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Monika Grothe, Curriculum vitæ, July 2012 1 

Name: Monika Eva Maria Grothe 

E-mail: Monika.Grothe@cern.ch 

Office Address 

CERN 

EP division 

1211 Geneva 23 

Switzerland 

Tel. +41 22 767 9258 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 

Curriculum vitæ of Monika Grothe 

Born: July 8, 1968 in Trier, Germany 

Nationality: German 

Home Address 

4, Chemin de la Ramaz 

01630 Sergy 

France 

Tel. +33 4 50 20 9598 

Since 03/2012: Operations support USCMS & Princeton University, USA 

Group of Prof. Daniel Marlow 

08/2003 - 12/2011: Assistant Scientist University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA 

Group of Prof. Wesley Smith 

Semesters Spring 2011 & Winter 2011/12: Professore a contratto 

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy 

International Medical Degree Program (Medical Physics) 

09/2004 – 08/2007: Professore a contratto (fixed-term professorship 3 years) 

University of Torino, Italy 

Graduate School of Physics 

Sponsors: Prof. D.Gamba & Dr. A.Staiano 

11/2001 – 08/2003 Research Fellow Experimental Physics Division, CERN, Switzerland 

Group of Dr. N.Ellis, CERN EP 

05/1998 – 10/2001 Postdoctoral Researcher University of California at Santa Cruz, USA 

Group of Prof. A.Seiden 

07/1994 – 03/1998 PhD student University of Bonn, Germany 

Advisor: Prof. E.Hilger 

Jan/Feb 1993 Internship Applied Physics, Hoechst AG, Frankfurt, Germany 

EDUCATION 

03/1998 Doctor rerum naturalium Grade: sehr gut + (very good plus) 

University of Bonn, Germany 

Doctorate in physics with supplemental subject radiobiology 

06/1994 Diplom Physik Grade: sehr gut (very good) 

University of Bonn, Germany

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RESEARCH AWARDS AND STIPENDIARY SUPPORT 

“Rientro dei cervelli” program award 2003 - 2007 Grant (3-years, 140,000 Euros) from 

the Italian Ministry for University and Research to carry out a project on central exclusive 

Higgs production with the CMS apparatus as professore a contratto at the University of 

Torino, Italy (see cofin.cineca.it/cervelli). 

Scholarship 1989 – 1994 Awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung 

des Deutschen Volkes) based on exceptional academic merit 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Overview 

Member of the CMS collaboration, CERN, Switzerland, 2003 – present 

Co-leader of working group to search in CMS data for the dijet mass anomaly seen by 

CDF in W+2jet events 

Led Wisconsin effort (3 students) in measurement of associated production of vector bosons 

andjetswithCMS 

Led definition of and preparation for the CMS forward physics program 

Major responsibility in the CMS calorimeter trigger for detector controls system software 

Member of the FP420 R&D collaboration, CERN, Switzerland, 2005 – 2008 

Responsible for trigger R&D studies for central exclusive Higgs production 

Member of the ATLAS collaboration, CERN, Switzerland, 2001 – 2003 

Software development for the ATLAS high-level trigger (HLT) 

Organization of muon trigger HLT software vertical slice test for HLT Technical Design 

Report 

Member of the BaBar collaboration, SLAC, USA, 1998 – 2001 

Major responsibility in the installation and commissioning of the BaBar Silicon Vertex 

Tracker electronics 

Run coordinator for the Silicon Vertex Tracker 

Principal author of first measurement of charm mixing parameter y with BaBar 

Member of the ZEUS collaboration, DESY, Germany, 1994 – 1998 

Principal author of first measurement of the diffractive proton structure function with the 

ZEUS Leading proton spectrometer 

Participation in ZEUS calorimeter and presampler test beam 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Positions of responsibility 

Member of the CMS conference committee 2010-present 

Chair of three analysis review committees in CMS 2010 - 2011 

Physics coordinator 2007-2008 

Of the CMS physics analysis group on forward physics 

Co-convenor CMS/TOTEM working group on forward physics in 2006 

Principal CMS editor of CMS/TOTEM Letter of Intent for the LHC Experimental Committee 

(LHCC), on possible future joint physics research program


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Detailed description 

Since 08/2003: CMS collaboration 

Operations support for CMS luminosity group, USCMS & Princeton U, USA; Group of Prof. D.Marlow 

Assistant Scientist, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Group of Prof. W.Smith 

Professore a contratto (fixed-term Professorship 3 years), Univ. of Torino, Italy; Sponsors: Prof. 

