Cristina Mantilla-Suarez

Cristina Mantilla-Suarez is an experimental particle physicist seeking to understand the properties and interactions of the Higgs boson and the particle nature of dark matter with accelerator experiments.

Prof. Mantilla-Suarez studies interactions of the Higgs boson, including the interaction of the Higgs boson with itself, using data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located in Geneva, Switzerland.  Her research incorporates elements from Artificial Intelligence to dramatically improve the identification and reconstruction of particles from collision data.

Cristina is also interested on the use of low cost but high intensity accelerator beam-lines to expand the search for dark matter, for example with the DarkQuest experiment. She is currently working on the construction of the Light Dark Matter Experiment, an experiment that aims to produce and detect dark matter with a precise and intense electron beam at SLAC, California. This experiment will have leading sensitivity to thermal production of dark matter for particle masses below the proton mass, between 1 and 500 MeV. 

Mantilla-Suarez et.al., First test results of the HGCAL concentrator ASICs: ECON-T and ECON-D. Journal of Instrumentation 19. C03050. 10.1088/1748-0221/19/03/C03050.

CMS Collaboration, Search for highly energetic double Higgs boson production in the two bottom quark and two vector boson all-hadronic final state, CMS-PAS-HIG-23-012

D. Forbes et.al., New Searches for Muonphilic Particles at Proton Beam Dump Spectrometers, Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 11, 116026

CMS Collaboration, Search for nonresonant pair production of highly energetic Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 4, 041803

LDMX Collaboration, Current Status and Future Prospects for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment, Contribution to 2021 Snowmass Summer Study

Beitchman Summer Graduate Research Fellowship Committee (Member)

Graduate Student Admissions Committee (Member)

Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Student Award Committee (Member)