Address:
Technische Universität Dortmund
Experimentelle Physik IV
Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a
44227 Dortmund
Germany

Office: C/P 03-134

Phone: +49 231 755 3501

ORCID ID: link

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Research Interests and Contributions

In my research, I study the properties of elementary particles in order to understand the nature of the fundamental building blocks of our universe. I analyze data taken with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and I am especially interested in studying the properties of the Higgs boson and the top quark and in searching for still unknown heavy particles. I work on new methodology and algorithms for data analysis at collider experiments and in particular on the development of machine-learning applications for the Large Hadron Collider.

Contributions:

• Searches for new particles (heavy quarks, dark matter, heavy W and Higgs bosons)
• Higgs physics, especially measurements of the Higgs-boson’s coupling to the top quark
• Top-quark physics (searches for rare processes)
• Development of methodology for data analysis at the Large Hadron Collider
• Development of machine learning applications at the Large Hadron Collider

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2014: TU Dortmund University (Habilitation 2019)
• 2012 - 2014: Yale University, USA
• 2009 - 2012: University of Göttingen (PhD 2012)
• 2003 - 2008: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Diploma 2008) and Paris-Sud University, France (2005 - 2006)

List of Publications

A complete list of my publications as member of the ATLAS Collaboration can be found on inspire.

Publications in international peer-reviewed journals 

• ATLAS Collaboration, Constraints on mediator-based dark matter and scalar dark energy models using √s = 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS detector, JHEP 05 (2019) 142, arXiv:1903.01400.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for large missing transverse momentum in association with one top-quark in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 05 (2019) 041, arXiv:1812.09743.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to Wb in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 05 (2019) 164, arXiv:1812.07343.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Performance of top-quark and W-boson tagging with ATLAS in Run 2 of the LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 375, arXiv:1808.07858.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data collected in 2015 and 2016, Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 205, arXiv:1810.05087.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for pair- and single-production of vector-like quarks in final states with at least one Z boson decaying into a pair of electrons or muons in pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at √s =13 TeV, Phys. Rev. D 98 (2018) 112010, arXiv:1806.10555.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Combination of the searches for pair-produced vector-like partners of the third generation quarks at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 211801, arXiv:1808.02343.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb^-1 of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 98 (2018) 052005, arXiv:1802.04146.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B 784 (2018) 173, arXiv:1806.00425.
• N. Castro, J. Erdmann, C. Grunwald, K. Kröninger, N.-A. Rosien, EFTfitter: a tool for interpreting measurements in the context of effective field theories, Eur. Phys. J. C 76 (2016) 432, arXiv:1605.05585.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 06 (2016) 093, arXiv:1603.03127.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and coupling strengths using pp collision data at √s = 7 and 8 TeV in the ATLAS experiment, Eur. Phys. J. C 76 (2016) 6, arXiv:1507.04548.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H^± → tb decay channel in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector, JHEP 03 (2016) 127, arXiv:1512.03704.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon and measurement of the ttγ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 072007, arXiv:1502.00586.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for W’ → tb → qqbb decays in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 165, arXiv:1408.0886.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for H → γγ produced in association with top quarks and constraints on the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson using data taken at 7 TeV and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B 740 (2015) 222, arXiv:1409.3122.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 112015, arXiv:1408.7084.
• J. Erdmann, S. Guindon, K. Kröninger, B. Lemmer, O. Nackenhorst, A. Quadt, P. Stolte, A likelihood-based reconstruction algorithm for top-quark pairs and the KLFitter framework, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 748 (2014) 18, arXiv:1312.5595.
• ATLAS Liquid Argon Endcap Collaboration, Evaluation of the local hadronic calibration with combined beam-test data for the endcap and forward calorimeters of ATLAS in the pseudorapidity region 2.5 < |η| < 4.0, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 693 (2012) 74.

Publications submitted to international peer-reviewed journals

• M. Barros, N. Castro, J. Erdmann, G. Geßner, K. Kröninger, S. La Cagnina, A. Peixoto, Study of interference effects in the search for flavour-changing neutral current interactions involving the top quark and a photon or a Z boson at the LHC, arXiv:1909.08443.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for flavour-changing neutral currents in processes with one top quark and a photon using 81 fb^-1 of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment, arXiv:1908.08461.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Electron and photon performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2015-2017 LHC proton-proton collision data, arXiv:1908:00005.
• J. Erdmann, T. Kallage, K. Kröninger, O. Nackenhorst, From the Bottom to the Top - Reconstruction of ttbar Events with Deep Learning, arXiv:1907.11181.
• J. Erdmann, A tagger for strange jets based on tracking information using long short-term memory, arXiv:1907.07505. 

Publications with ATLAS-Collaboration-internal review

• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel using 80 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2018-028 (2018), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for single production of a vector-like B quark decaying into a bottom quark and a Higgs boson which decays into a pair of photons, ATLAS-CONF-2018-024 (2018), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Identification of Hadronically-Decaying W Bosons and Top Quarks Using High-Level Features as Input to Boosted Decision Trees and Deep Neural Networks in ATLAS at √s = 13 TeV, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2017-004 (2017), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2016-072 (2016), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of fiducial, differential and production cross sections in the H → γγ decay channel with 13.3 fb^-1 of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2016-067 (2016), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Boosted hadronic top identification at ATLAS for early 13 TeV data, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2015-053 (2015), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the backgrounds to the H → γγ search and reappraisal of its sensitivity with 37 pb^-1 of data recorded by the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2011-004 (2011), CDS.
• ATLAS Collaboration, Local Hadronic Calibration, ATL-LARG-PUB-2009-001-2 (2009), CDS.

