Ferenc Siklér

• Institute: Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Inst for Part and Nucl Phys
• Department: High Energy Physics, Hadron Physics research group
• Documents: (cv önéletrajz) (selected publications jelentős publikációk) All publications (inSPIRE)

Teaching: Eötvös Collegium, OTDK 2009 physics "Kísérleti részecske- és magfizika a gyakorlatban" [fffn9a68:02] (Eötvös U) Committees: ACCU Hungarian delegate (MagyarAccu), 2007-2010 ECFA Hungarian delegate, 2010- SPSC member 2013- CMS QCD low-pT subgroup leader, -2009 CMS QCD convener 2010-2011 MBUE working group, contact 2010- Member of CMS Publication Committee Heavy Ions editorial board, 2012- Az MTA Részecskefizikai Tudományos Bizottságának titkára, 2012-; közgyűlési képviselő, 2013-;

• Google Scholar profile, MTA profil
• Interviews:
  • CMS Times, 2 July 2007 (lower left)
  • Heti Világgazdaság (hvg) , 29 April 2010, in Hungarian
• Support:
  • Hungarian Scientific Research Fund [OTKA] (K 48898, K 81614)
  • National Office for Research and Technology [NKTH] (H07-B 74296)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation [SNSF] Scopes (128079)
  • EC FP7: AIDA WP2 (C 262025)
• Prizes, grants
  • Géza Györgyi Prize of the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungary, 1999
  • Bolyai Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2001-2004
  • Young Researchers' Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • Lajos Jánossy Prize of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary, 2009
  • Physics Prize of the Section of Physical Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2010
  • Scientific associate, CERN, 2011-2012

News, popular

• Index és Origo, 3 February 2010
• MIT News, 5 February 2010
• Első LHC eredmények rekord energián , Ortvay Kollokvium, Budapest, 18 February 2010; Egy szimulált esemény Határoló körök Egy valódi esemény
• Rekord energiájú ütközések a LHC-ben, MTA hírek, 18 February 2010
• Let the physics begin at the LHC, CERN Courier, 5 May 2010
• Magyar kutatók újabb eredményei a Nagy Hadronütköztetőnél, MTA hírek, 8 Jun 2010
• Background checking at LHC, Phys Rev Lett synopsis, 6 July 2010
• Index, 8 July 2010
• Workshop looks deep into the proton and QCD, CERN Courier, July/August 2010
• Opinions on faster-than-speed-of-light neutrinos Index NOL MR1 Kossuth rádió "Túl a fénysebességen?" HVG, Sep 2011
• Again, opinions on faster-than-speed-of-light neutrinos "Gyorsasági futamok" HVG, Dec 2011
• About the Higgs discovery "A világ egy részecskéje" HVG, scanned , Jul 2012

Activities

Projects: Independent works Publications, notes Conference presentations Software Editorial In Hungarian, in Hungary CMS Publications, notes Conference presentations Analysis review committees In Hungarian, in Hungary ALICE Publications, notes NA61 NA49 Publications Conference presentations In Hungarian, in Hungary

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Independent works

Publications, notes

Author	Title	Journal, archive, document
Ferenc Siklér	Centrality control of hadron nucleus interactions by detection of slow nucleons	arXiv:hep-ph/0304065
Ferenc Siklér	Particle identification with a track fit χ2	Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 620 (2010) 477-483 arXiv:0911.2624 (physics)
Ferenc Siklér	Study of clustering methods to improve primary vertex finding for collider detectors	Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 621 (2010) 526-533 arXiv:0911.2767 (physics)
Ferenc Siklér	Particle identification with a track fit χ2	Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 639 (2011) 256-259
C Salgado et al, incl Ferenc Siklér	Proton-Nucleus Collisions at the LHC: Scientific Opportunities and Requirements	J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 39 (2012) 015010 arXiv:1105.3919 (hep-ph)
Ferenc Siklér Sándor Szeles	Optimized estimation of energy loss rate for charged particles from energy deposit measurements in tracking detectors	Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 687 (2012) 30-39 arXiv:1111.2491 (physics)
Ferenc Siklér	A parametrisation of the energy loss distributions of charged particles and its applications for silicon detectors	Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 691 (2012) 16-29 arXiv:1111.3213 (physics)

Conference presentations

Speaker	Title	Event	Date	File
Ferenc Siklér	Particle identification with a track fit chi-square	RICH2010	Cassis, France, 3-7 May 2010

Software

bud-aida: Vertex finder and particle identification tools

• Minimum bias vertex finder in high pile-up environment
• Gain calibration and energy loss estimation for silicon detectors (in preparation)

