Andrew Whitbeck

Dr. Andrew Whitbeck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas Tech University since 2018. His research focuses on high-energy particle physics, particularly at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with expertise in dark matter detection, supersymmetry searches, and detector development. He is a core member of the CMS collaboration and leads detector projects like the LDMX experiment.

Education: PhD in Physics (Johns Hopkins, 2013); BS Physics and BA Mathematics (University of Rochester, 2007).

Research interests include: Higgs boson properties, collider-based dark matter searches, and advanced detector technologies. He pioneered matrix element tools for Higgs resonance identification and contributed to phase-1 CMS upgrades. Current projects involve building silicon modules for CMS endcap calorimeters and designing the LDMX detector using scintillators and SiPMs.

Publications highlight contributions to SUSY searches, photon veto techniques, and detector quality control via machine learning. He actively participates in science outreach, including school visits and CMS educational initiatives.

He leads detector development teams at Texas Tech and collaborates with SLAC National Lab on LDMX. No explicit awards listed, but his work is recognized through extensive CMS co-authorships (~800 papers).