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Prof. Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling

Prof. Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling

Prof. Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling

ZHAW School of Engineering
Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 69 55
frank-peter.schilling@zhaw.ch

Personal profile

Management role

  • dep. Head of Centre, Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
  • Head, Group "Intelligent Vision Systems" at CAI

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Lecturer and Group Leader, Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
Adjunct Professor, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
Head, Continuing Education at CAI
Academic coordinator, PhD Programme in Data Science (with Univ. Zurich)
Research focus: Computer Vision / MLOps
Member of breakout group DIZH fellowships, ZHAW digital

Homepage: fpschill.github.io
Research Group: www.zhaw.ch/en/engineering/institutes-centres/cai/intelligent-vision-systems-group/

www.zhaw.ch/en/engineering/institutes-centres/cai/

Professional development teaching

Expertise and research interests

Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Physics

Educational background

Adjunct Professor, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), 2022
IPMA Certification in Project Management, 2015
Doctorate in Physics, University of Heidelberg, 2001

Professional milestones

- Senior Scientist, CERN & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Geneva (CH)
- Research Fellow, CERN, Geneva (CH)
- Research Scientist, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg (DE)

Membership of networks

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Books and monographs, peer-reviewed
Conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Other publications

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

See also: fpschill.github.io/publications/

Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations

Selected most important publications:

Journal Publications:

[1] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the mass difference between top quark and antiquark in pp collisions at $sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV,” Phys. Lett. B, vol. 770, pp. 50–71, 2017, doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.04.028.

[2] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Evidence for the direct decay of the 125 GeV Higgs boson to fermions,” Nature Phys., vol. 10, p. 557, 2014, doi.org/10.1038/nphys3005.

[3] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks,” Phys. Rev., vol. D89, p. 012003, 2014, doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003.

[4] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV in pp collisions at $sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 8 TeV,” JHEP, vol. 1306, p. 081, 2013, doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2013)081.

[5] S. Chatrchyan et al., “A New Boson with a Mass of 125 GeV Observed with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider,” Science, vol. 338, p. 1569, 2012, doi.org/10.1126/science.1230816.

[6] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC,” Phys.Lett., vol. B716, pp. 30–61, 2012, doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021.

[7] F.-P. Schilling, “Top Quark Physics at the LHC: A Review of the First Two Years,” Int. J. Mod. Phys., vol. A27, no. 17, p. 1230016, 2012, doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x12300165.

[8] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel cross section in pp collisions at $sqrt{s}=7$ TeV,” JHEP, vol. 1212, p. 035, 2012, doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2012)035.

[9] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Inclusive and differential measurements of the tt̄ charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV,” Phys.Lett., vol. B717, pp. 129–150, 2012, doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.028.

[10] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV,” Phys.Lett., vol. B709, pp. 28–49, 2012, doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.01.078.

[11] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the tt̄ Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at 7 TeV in Lepton + Jets Events Using b-quark Jet Identification,” Phys.Rev., vol. D84, p. 092004, 2011, doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.092004.

[12] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the t-channel single top quark production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV,” Phys.Rev.Lett., vol. 107, p. 091802, 2011, doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.091802.

[13] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the t t-bar production cross section and the top quark mass in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s) =7 TeV,” JHEP, vol. 7, p. 049, 2011, doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2011)049.

[14] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Measurement of the Top-antitop Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the Kinematic Properties of Events with Leptons and Jets,” Eur. Phys. J., vol. C71, p. 1721, 2011, doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1721-3.

[15] V. Khachatryan et al., “First Measurement of the Cross Section for Top-Quark Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at $sqrt{s}=7$ TeV,” Phys.Lett., vol. B695, pp. 424–443, 2011, doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.11.058.

[16] S. Chatrchyan et al., “Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker during Commissioning with Cosmic Rays,” JINST, vol. 5, p. T03009, 2010, doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/5/03/T03009.

[17] W. Adam et al., “Alignment of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker during standalone Commissioning,” JINST, vol. 4, p. T07001, 2009, doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/4/07/T07001.

[18] W. Adam et al., “The CMS tracker operation and performance at the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge,” JINST, vol. 3, p. P07006, 2008, doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/3/07/P07006.

[19] R. Adolphi et al., “The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC,” JINST, vol. 3, p. S08004, 2008, doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004.