Editorial

Editors	Title	Document
Ferenc Siklér, Sándor Hegyi	Ultrarelativistic nucleus nucleus collisions. Proceedings, 18th International Conference, QM'05, Quark Matter 2005, Budapest, Hungary, August 4-9, 2005. Poster Session	Acta Phys. Hung. A27 (2006) 187-394 inSpire

In Hungarian, in Hungary

• Kísérletek a kvark-gluon-plazma előállítására , Természet Világa, 2000. III. különszám: Mikrovilág
• Gyorsítók (in English), Hungarian Teachers Programme 2008 , Genf, 18-19 August 2008
• Detektorok , Hungarian Teachers Programme 2008 , Genf, 18-19 August 2008
• Új részecskeazonosítási módszerek nyomkövető detektorokkal , ELFT Részecskefizikai Szeminárium, Budapest, 15 April 2009
• Pixel és csík szilíciumdetektorok hely- és energiamérésének optimalizálása , XIV. Magfizikus Találkozó, Jávorkút, 3 September 2009
• Gyorsítók, részecskék, detektorok , Mafihe CERN látogatás, Genf, 11 March 2010
• A részecskék világa - Mi újság a CERN-ben? , Révai nap, Győr, 3 December 2011
• Új kiértékelési módszerek és alkalmazásuk az erős kölcsönhatás vizsgálatában , Budapest-Debrecen CMS meeting, 14 May 2012
• Az LHC nagy kísérletei, , Mafihe Részecskefizika Téli Iskola, 6-8 Feb 2013
• Az LHC új részecskéje -- eredmények és feladatok , RAKK konferencia, Eger, 20 Mar, 2013

CMS

• Notes, analysis notes, conference reports
• Internal talks (Indico)

Publications, notes

Author	Title	Journal, archive, document
Ferenc Siklér	Hadronic physics with the CMS experiment	APH A Heavy Ion Physics 25 (2006) 57-63 arXiv:hep-ph/0504259 CMS CR-2005/006
Ferenc Siklér	The p+A capabilities of CMS	CMS CR-2006/001
Ferenc Siklér	Reconstruction of low pT charged particles with the pixel detector	CMS AN-2006/100
Ferenc Siklér	Reconstruction of V0s and photon conversions with the pixel detector	CMS AN-2006/101
The CMS Collaboration, incl A László, F Siklér, G Veres	CMS Physics Technical Design Report, Volume II: Physics Performance	J Phys G: Nucl Part Phys 34 (2007) 995-1579
Ferenc Siklér	Low pT Hadronic Physics with CMS	Int J Mod Phys E 16 (2007) 1819-1825 arXiv:physics/0702193 CMS CR-2007/007
Krisztián Krajczár, Gergely Patay, Ferenc Siklér, Gábor Veres et al.	CMS Physics TDR Addendum: High Density QCD with Heavy Ions	J Phys G: Nucl Part Phys 34 (2007) 2307-2455 CERN-LHCC-2007-009
Ferenc Siklér	High Density QCD Physics with Heavy Ions in CMS	Proceedings of the XLIInd Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions arXiv:0705.3538 (nucl-ex) CMS CR-2007/023
Ferenc Siklér	Soft probes of high density QCD physics with CMS	J Phys G: Nucl Part Phys 35 (2008) 044045 arXiv:0710.1874 (nucl-ex) CMS CR-2007/054
Ferenc Siklér, Krisztián Krajczár	Measurement of charged hadron spectra in proton-proton collisions at √s = 14 TeV	CMS AN-2007/021 QCD-07-001 PAS
Ferenc Siklér	Soft physics capabilities of CMS in p-p and Pb-Pb	J Phys G: Nucl Part Phys 35 (2008) 104150 arXiv:0805.0809 (nucl-ex) CMS CR-2008/011
The CMS Collaboration incl Ferenc Siklér	The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC	JINST 3 (2008) S08004
Ferenc Siklér	Towards the measurement of charged hadron spectra in CMS	PoS HIGHPTLHC:011,2008 CMS CR-2008/077
Ferenc Siklér	First physics with hadrons and the underlying event at CMS	PoS 2008LHC:037,2009 CMS CR-2009/002
Ferenc Siklér, Krisztián Krajczár	CMS: minimum bias studies	DESY-PROC-2009-06 pages 91-95, arXiv:1003.4220 (hep-ex) CMS CR-2009/041
Ferenc Siklér [CMS Collaboration]	The 2008 CMS Computing, Software and Analysis Challenge (section 9.5.1)	CMS IN-2008/044
CMS Collaboration	Transverse momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV	JHEP 02 (2010) 041 arXiv:1002.0621 (hep-ex)
CMS Collaboration	Transverse momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV	Phys Rev Lett 105 (2010) 022002 arXiv:1005.3299 (hep-ex)
Ferenc Siklér	Highlights from CMS	CMS CR-2010/094 PoS(DIS 2010)006
Ferenc Siklér	Measurements of hadron production at CMS	CMS CR-2011/006 EPJ Web of Conferences 13 (2011) 03002
CMS Collaboration	Study of the inclusive production of charged pions, kaons, and protons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.76, and 7 TeV	CMS PAS FSQ-12-014 arXiv:1207.4724 CERN-PH-EP-2012-202 Eur. Phys. J. C 72 (2012) 2164
Ferenc Siklér	Spectra of charged pions, kaons, and protons identified via tracker energy loss from CMS	CMS CR-2012/059

