Alison Elliot

Alison Elliot is a Research Associate working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the United Kingdom.1

Professional Background

Alison is a high-energy experimental particle physicist specializing in research related to the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).4 Her work involves:

• Participating in searches for new physics phenomena, including vector-like quarks, vector-like leptons, and heavy neutral leptons2
• Developing and benchmarking trigger and reconstruction algorithms, with a focus on tracking and vertexing algorithms for FPGAs5
• Contributing to software development for High Energy Physics experiments as part of the SWIFT-HEP project funded by STFC6

Education and Skills

Alison received her education from the University of Victoria.1 Her expertise includes:

• Particle physics data analysis
• FPGA programming for accelerating software in particle physics applications
• Proton-proton collision experiments at high energies (13 TeV)24

Current Work

At present, Alison is involved in:

• Research on the CMS experiment, particularly in areas related to particle reconstruction and data analysis
• Efforts to speed up software using FPGAs, potentially to aid in the search for dark matter4
• Participating in updates and improvements to the CMS detector and its reconstruction capabilities3

Alison Elliot's LinkedIn username is aaelliot, as mentioned in the query.1