Biography
Manuel Franco Sevilla did his undergraduate studies at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid and earned his PhD from Stanford University. During his PhD he worked on the BaBar experiment at SLAC where he found evidence for an excess of B→D(*)τν decays that challenges the Standard Model’s fundamental principle of lepton universality. As a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, he performed searches for Supersymmetry and worked on the upgrade of the Cathode Strip Chambers in the CMS muon system. Currently at LHCb, his research focuses on flavor physics, particularly searches for lepton universality violation, as well as the development of the readout electronics for the Upstream Tracker detector.
Research
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Notable Publications:
- G. Ciezarek et al. “A Challenge to Lepton Universality in B Meson Decays”. Nature 546 (2017), 227–233. http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01766
- CMS Collaboration. “Search for Supersymmetry in pp Collisions at the Single-Lepton Final State Using the Sum of Masses of Large-Radius Jets”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119.15 (2017), 151802. http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04673
- BABAR Collaboration. “Evidence for an excess of B→ D(*)τν decays”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012), 101802. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5442
News
- Manuel Franco Sevilla Receives Junior Faculty Award
- (Possibly) Breaking the Standard Model, One Lepton-universality-violating Decay at a Time
- Beyond Higgs: The Search for New Particles That Could Solve Mysteries of the Universe
- UMD Team Leads a New Test of Universality of Leptons at the LHCb Experiment
- Intriguing New Result Announced by the LHCb Experiment at CERN
- UMD Physicists Contribute to New B Meson Finding
- LHCb Experiment Discovers CP Violation in the Charm Quark System
- Manuel Franco Sevilla Joins UMD Physics