Conference presentations

Speaker	Title	Event	Date	Files
Ferenc Siklér	Hadronic physics with the CMS experiment	"RHIC School 04", 4th Budapest Winter School on Heavy Ion Physics	Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 December 2004
Ferenc Siklér	The p+A capabilities of CMS	Workshop on Proton-Nucleus Collisions at the LHC	CERN, 25-27 May 2005
Ferenc Siklér	Low pT Hadronic Physics with CMS	Quark Matter 2006 Conference	Shanghai, China, 14-20 November 2006
Ferenc Siklér	Low pT hadronic physics with CMS	Zimányi 2006 Winter School	Budapest, Hungary, 11-13 December 2006
Ferenc Siklér	Heavy Ion Physics with CMS	Moriond QCD and Hadronic interactions	La Thuile, Italy, 17-24 March 2007
Ferenc Siklér	Soft probes of high density QCD physics with CMS	International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter	Levoča, Slovakia, 24 - 29 June 2007
Ferenc Siklér	Soft probes of high density QCD physics with CMS	Zimányi 2007 Winter School	Budapest, Hungary, 5 - 7 December 2007
Ferenc Siklér	Soft physics capabilities of CMS in p-p at 14 TeV and Pb-Pb at 5.5 TeV	Quark Matter 2008 Conference	Jaipur, India, 4-10 February 2008
Ferenc Siklér	Towards the measurement of charged hadron spectra in CMS	High pT physics at LHC	Tokaj, Hungary, 16 - 19 March 2008
Ferenc Siklér	First physics with hadrons and the underlying event at CMS	Physics at LHC 2008	Split, Croatia, 29 September - 4 October 2008
Ferenc Siklér	The study of the minimum bias events	MPI@LHC'08	Perugia, Italy, 27-31 October 2008
Ferenc Siklér	Highlights from CMS (physics overview)	DIS10, XVIII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects	Firenze, Italy, 19-23 April 2010
Ferenc Siklér	QCD analysis in CMS using LCG (invited)	Regional Tier-2 WLCG Workshop	Vienna, Austria, 22 June 2010
Ferenc Siklér	Measurements of hadron production at CMS (invited)	HCBM 2010	Budapest, Hungary, 15-20 August 2010
Ferenc Siklér	Overview of QCD results from CMS	Zimányi 2010 Winter School on Heavy Ion Physics	Budapest, Hungary, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2010
Ferenc Siklér	Review of QCD results from CMS	Zimányi 2011 Winter School on Heavy Ion Physics	Budapest, Hungary, 28 Nov - 2 Dec 2011
Ferenc Siklér	Inclusive hadron production (multiplicities and spectra) in p-p collisions in CMS	DIS 2012, XX International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects	Bonn, Germany, 26-30 March 2012
Ferenc Siklér	Some recent CMS results on particle spectra	NA61/NA49 Collaboration meeting	Budapest, Hungary, 15 May 2012
Ferenc Siklér	CMS plans for p-Pb data taking	pA@LHC Workshop	Geneva, 4-8 June 2012
Ferenc Siklér	New results on multiplicites and particle spectra	Minimum Bias and Underlying Event Working Group	Geneva, 3 December 2012
Ferenc Siklér	Low momentum particle identification and its applications in CMS	Zimányi Winter School 2012	Budapest, 3-7 December 2012
Ferenc Siklér	Tsallis fitting of the CMS data	CERN Heavy Ion Forum	Geneva (vidyo), 2 February 2013