D.Gamba & Dr. A.Staiano 

Operations support for the CMS luminosity group: 

• Responsible for analyzing special LHC Van-der-Meer scans to determine absolute luminosity 

calibration 

• Responsible as detector-on-call (DOC) shifter for the day-to-day operation of the CMS 

HF-based luminosity system 

• Develop method to use muon candidates reconstructed offline as luminometer 

• Represent the luminosity group vis a vis CMS offline operations 

Data analysis in the electroweak physics analysis working group of CMS: 

• Co-leader of working group to search for the dijet mass anomaly seen by CDF in W+2jet 

events; collaborate closely with authors of Monte Carlo descriptions of the W+2jets dijet 

mass spectrum; result made public as CMS-PAS-EWK-11-017, paper under preparation 

• First CMS meaurement of vector boson production in association with jets: Led the Wisconsin 

effort (3 students) on this analysis; contributed crucial parts of the analysis shown 

in Moriond2011 conference: unfolding corrections and electron efficiency corrections derived 

with tag-and-probe data-driven technique; results published in J. High Energy Phys. 

01 (2012) 010 

• First CMS measurement of inclusive W and Z cross sections: contributed, together with 

2 U Wisconsin students, trigger correction factors to measurement; results published in J. 

High Energy Phys. 01 (2011) 080 

• In 2009/10, served as production and validation contact of the electroweak physics analysis 

group; provided, together with one U Wisconsin student, the data-quality code run 

routinely in the CMS offline DQM framework for electroweak electron channel decays 

Calorimeter trigger SLHC upgrade: 

• Contact for the SLHC L1 calorimeter trigger emulator software 

• Carried out, together with one U Wisconsin student and several CERN summer students, 

L1 calorimeter algorithm studies, results of which were included in the CMS Upgrades 

Technical Proposal, CERN-LHCC-2011-006 

Preparation of data analysis with CMS: 

• Coordinator, 2007/08, of the CMS physics analysis group on forward physics; during 2006 

co-convenor, with J. Mnich, of the CMS diffractive and forward physics working group 

• Achieved CMS approval of four Monte Carlo based analyses relevant for first-year data 

taking: on exclusive production of dileptons and exclusive photoproduction of Upsilons, 

on single diffractive W production, on single diffractive dijet production, on accessing low 

Bjorken-x in forward jets 

• Extension of the CMS baseline detector for detecting central exclusive production (CEP) 

of Higgs, which is a discovery channel in certain regions of the MSSM


– Was awarded three-year grant (140,000 Euros) under the “Rientro dei Cervelli” program 

of the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research for my research 

proposal on CEP Higgs with the CMS detector 

– Member of the R&D collaboration FP420 that established the feasibility of instrumenting 

the region 420 m away from the CMS or ATLAS IPs with near-beam and 

fast timing detectors to render possible detection of the diffractively scattered protons 

in CEP, where the Higgs emerges from double-Pomeron exchange 

– Led studies on improved ways of triggering on CEP Higgs (see also collaboration with 

TOTEM, see below); led studies to assess the background from random coincidences 

with protons from pile-up events 

– Participated in studying the discovery potential for a light Higgs boson in the CEP 

channel pp → pHp with H → WW∗ • Inclusion of a dedicated forward detectors trigger stream in the CMS trigger 

– Investigated, in collaboration with TOTEM, possibility of using the TOTEM detectors 

up to 220 m from the IP in the CMS trigger 

– Principal author of the chapter on a dedicated forward detectors trigger stream in 

the CMS Physics Technical Design Report (PTDR) Vol. 2 

• Collaboration with TOTEM experiment which shares the IP with CMS 

– Co-coordinator of the CMS/TOTEM diffractive and forward physics group in 2006: 

Mandate was to establish the physics reach of combining the CMS and TOTEM 

detectors, to coordinate the efforts of the two collaborations towards a joint program 

and to demonstrate its feasibility 

– Leading role in preparing a diffractive and forward physics report, jointly written with 

TOTEM, that describes the physics reach of CMS in combination with TOTEM; 

submitted to the LHCC as CERN/LHCC 2006-039/G-124, Dec 2006; 

– Iamtheprincipal editor of the CMS/TOTEM report, together with J. Mnich, from 

the CMS side 

– My direct contributions to the report include the trigger studies and the study of 

impact of pile-up background on the detection of CEP Higgs 

• Gave 13 invited seminar talks on forward physics with CMS 

CMS hardware work on the first level trigger electronics: 