Interdisciplinary work on natural language processing (with peer review, accepted)

• A. Aker, M. Hamacher, A. Nti, A. Smets, H. Gravenkamp, J. Erdmann, S. Mayer, J. Serong, A. Welpinghus, F. Marchi, Corpus of news articles annotated with article level sentiment,
Third International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’19), Paris, France.
• A. Aker, M. Hamacher, A. Smets, A. Nti, L. Tran, H. Gravenkamp, J. Erdmann, S. Mayer, J. Serong, A. Welpinghus, F. Marchi, Corpus of news articles annotated with article level subjectivity, Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure (ROME 2019), Paris, France.

Conference Proceedings 

• J. Erdmann on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration, Searches for Exotic Phenomena in ATLAS, submitted to proceedings of the XXVII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2019), Torino, Italy, CDS.
• J. Erdmann on behalf of the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, Beyond Standard Model searches by ATLAS and CMS, submitted to proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA 2018), Moscow, Russian Federation, CDS.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS Collaboration, Overview of searches for single production of vector-like top and bottom quarks with the ATLAS experiment at 13 TeV, proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Bad Neuenahr, Germany, eConf C1809161, arXiv:1811.11496.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, Experimental results with boosted top quarks in the final state, proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Cannes, France, editor: F. Derue, eConf C1409281 (2015), arXiv:1412.0104.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS Collaboration, Search for resonances in top anti-top pairs with the ATLAS detector, proceedings of the X^th Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Munich, Germany, editors: M. Berwein, N. Brambilla and S. Paul, PoS(Confinement X)226 (2013).
• K. Agashe et al., Warped Extra Dimensional Benchmarks for Snowmass 2013, proceedings of the 2013 Community Summer Study on the Future of U.S. Particle Physics: Snowmass on the Mississippi, Minneapolis, MN, USA, editors: A. N. Graf, M. E. Peskin and J. L. Rosner, eConf C1307292 (2013), arXiv:1309.7847.
• K. Agashe et al., Top quark working group report, proceedings of the 2013 Community Summer Study on the Future of U.S. Particle Physics: Snowmass on the Mississippi, Minneapolis, MN, USA, editors: A. N. Graf, M. E. Peskin and J. L. Rosner, eConf C1307292 (2013), arXiv:1311.2028.

Conference Presentations

International

• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS Collaboration, Searches for Exotic Phenomena in ATLAS, Conference “Interpreting the LHC Run 2 Data and Beyond”, Trieste, Italy, 2019, CDS.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS Collaboration, Searches for Resonances Decaying to Quarks using the ATLAS Detector, XXVII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Torino, Italy, 2019, CDS.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, Beyond Standard Model Searches by ATLAS and CMS, 4th International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Moscow, Russia, 2018, CDS.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, Status of direct searches for top-quark partners at the LHC, Conference “A First Glance Beyond the Energy Frontier“, Trieste, Italy, 2016, CDS.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, Experimental Results in the Boosted Regime, 7th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Cannes, France, 2014, CDS.
• J. Erdmann for the ATLAS Collaboration, Search for resonances in top anti-top pairs with the ATLAS detector, Xth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Munich, 2012, CDS.

National (selected)

• J. Erdmann, A long way to discovery – direct searches at the LHC, Spring Conference of the German Physical Society, Würzburg, 2018.
• J. Erdmann, Direct Searches using Top Signatures, Symposium “Top – a window to new Physics?” at the Annual meeting of the German ATLAS institutions, Heidelberg, 2016.
• J. Erdmann, Search for new phenomena with top quarks at the ATLAS experiment, Spring Conference of the German Physical Society, Hamburg, 2016.

Lehre

• WiSe 2019/20:
  • Teilchenphysik I, LSF
  • Die Suche nach neuen Teilchen, Dunkler Materie & Co., LSF
• SoSe 2019:
  • Maschinelles Lernen für Physiker*innen, LSF Moodle,
  • Lesekurs zur Topquark-Physik, LSF, Moodle
• WiSe 2018/19:
  • Übungen zur Einführung in die Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik, LSF, Moodle
• SoSe 2018:
  • Maschinelles Lernen für Physiker*innen, LSF, Moodle
  • Lesekurs zur Topquark-Physik, LSF, Moodle
• WiSe 2017/18:
  • Teilchenphysik I, LSF, Moodle
• SoSe 2017:
  • Lesekurs zur Topquark-Physik, LSF, Moodle
  • Messungen in der Hochenergiephysik, LSF, Moodle
  • Übungen zur Physik II, LSF, Moodle
  • April 2017: 3rd BCD International School on High Energy Physics, Cargèse, Frankreich
  • Seit SoSe 2017: Lehrstuhlversuch "Analyse von ATLAS-Daten"
• WiSe 2016/17:
  • Einführung in die Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik, LSF, Moodle
  • Übungen zur Physik I, LSF, Moodle
• SoSe 2016:
  • Übung zur Teilchenphysik II, LSF
  • Heavy (quark) physics, from charm to top and Heavy-Ions, LSF
• WiSe 2015/16:
  • Teilchenphysik I, LSF
  • Übungen zur Einführung in die Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik, LSF
• SoSe 2015:
  • Seminar zur Dunklen Materie, LSF
  • Übung zu Introduction to hadron collider physics, LSF
• WiSe 2014/15:
  • A reading course on top-quark physics, LSF