[20] G. L. Bayatian et al., “CMS technical design report, volume II: Physics performance,” J. Phys., vol. G34, pp. 995–1579, 2007, doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/34/6/S01.

[21] V. Karimaki, T. Lampen, and F.-P. Schilling, “Track-based alignment of composite detector structures,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 53, pp. 3830–3833, 2006, doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2006.884384.

[22] A. Aktas et al., “Measurement and QCD analysis of the diffractive deep- inelastic scattering cross-section at HERA,” Eur. Phys. J., vol. C48, pp. 715–748, 2006, doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0035-3.

[23] A. Aktas et al., “Diffractive deep-inelastic scattering with a leading proton at HERA,” Eur. Phys. J., vol. C48, pp. 749–766, 2006, doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0046-0.

[24] C. Adloff et al., “Measurement of inclusive jet cross-sections in photoproduction at HERA,” Eur. Phys. J., vol. C29, pp. 497–513, 2003, doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2003-01262-9.

[25] A. Aktas et al., “Diffractive photoproduction of J/ψ mesons with large momentum transfer at HERA,” Phys. Lett., vol. B568, pp. 205–218, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2003.06.056.

[26] C. Adloff et al., “Search for odderon-induced contributions to exclusive pi0 photoproduction at HERA,” Phys. Lett., vol. B544, pp. 35–43, 2002, doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02479-6.

[27] C. Adloff et al., “A measurement of the t dependence of the helicity structure of diffractive rho meson electroproduction at HERA,” Phys. Lett., vol. B539, pp. 25–39, 2002, doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02035-X.

[28] C. Adloff et al., “Energy flow and rapidity gaps between jets in photoproduction at HERA,” Eur. Phys. J., vol. C24, pp. 517–527, 2002, doi.org/10.1007/s10052-002-0988-9.

[29] C. Adloff et al., “Diffractive jet production in deep inelastic e⁺p collisions at HERA,” Eur. Phys. J., vol. C20, pp. 29–49, 2001, doi.org/10.1007/s100520100634.

Proceedings:

[30] F.-P. Schilling, “Measurements of the Top Quark Pair-Production Cross Section,” in 23rd Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, 2013, vol. 49, p. 04001, doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134904001

[31] F.-P. Schilling, “Top Quark Studies with the first CMS Data,” in 21st Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 2010 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/1010.2393

[32] J. Campbell, J. Huston, P. Nadolsky, F.-P. Schilling, P. Uwer, and J. Weng, “Common Ntuple Output format for NLO Calculations,” in 9th Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France, 2009 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/1003.1241

[33] F.-P. Schilling, “QCD and Top Quark Physics at the LHC,” in 4th Intl. Conference on Physics at the LHC, Split, Croatia, 2008, vol. LHC2008, p. 047, doi.org/10.22323/1.055.0047

[34] F.-P. Schilling, “Early Electroweak and Top Quark Physics with CMS,” in 15th Intl. Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2007), Munich, Germany, 2007, pp. 447–450, doi.org/10.3204/proc07-01/61

[35] F.-P. Schilling, “Track Based Alignment in CMS,” in 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007, doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2007-004.181

[36] P. Arce, O. Buchmuller, F. P. Schilling, I. Vila, and M. Weber, “Introduction to the CMS contribution,” in 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007, doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2007-004.173.

[37] O. Buchmuller and F. P. Schilling, “Status and commissioning of the CMS experiment,” in BEAUTY 2006, Oxford, UK, 2007, vol. 170, pp. 264–272, doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.05.029

[38] F.-P. Schilling, “Track reconstruction and alignment with the CMS silicon tracker,” in 33rd Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2006), Moscow, Russia, 2006 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610005

[39] L. Barbone et al., “Impact of CMS silicon tracker misalignment on track and vertex reconstruction,” in Workshop on Tracking in High Multiplicity Environments (TIME 2005), Zurich, Switzerland, 2006, vol. A566, pp. 45–49, doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.041.