• CMS Level-1 Regional Calorimeter Trigger (RCT) Group: 

– In production testing of RCT electronic boards responsible for developing software 

tools for automated testing and an electronic logbook, in C++ and Java 

– Participated in production tests of RCT boards at U Wisconsin 

– Trained technicians and student hourlies 

• After relocation to CERN, local U Wisconsin contact with major responsibility for the 

RCT trigger software 

– Responsible for integrating RCT control software into Trigger Supervisor framework 

– Developed from scratch calorimeter trigger electronics slow control (detector controls 

system – DCS) software based on commercial software package PVSS and the CERN 

JCOP framework since CMS-wide available slow control solutions could not be used 

– Responsible for maintaining calorimeter trigger DCS software as part of the CMS 

central detector controls system


11/2001 – 08/2003: ATLAS experiment 

CERN research fellow; Group of Dr. N.Ellis 

• ATLAS High-Level Trigger (HLT) Group 

– Software development: Designed and implemented code for transient event store; 

hands-on experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques in C++ 

– Created and coordinated the HLT-muon working group; group provided HLT core 

muon selection capabilities (muon vertical trigger slice) for HLT Technical Design 

report, published as ATLAS TDR-016; thereby widened scope of the TDR beyond 

what was thought feasible originally 

• Gave plenary presentation at CHEP03 conference (San Diego, USA) on the architecure of 

the HLT event selection software 

05/1998 – 10/2001: BaBar experiment 

Postdoctoral Researcher, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA; Group of Prof. A.Seiden 

• BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) Group 

– Responsible for production and quality control of part of SVT readout electronics; 

led Santa Cruz team (3 technicians, 2 PhD students) during installation of SVT in 

BaBar; took part in commissioning of SVT 

– SVT run-coordinator Jan.-May 2000: negotiated the abort thresholds of the SVT 

radiation protection system with PEP-II 

– Presented first-year experience with SVT at Vertex2000 conference (Michigan, USA), 

published as NIM.A473:7-16,2001 

• BaBar Tracking Working Group: Rendered functional reconstruction of cosmic ray tracks 

for use in SVT alignment; studied performance of tracking system with cosmic ray tracks, 

published in BaBar paper NIM.A479:1-116,2002 

• BaBar Charm Working Group 

– Provided first preliminary BaBar measurement of mixing parameter y from lifetime 

ratio of D 0 → K − π + and D 0 → K + K − 

– Presented my result at Heavy-Flavor-9 conference (2001, Pasadena, USA); final result 

published in BaBar paper Phys.Rev.Lett.91:121801,2003 

• Gave 12 invited seminar talks on D0 mixing in BaBar 

• Wrote review on D0 mixing in collider experiments, published as Mod.Phys.Lett.A18:1,2003 

07/1994 - 03/1998: ZEUS experiment 

PhD student, Univ. of Bonn, Germany; Thesis Adviser: Prof. E.Hilger 

• ZEUS Presampler Group: Took part in studying presampler prototype in test beam and 

in analysis of test beam data; wrote EGS Monte-Carlo simulation to study impact of 

backscattered particles on presampler measurement 

• ZEUS Working Group on Diffraction: Carried out first measurement of diffractive proton 

structure function F D(4) 

2 with ZEUS Leading Proton Spectrometer, published in ZEUS 

paper Eur.Phys.J.C1:81-96,1998; presented my results at DIS97 conference (Chicago, USA) 

04/1993 - 06/1994: ZEUS experiment 

Diploma student, Univ. of Bonn, Germany; Thesis Adviser: PD Dr. B.Diekmann 

• Monte-Carlo studies on detection of electrons from semi-leptonic charm decays with ZEUS


INVITED TALKS 

Early physics with CMS: Forward physics 

Seminar talks: Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR/IN2P3) in Palaiseau, France, 3/2010; 

Institute for subatomic physics research (IReS/IN2P3) in Strasbourg, France, 3/2010; 

Institute of Nuclear Physics (INPL/IN2P3) in Lyon, France, 2/2010 

Forward physics at the LHC 

Invited colloquium talk, Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Jan 2009. 

Working group summary DIS 2008 

Part on hadron-collider physics, for the WG on Diffraction and Vector Mesons, DIS 2008, 

London, April 2008. 

Diffractive Higgs Searches 

Invited talk at the 31st Johns Hopkins workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, August 2007. 

The Pomeron as little helper in tracking down the Higgs ? Forward physics at the LHC 

Invited talk, Spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Dortmund, March 2006. 

