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Prof. Eluned Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the use of rare beauty decays to search for new fundamental particles at various mass scales and collision energies in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Prof. Smith’s work probes the limitations of the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes known fundamental particles and their interactions but fails to explain certain aspects of the universe, suggesting the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). In her research, she analyzes B hadron decays, particularly electroweak penguin decays, to provide sensitivity to BSM effects. She has developed novel high-dimensional fits to constrain properties of potential BSM signatures and is involved in upgrades to the LHCb detector. Her academic journey includes a PhD from Imperial College London, followed by a post-doc at RWTH Aachen with an Ambizione Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2021, she took leadership of the Rare Decays physics program for the LHCb experiment.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Researches and instructs in fundamental particle physics and related fields.