[40] F.-P. Schilling, “Diffractive DIS cross sections and parton distributions,” in 33rd intl. Conference on high energy physics (ICHEP 2006), moscow, russia, 2006, doi.org/10.1142/9789812790873_0113

[41] F.-P. Schilling, “Prospects for measuring B_(s) → μμ with the CMS detector,” in 10th Intl. Conference on B Physics at Hadron Machines (BEAUTY 2005), Assisi, Italy, 2006, vol. 156, pp. 114–118, doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.03.062

[42] F.-P. Schilling, “DPDF: A Library for Diffractive Parton Distributions,” in HERA and the LHC: A Workshop on the Implications of HERA for LHC Physics, CERN and DESY, 2004-2005, 2005, p. 511 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0601013

[43] P. R. Newman and F.-P. Schilling, “HERA diffractive structure function data and parton distributions,” in HERA and the LHC: A Workshop on the Implications of HERA for LHC Physics, CERN and DESY, 2004-2005, 2005, p. 488 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0511032

[44] P. Laycock, P. Newman, and F. P. Schilling, “HERA diffractive structure function data and parton distributions,” in 13th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2005), Madison, USA, 2005, vol. 792, pp. 466–469, doi.org/10.1063/1.2122079.

[45] F.-P. Schilling, “Diffractive final states with the H1 detector at HERA,” in Intl. Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2003), Aachen, Germany, 2004, vol. C33, pp. s530–s532, doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-03-1680-9

[46] A. Bruni, M. Diehl, and F.-P. Schilling, “Summary of working group B: Diffraction and vector mesons,” in 12th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2004), Slovakia (DESY-04-201), 2004 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0410106

[47] F.-P. Schilling, “Inclusive diffraction at HERA,” in 31st Intl. Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2002), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003, vol. 117, pp. 403–407, doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5632(03)90578-0

[48] F.-P. Schilling, “NLO QCD fit to H1 diffractive DIS data,” in 10th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2002), Cracow, Poland, 2002, vol. B33, pp. 3419–3424 [Online]. Available: www.actaphys.uj.edu.pl/R/33/11/3419

[49] F.-P. Schilling, “Diffractive jet production in DIS: Testing QCD factorisation,” in 9th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2001), Bologna, Italy, 2002, vol. 21, pp. 830–835, doi.org/10.1142/9789812778345_0131

[50] F.-P. Schilling, “Hard Diffraction: Results from H1 at HERA,” in Riken BNL Research Center Workshop (Vol. 34): High Energy QCD - Beyond the Pomeron, Upton, New York, USA, BNL-52641, 2001, doi.org/10.2172/788891.

[51] F.-P. Schilling, “Diffractive dijet and 3-jet electroproduction at HERA,” in 8th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2000), Liverpool, UK, 2000, pp. 543–546 [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0012065

[52] F.-P. Schilling, “Diffractive dijet production at HERA,” in 7th Intl. Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 1999), Zeuthen, Germany, 1999, vol. 79, pp. 287–289, doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00700-8.

Conference Papers and Technical Reports:

[53] CMS Collaboration, “Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with W or Z bosons, and decaying to bottom quarks,” CMS PAS HIG-13-012, 2013 [Online]. Available: cds.cern.ch/record/1546801

[54] CMS Collaboration, “Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with W or Z bosons, and decaying to bottom quarks,” CMS PAS HIG-12-044, 2012 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1493618

[55] CMS Collaboration, “Combination of top pair production cross sections in pp collisions at 7 TeV and comparisons with theory,” CMS PAS TOP-11-001, 2011 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1336491

[56] CMS Collaboration, “Selection of Top-Like Events in the Dilepton and Lepton-plus-Jets Channels in Early 7 TeV Data,” CMS PAS TOP-10-004, 2010 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1280706

[57] CMS Collaboration, “Algorithms for b Jet Identification in CMS,” CMS PAS BTV-09-001, 2009 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1194494

[58] CMS Collaboration, “Plans for an early Measurement of the tt̄ Cross Section in the Electron-plus-Jets Channel at $sqrt{s} = 10$ TeV,” CMS PAS TOP-09-004, 2009 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1194520

[59] CMS Collaboration, “Prospects for the first Measurement of the tt̄ Cross Section in the Muon-plus-Jets Channel at $sqrt{s}$ = 10 TeV with the CMS Detector,” CMS PAS TOP-09-003, 2009 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1194519

[60] CMS Collaboration, “Observability of Top Quark Pair Production in the Semileptonic Muon Channel with the first 10/pb of CMS Data,” CMS PAS TOP-08-005, 2008 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1198690