Forward physics at LHC 

Seminar talks: Zurich (01/2006), Bonn (05/2006), Helsinki (01/2007), Caltech (03/2007), 

Goettingen (03/2007), Louvain (05/2007), Mainz (07/2007). 

Mixing in the D 0 system at BABAR 

Seminar talks: CERN, DESY (01/2002), Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Munich 

(02/2002). At universities: Bonn (01/2002), Heidelberg (04/2002), Freiburg, Mainz (05/2002), 

Geneva, Zurich, Lausanne (06/2002), Torino (12/2002), Bern (01/2003). 

OTHER TALKS 

Measurement of jets produced in association with W and Z bosons with CMS 

Talk on behalf of the CMS collaboration at EPS-HEP 2011: EPS High Energy Physics 

Conference, Grenoble, France, July 2011. 

Forward physics with CMS 

Talk on behalf of the CMS collaboration, 4th Conference on Physics at LHC, Split, Croatia, 

Sept. 2008. 

Forward detectors around the CMS interaction point and their physics potential 

Talk on behalf of the CMS collaboration, Workshop on high-energy photon interactions at 

the LHC, CERN, April 2008. 

Prospects for diffractive and forward physics at the LHC 

Talk on behalf of the CMS and TOTEM collaborations, 86th meeting of the Large Hadron 

Collider Committee, CERN, January 2007. 

Forward proton detectors at high luminosity at the LHC 

Parallel session talk on behalf of the FP420 collaboration, ICHEP06, Moscow, Russia, July 

2006. 

Towards a diffactive trigger stream in CMS 

Presented at the 4th Manchester Forward Physics Conference, December 2005.


Triggering on diffraction with the CMS Level-1 trigger: Pushing the limits 

Presented at the 3rd Manchester Forward Physics Conference, December 2004. 

Architecture of the ATLAS High Level Trigger Event Selection Software 

Plenary talk on behalf of the ATLAS HLT group, CHEP03, San Diego, March 2003. 

Mixing in the D 0 system at BABAR 

Talk on behalf of the BaBar collaboration, 9th Intl. Symp. on Heavy Flavor Physics, 

Caltech, Sept. 2001 

First-year experience with the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker 

Talk on behalf of the BaBar SVT group, Vertex2000, Michigan, Sept. 2000 

F D 2 

measurements at ZEUS 

Talk on behalf of the ZEUS collaboration, DIS97, Chicago, April 1997 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 

Convenor ISMD 2010 Convenor of the session on “Forward physics and cosmic rays” at 

the 40th International Symposium on Multiparticle (ISMD 2010), Antwerpen, Belgium, 

September 2010 

Local organizing committee EDS 2009 Member of the local organizing committee of the 

13th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering (EDS 2009 – Blois 

workshop), CERN, Switzerland, 2009 

Convenor London workshop on Standard Model measurements with early LHC data 

Convenor for “Diffraction and Forward Physics”, Imperial College, London, March 2009 

International organizing committee of LISHEP 2009 Member of the international organizing 

committee of the International School on High-Energy Physics, LISHEP 2009, Rio 

de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2009 

Convenor ISMD 2008 Convenor of the working group on “Interpolation Region” at the 38th 

International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2008), DESY, Hamburg, 

September 2008 

Convenor DIS 2008 Convenor of the working group on “Diffraction and Vector Mesons” at 

the 16th workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2008), London, UK, April 2008 

Convenor EDS 2007 Convenor of the session on “Forward Physics at the Tevatron and the 

LHC” of the 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Forward 

Physics and QCD (EDS 2007 – Blois workshop), DESY, Germany, May 2007 

Session-Convenor HERA-LHC workshop 2005 Convenor of a session on Level-1 trigger 

issues of forward detectors at the HERA and the LHC workshop series, January 2005


OUTREACH 

Talks for high-school and undergratuate students 

“ 2000 Scientists, 12500 tons of steel, 500 Million Swiss Francs: The search for the infinitely 

small with the most powerful large-scale detectors of physics at CERN in Geneva “ 

• For high-school students of the Angela-Merici-Gymnasium Trier, Germany, Feb 2008. 

• For high-school students at the Gymnasium Calvarienberg Ahrweiler, Germany, June 

2008. 

• For a group of undergraduate students with merit scholarships of the Bavarian Max- 

Weber-Program during their visit to CERN in May 2010. 

Visits to CERN 

Meeting, outreach talk and visit of the CMS center at CERN for students of the Angela- 

Merici-Gymnasium during their CERN visits in June 2010 and in May 2011. 

