Anastasia Merzlaya

Postdoctoral Fellow - High Energy Physics
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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 24 Fysikkbygningen 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1048 Blindern 0316 Oslo

Academic interests

My primary research interests are in search for open charm particles at the SPS energy regime. I am a member of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration at CERN and I have been involved in the Open Charm project of the NA61/SHINE experiment since it's early stages, when the new device called Vertex Detector was in the development stage. In 2016-2018 NA61/SHINE collected Xe+La and Pb+Pb data, and within my PhD project I obtained first direct signal of D0 mesons, which became possible due to very precise spatial resolution of the Vertex Detector. This result led to the extension of the Open Charm programme and it is panned to take large set of data in 2021-2023. Analysis of these data should allow more detailed study of charm yield at low energies. Currently I am involved in many tasks preceding analysis of the upcoming data: the supervision of the detector during data taking, calibration of the data, selection of the events, performing full simulation chain, etc.

Background

2016 - 2021  PhD 
Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Thesis: Open charm measurements at the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS with the new Vertex Detector
Supervisor: Dr hab P. Staszel 

2014-2016  Master of Physics
Magnetic resonance and its applications, Department of Nuclear-Physics Research Methods, Faculty of Physics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia 
Thesis: Study of the $\Lambda$-hyperons yield in Pb+Pb collisions at high energies
Supervisor: Prof Dr V.P. Kondratiev 

2010-2014 Bachelor of Physics
Nuclear Physics, Department of Nuclear-Physics Research Methods, Faculty of Physics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Thesis: Research into the influence of radiation accidents on the environment
Supervisor: Dr V.A. Sergienko

Publications

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