Experimental particle physics
CMS data analysis at CERN, including searches for Higgs boson pair production and measurements in the Higgs sector.
Particle physics · Data Analysis · CERN
Oğuz Güzel
Experimental particle physicist working on the CMS Experiment at CERN.
Research
Machine learning
Applications of Python, PyTorch, transformer architectures, and reproducible data-analysis tooling to physics.
Selected Publication
- CMS Collaboration. Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbWW decay channel with two leptons in the final state using proton-proton collision data at √s = 13.6 TeV. Aug. 2026. DOI:10.1007/jhep08(2026)019.
- CMS Collboration. Combination of searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. 2026. DOI:10.1088/1361-6471/ae8ff1.
- CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Performance Results with 2024 Data. Report No: CMS-DP-2025-020. Documentation available at: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/StripsOfflinePlotsFull2024. 2025. URL:https://cds.cern.ch/record/2932521.
- CMS Collaboration. CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Performance in 2023. Report No: CMS-DP-2023-040. Documentation available at: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/StripsOfflinePlotsSummer2023. 2023. URL:https://cds.cern.ch/record/2865841.
- CMS Collaboration. Prospects for HH measurements in the WWγγ and ττγγ final states in proton-proton collisions at √s = 14 TeV at the High Luminosity-LHC. Geneva, 2022. URL:https://cds.cern.ch/record/2804003.
- CMS Collaboration. Snowmass White Paper Contribution: Physics with the Phase-2 ATLAS and CMS Detectors. Geneva, 2022. URL:https://cds.cern.ch/record/2806962.
- Altan Cakir and Oguz Guzel. A Brief Review of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration. 2020. URL:https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07207.
Talks and teaching
Selected presentations
- EFT interpretations in the Higgs sector at CMS — DIS2024, Grenoble. Details, Proceedings
- Higgs self-coupling measurements at CMS — PASCOS 2024, Quy Nhon. Program, Proceedings
Teaching and mentoring
Mentored junior researchers on ML model development, data analysis, and reproducible research.
Education
- PhD in Physics, UCLouvain — 2026
- MSc in Physics, Istanbul Technical University — 2022
- BSc in Astronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University — 2019
Theses
- PhD: From Collisions to Predictions: Search for Non-Resonant Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Fully Leptonic bbWW Final State using CMS Run 3 Data — CERN record.
- MSc: Prospects of Nonresonant Higgs Boson Pair Production Measurement in the WWgg Channel at the HL-LHC with the Phase-II CMS Detector — CERN record.