+c meson in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV and measurement of its nuclear modification factor” Phys. Rev. Lett. 128 (2022) 252301
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.252301

  • CMS BRIL Collaboration, ”The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: a detector for luminosity measurement at CMS usin silicon pixel sensors”, Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 673.
    DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11713-6

  • A. Ortiz Velásquez, L. Valencia Palomo y V. M. Minjares Neriz, ”Study of Transverse-Spherocity Biased pp Collisions at the LHC Energies Using the PYTHIA 8 Event Generator”, Universe 10 (2024) 30.
    DOI: 10.3390/universe10010030

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”ALICE upgrades during the LHC long shutdown 2” Aceptado por Jour. of Inst. 
    DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.01238

* Corresponding author.

 

 

CERN Internal Documentation

  • R. Arnaldi, J. Castellanos, L. Lardeux, P. Pillot, E. Scomparin, C. Suire y L. Valencia Palomo, ”J/ψ production in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, ALICE-ANA-52.

  • C. Hadjidakis, L. Lardeux, P. Pillot y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Determination of the muon spectrometer tracking efficiency”, ALICE-ANA-1021.

  • R. Arnaldi, L. Bianchi, S. Chattopadhyay, M. Gagliardi, B. Paul, E. Scomparin, D. Stocco y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Inclusive J/ψ and ψ(2S) production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV”, ALICE-ANA-812.

  • R. Arnaldi, L. Lardeux, P. Pillot, C. Suire y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of J/ψsuppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, ALICE-ANA-1819.

  • ALICE Collaboration, ”Technical Design Report for the Muon Forward Tracker”, CERN-LHCC-2015-001.

  • L. Valencia Palomo, ”Towards the separation of muons from charm and beauty in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the Muon Spectrometer”, ALICE-ANA-2463.

  • M. Rodríguez Cahuantzi y L. Valencia Palomo, ”Event plane resolution for higher order harmonics flow with the V0+ detector”, ALICE-ANA-4455.

  • B. Diap, G. Falmagne, I. Kucher, M. Nguyen and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Fragmentation of jets into J/ψ mesons in PbPb and pp collisions”, CMS AN-19-121.

  • R. Chudasama, F. Eble, G. Krintiras, J. Luo, P. Major, M. Nickel, R. Sosa, D. Stickland, O. Turkot and L. Valencia Palomo, ”CMS luminosity measurement using nucleus-nucleus collisions at 5.02 TeV in 2018”, CMS AN-19-159.

  • G. Falmagne, P. Gonzalez Zamora, M. Nguyen and L. Valencia Palomo, ”Identification of Bc mesons in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, CM AN-18327.

  • BRIL Collaboration, ”Detector performance and operational experience of the Pixel Luminosity Telescope”, CMS DN-2019/028.

 

 

Graduated Students

  • Background subtraction for open heavy flavour studies in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ALICE muon spectrometer.

    • Student: Fatiha Lehas.

    • Institution: Université Blaise Pascal (France).

    • Degree: Master's.

    • Exam: 13 June 2014.

  • Prospects for open heavy flavour measurements via dimuons in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.5 TeV with the ALICE Muon Forward Tracker.

    • Student: Samir Assouabi.

    • Institution: Université Blaise Pascal (France).

    • Degree: Master's.

    • Exam: 8 June 2015.

  • Simulación del detector V0+ para el experimento ALICE del LHC.

    • Student: José Luis Pérez Ruiz.

    • Institution: Universidad Autónoma Chiapas.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 30 April 2018

  • Estudio del underlying event asociado a jet quarks y gluones en colisiones pp a las energías del LHC.

    • Student: Josué Durán Navarro.

    • Institution: Universidad Autónoma Chiapas.

    • Degree: Master's.

    • Exam: 4 October 2019

  • Predicciones del underlying event para energías del LHC y el HE-LHC.

    • Student: Gabriel Alexis Espinosa Alcaide.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Master's.

    • Exam: 6 November 2019

  • Medida la producción J/ψ en jets usando colisiones protón-protón a 5.02 TeV en el experimento CMS LHC.

    • Student: Michelle Contreras Cossio.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 26 February 2021

  • Identificación de la Υ (1S) en colisiones ultraperiféricas de PbPb a 5.02 TeV en el experimento CMS del LHC.

    • Student: César Omar Ramírez Alvarez.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 4 November 2021

  • Separación de la J/ψ en sus componentes prompt y non-prompt usando colisiones protón-protón a 5.02 TeV en el experimento CMS.

    • Student: Jesús Adrián Zatarain Alvarado.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 5 November 2021

  • Acceptance times efficiency corrections for Upsilon (1S) production in proton-proton collisions at 5.02 TeV.

    • Student: José Daniel Gaytán Villarreal.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 10 March 2022

  • Cálculos de errores sistemáticos en la extracción de la señal de la Upsilon (1S) en colisiones protón-protón.

    • Student: Alexis Ureña Sauceda.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 28 September 2023

  • Correcciones a la luminosidad en colisiones protón-protón a 13 TeV del año 2018 usando los detectores HFET y BCM1F

    • Student: Alexa Judith Montoya López.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 4 October 2023

  • Estudio de la luminosidad en colisiones protón-protón del año 2017 usando los detectores PCC y PLT.

    • Student: Kevin Jesús Moreno Guerrero.

    • Institution: Universidad Sonora.

    • Degree: Bachelor's.

    • Exam: 14 December 2023