Analysis review committees

• ARC-EXO-08-003 (member), ARC-QCD-09-002 (chair), ARC-FWD-11-003 (chair), ARC-FSQ-12-004 (member), ARC-HIN-12-006 (chair), ARC-HIN-12-002 (member), ARC-HIN-12-003 (chair), ARC-HIN-12-015 (member)

In Hungarian, in Hungary

• The CMS hadron program (in English), Open Meeting of ECFA, Debrecen, Hungary, 6 October 2006
• Hadronfizika a CMS detektorral , ELFT Részecskefizikai Szeminárium, Budapest, 30 March 2005
• Az ősanyag nyomában , Simonyi nap, Budapest, 18 October 2005
• Kvarkanyag keresése óriásdetektorokkal , TDK Hétvége, Esztergom, 23 October 2005
• Hadronfizika kis p_T-s részecskékkel az LHC CMS kísérleténél , XIII. Magfizikus Találkozó, Jávorkút, 5-7 May 2006
• A CMS kísérlet , "Atommagok ütközései" nyári iskola, Budapest, 20 July 2006
• Új lehetőségek a CMS kísérletnél: szoft fizika 900 GeV-en , ELFT Részecskefizikai Szeminárium, Budapest, 15 November 2006
• Új lehetőségek az LHC CMS kísérleténél , ELFT, Budapest, 16 April 2007
• A kvarkanyag vizsgálata ultranagy energián , Fizikus Vándorgyűlés , Eger, 22-24 August 2007
• Az LHC kísérleteinek összefoglalója , Elméleti Fizikai Iskola , Gyöngyöstarján, 27-31 October 2007
• Kísérletek az LHC-nál , Mafihe Téli Iskola , Gyenesdiás, 2-5 February 2008
• Hungarian activities in the CMS experiment , MCB TTT session, Budapest, 30 May 2008
• Erős kölcsönhatás az LHC-n a CMS kísérlettel , Mafihe TDK hétvége, Csillebérc, 9 October 2009
• A Nagy Hadronütköztető rövid bemutatása , VII. Országos Anyagtudományi Konferencia, Balatonkenese, 11 November 2009
• Azonosított hadronok, eloszlásaik energia- és multiplicitás-függése a CMS kísérletben, , ELFT Részecskefizikai Szeminárium, Budapest, 25 April 2012
• Erős kölcsönhatás az LHC-n a CMS kísérlettel , Mafihe TDK hétvége, Budapest, 4 May 2012
• A Standard Modellen innen és túl , CERN 20, MTA, Budapest 3 October 2012

ALICE

Publications, notes

Author	Title	Journal, archive, document
Caliandro R, Conrad J, Contreras G, Demarco N, Fini R A, Gallio M, Jorgensen C, Karpechev E, Kurepin A, Maevskaia A, Masera M, Monteno M, Noferini F, Oppedisano C, Scomparin E, Sikler F and Virgili T	Event Characterization in ALICE	ALICE-INT-2005-034
ALICE Collaboration	ALICE: Physics Performance Report, Volume II	J. Phys. G 32 (2006) 1295, especially section 6.1.6, pages 1540-1547

NA61

• Camac and Time-of-flight DAQ upgrade

NA49

Publications

• Published (from inSpire)
• PhD thesis (in Hungarian, gzipped postscript)
• Notes (abstracts; access material with )

Conference presentations

Speaker	Title	Event	Date	File	Document
Ferenc Siklér	Hadron production in nuclear collisions from the NA49 experiment at 158-GeV/c/A	Quark Matter 1999	Torino, Italy, 10-15 May 1999		Nucl. Phys. A661 (1999) 45-54 inSpire
Ferenc Siklér	Hadron production in p+A collisions from NA49 experiment at 158 GeV/c	Workshop on Proton-Nucleus Collisions	LBL, Berkeley CA, USA, 5 February 2000
Ferenc Siklér	Baryon stopping: a link between elementary p+p interactions and controlled centrality p+A and A+A collisions	ICHEP 2000	Osaka, Japan, 27 Jul - 2 Aug 2000		inSpire Proceedings TOC
Ferenc Siklér	Recent NA49 results on Pb + Pb collisions at CERN SPS	ISMD 2000	Tihany, Hungary, 9-15 October 2000		arXiv:hep-ex/0102004
Ferenc Siklér	Lead-glass detector for NA49	RHIC School 2003	Budapest, Hungary, 8-11 December 2003		arXiv:physics/040411

In Hungarian, in Hungary

• Hadronfizika az NA49-kísérletnél , Fizika Szemle, 2003 October.