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Name

Xavier Rouby

Position

Former member
Member from September 2002 to July 2010
Current position: Founder & Director at Pfease (www.pfease.com)

Personal homepage

http://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/~rouby

Research statement

Research (PhD thesis) on gamma-gamma interactions.

Development of Silicon edgeless detectors for roman pots.
Co-author with Jérôme de Favereau of "Hector", a fast simulator for the transport of particles through beamlines.
Software developments on the triggers for the CMS Forward Physics Group with Séverine Ovyn.
Luminosity measurement with exclusive muon pairs in CMS. Observation of exclusive upsilon mesons in CMS.

Projects

Research directions:

Detector commissioning, operation and data processing

Experiments and collaborations:

CMS

Non-active projects

Publications in IRMP

All my publications on Inspire

Number of publications as IRMP member: 17
Last 5 publications

2009

CP3-09-53: Stand-alone Cosmic Muon Reconstruction Before Installation of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker

CMS Tracker Collaboration (W. Adam et al.).

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial] [Full text]
Published in JINST 4:P05004,2009
Refereed paper. December 21.

CP3-09-52: Alignment of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker during stand-alone Commissioning.

W. Adam et al.

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial]
Published in JINST 4:T07001,2009
Refereed paper. December 21.

CP3-09-01: Delphes, a framework for fast simulation of a generic collider experiment

S. Ovyn and X.Rouby

[Abstract] [PDF] [Full text]
Full description of the Delphes framework. Software manual in appendix
January 7.

2008

CP3-08-74: Petal Integration for the CMS Tracker End Caps

T. Bergauer, et al.

[Full text]
CMS NOTE-2008/028. Public CMS note (internally peer-reviewed) about the construction of the CMS forward tracker.
Public experimental note. December 22.

CP3-08-70: The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

The CMS Collaboration

[Journal] [Full text]
The CMS Collaboration, "The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC", 2008 JINST 3 S08004, 361pp doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004.
Refereed paper. December 10.

More publications

2008

CP3-08-69: Silicon Strip Tracker Detector Performance with Cosmic Ray Data at the Tracker Integration Facility

J.-L. Bonnet, G. Bruno, B. De Callatay, B. Florins, A. Giammanco, G. Gregoire, Th. Keutgen, D. Kcira, V. Lemaitre, D. Michotte, O. Militaru, K. Piotrzkowski, L. Quertermont, V. Roberfroid, X. Rouby, D. Teyssier et al. (>100 authors)

[Full text]
W. Adam et al., "Silicon Strip Tracker Detector Performance with Cosmic Ray Data at the Tracker Integration Facility", CMS NOTE-2008/032.
Public experimental note. December 10.

CP3-08-68: The CMS tracker operation and performance at the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge

S. Assouak, J.-L. Bonnet, G. Bruno, B. de Callatay, S. de Visscher, D. Favart, B. Florins, E. Forton5, A. Giammanco, G. Gregoire, S. Kalinin, D. Kcira, Th. Keutgen, V. Lemaitre, D. Michotte, O. Militaru, S. Ovyn, K. Piotrzkowski, X. Rouby, D. Teyssier, O. Van der Aa et al. (> 100 authors)

[Journal] [Full text]
W. Adam et al., “The CMS tracker operation and performance at the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge”, 2008 JINST 3 P07006. doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/07/P07006.
G. Bruno co-editor
Refereed paper. December 10.

CP3-08-37: Luminosity determination by CMS using exclusive muon pairs with early data

X. Rouby, K. Piotrzkowski

[Full text]
CMS AN 2008/061, Internal note (password protected)
Private experimental note. July 18.

CP3-08-27: Tagging photon interactions at the LHC

Rouby, X.

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial]
Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 179–180 (2008) 202–210.
Contribution to the CERN workshop on high energy photon collisions at the LHC, April 2008.

Contribution to proceedings. June 28.

CP3-08-11: Forward Physics at the LHC

Xavier Rouby

[Abstract] [PDF]
Proceedings of Moriond QCD 2008.
Talk on behalf of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations.
CMS CR-2008/020
Contribution to proceedings. May 19.

CP3-08-07: Forward Physics Triggers

S. Ovyn, X. Rouby, J.J. Hollar for the CMS Forward Physics Group

[Full text]
Internal note CMS IN 2008/028 (password protected).
Private experimental note. February 28.

CP3-08-06: Exclusive γ γ → l+ l- and γ p → Y → l+ l- production

J.J. Hollar, S. Oyvn, X. Rouby for the CMS collaboration

[Full text]
Physics Analysis Summary [pdf], public summary of CP3-07-28
Public experimental note. February 26.

CP3-08-04: High energy photon interactions at the LHC

J. de Favereau et al.

[Abstract] [PDF] [Full text]
Submitted. See CP3-09-37.
January 28.

2007

CP3-07-28: Exclusive γ γ → l+ l- production

J. Hollar, S. Ovyn, X. Rouby

[Full text]
CMS AN-2007/032 (internal)
Private experimental note. October 22.

CP3-07-13: Hector, a fast simulator for the transport of particles in beamlines

J. de Favereau, X. Rouby, K. Piotrzkowski

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial] [Full text]
Published in JINST2:P09005,2007
Refereed paper. May 14.

CP3-07-11: Recent developments of CERN RD39 Cryogenic Tracking detectors Collaboration

X. Rouby for the RD39 Collaboration

[Journal] [Full text]
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Radiation Effects on Semiconductor Materials Detectors and Devices (Florence), NIM A 583 (2007) 99-103
Contribution to proceedings. March 19.

2006

CP3-06-17: Cryogenic detector modules and edgeless silicon sensors

X. Rouby, V. Eremin, S. Grohmann, J. Härkönen, Z. Li, P. Luukka, O. Militaru, T. Niinikoski, G.Nüssle, B. Perea Solano, K. Piotrzkowski, E. Tuovinen, E. Verbitskaya

[Journal] [Full text]
Proceedings of the RD05 Conference, October 2005. Nucl. Inst. & Meth. A570 (2007) 308-311
Contribution to proceedings. October 23.