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 

Member of the German Physical Society 

REFEREE 

Referee for the American Physical Society: Phys.Rev.D and Phys.Rev.Lett. 

Referee for the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) 

CONCISE PUBLICATION LIST 

Note: The 12 articles listed here are selected to present an overview of my work. The full 

publication list is in the appendix. 

Study of the dijet invariant mass distribution in W → lν plus jets events produced in 

pp collisions at √ s =7TeV 

CMS collab. (S.Chatrchyan, M.Grothe et al.), CMS-PAS-EWK-11-017, 2012 

Jet production rates in association with W and Z bosons in pp collisions at √ s =7TeV 

CMS collab. (S.Chatrchyan, M.Grothe et al.), CMS-PAS-EWK-10-012, J. High Energy 

Phys. 01 (2012) 010 

Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √ s =7TeV 

CMS collab. (S.Chatrchyan, M.Grothe et al.), J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2011) 080 

The FP420 R&D project: Higgs and new physics with forward protons at the LHC 

FP420 collab. (M.G.Albrow, M.Grothe et al.), JINST 4:T10001, 2009, arXiv:0806.0302 

[hep-ex] 

Prospects for diffractive and forward physics at the LHC 

M. Grothe, J. Mnich (CMS Editors) 

Document jointly written with TOTEM, CERN/LHCC 2006-039/G-124, December 2006


CMS Physics Technical Design Report – Volume 2: Physics Performance 

CMS collab. (G.L. Bayatian, M. Grothe et al.), CERN/LHCC 2006-021, June 2006; 

J.Phys.G34:995-1579,2007 

Section 7.4: “Diffraction and forward physics” 

Section E.3: “Triggering with forward detectors” 

Mixing in the D 0 System: Results from Collider Experiments 

M.Grothe, Mod.Phys.Lett.A 18 (2003) 1, hep-ex/0301011 

Search for D 0 − D 0 Mixing and a Measurement of the Doubly Cabibbo-suppressed 

Decay Rate in D 0 → Kπ Decays 

BaBar Collab. (B.Aubert, M. Grothe et al.), Phys.Rev.Lett.91 (2003) 171801 

Limits on D 0 − D 0 Mixing and CP Violation from the Ratio of Lifetimes for Decays 

to K − π + , K − K + ,andπ − π + 

BaBar Collab. (B.Aubert, M.Grothe et al.), Phys.Rev.Lett.91 (2003) 121801 

First-year Experience with the BABAR Silicon Vertex Tracker 

M.Grothe on behalf of the BaBar SVT group 

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A473 (2001) 7, Proc. of Vertex2000, Michigan USA, 2000 

Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function F D(4) 

2 at HERA 

ZEUS Collab. (J.Breitweg, M.Grothe et al.), DESY 97-184, Europ.Phys.J. C1 (1998) 81 

CMS PUBLICATIONS REVIEW 

For which I have been analysis review committee chair before publication 

Measurement of the energy flow at large pseudorapidity at the LHC at √ s = 900, 2360 

and 7000 GeV 

CMS collab., CMS Physics Analysis Document FWD-10-002 

Inclusive forward jet production cross sections in protonproton collisions at √ s =7TeV 


Forward energy flow in the CMS detector 


PUBLICATIONS OF THE CMS FORWARD PHYSICS ANALYSIS GROUP 

Publications during my 2007–2008 term as coordinator of the group: 

Exclusive dilepton and Upsilon photoproduction, 

CMS collab., CMS Physics Analysis Document DIF-07-001 

Study of single-diffractive production of W bosons at the LHC, 

CMS collab., CMS Physics Analysis Document DIF-07-002 

Jet reconstruction in the CMS Hadron Forward (HF) calorimeter, 


Observation of Single-Diffractive Production of Di-jets at the LHC, 

CMS collab., CMS Physics Analysis Document FWD-08-002


REFERENCES 

Prof. Sridhara Dasu 

University of Wisconsin 

Department of Physics 

1150 University Avenue 

Madison, WI 53706 

U.S.A. 

dasu@hep.wisc.edu 

Dr. Gautier Hamel de Monchenault 

Centre CEA de Saclay (Essonne) 

Gif-sur-Yvette 

91191 cedex 

France 

Gautier.Hamel.de.Monchenault@cern.ch 

Prof. Wesley Smith 

University of Wisconsin 

Department of Physics 

1150 University Avenue 

Madison, WI 53706 

U.S.A. 

wsmith@hep.wisc.edu

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