[61] CMS Collaboration, “Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section with L=100/pb in Dileptonic Final States using the CMS Detector,” CMS PAS TOP-08-002, 2008 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1198688

[62] T. Lampen, N. De Filippis, F.-P. Schilling, A. Schmidt, and M. Weber, “Comprehensive set of misalignment scenarios for the CMS tracker,” CMS Note 2008/029, 2008 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1166326

[63] CMS Collaboration, “Impact of Tracker Misalignment on the CMS b-Tagging Performance,” CMS PAS BTV-07-003, 2008 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1198691

[64] CMS Collaboration, “CMS Computing, Software and Analysis Challenge in 2006 (CSA06) Summary,” CMS Note 2007/006, 2007 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1027030

[65] M. Albrow et al., “Prospects for diffractive and forward physics at the LHC,” CERN LHCC 2006-039, 2006 [Online]. Available: cds.cern.ch/record/1005180

[66] G. L. Bayatian et al., “CMS physics: Technical design report, Vol. 1: Software and Detector Performance,” CERN LHCC 2006-001, 2006 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/922757

[67] P. Vanlaer et al., “Impact of CMS silicon tracker misalignment on track and vertex reconstruction,” CMS Note 2006/029, 2006 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/927378

[68] J. D’Hondt et al., “Fitting of event topologies with external kinematic constraints in CMS,” CMS Note 2006/023, 2006 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/926540

[69] V. Karimaki, T. Lampen, and F.-P. Schilling, “The HIP algorithm for track based alignment and its application to the CMS pixel detector,” CMS Note 2006/018, 2006 [Online]. Available: cdsweb.cern.ch/record/926537

[70] H1 Collaboration, “Diffractive D* Meson Production in Deep Inelastic ep Collisions at HERA,” Paper 6-0178 subm. to ICHEP 2004, Beijing, China, 2004 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-04-111.long.html

[71] H1 Collaboration, “Dijets in Diffractive Photoproduction and Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA,” Paper 6-0177 subm. to ICHEP 2004, Beijing, China, 2004 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-04-113.long.html

[72] T. Alexopoulos et al., “Electron deuteron scattering with HERA, a letter of intent for an experimental programme with the H1 detector,” DESY, DESY-03-194, 2003 [Online]. Available: inspirehep.net/record/636853

[73] H1 Collaboration, “Measurement of the Inclusive Cross Section for Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering at High Q2,” Paper 6-0175 subm. to ICHEP 2004, Beijing, China, 2004 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-03-011.long.html

[74] H1 Collaboration, “Comparison at NLO between Predictions from QCD Fits to F2D and and Diffractive Final State Observables at HERA,” Paper 113 subm. to EPS-HEP 2003, Aachen, Germany, 2003 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-03-015.long.html

[75] H1 Collaboration, “Dijets in Diffractive Photoproduction at HERA,” Paper 087 subm. to EPS-HEP 2003, Aachen, Germany, 2003 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-02-113.long.html

[76] H1 Collaboration, “Measurement and NLO DGLAP QCD Interpretation of Diffractive Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA,” Paper 980 subm. to ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-02-012.long.html

[77] H1 Collaboration, “Measurement of the Diffractive DIS Cross Section at low Q2,” Paper 981 subm. to ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-02-112.long.html

[78] H1 Collaboration, “Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function F2D(3)(beta,Q2,xpom) at HERA,” Paper 808 subm. to EPS-HEP 2001, Budapest, Hungary and paper 500 subm. to Lepton-Photon 2001, Rome, Italy, 2001 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-01-111.long.html

[79] H1 Collaboration, “Diffractive Jet-Production in Deep-Inelastic e+p Collisions at HERA,” Paper 960 subm. to ICHEP 2000, Osaka, Japan, 2000 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/publications/htmlsplit/H1prelim-00-014.long.html

[80] H1 Collaboration, “Diffractive Dijet Electroproduction at HERA,” Paper 157ae subm. to EPS-HEP 1999, Tampere, Finland, 1999 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/h1/www/psfiles/confpap/eps99/99-131-schilling-paper.ps

Theses:

[81] F.-P. Schilling, “Diffractive Jet Production in Deep-Inelastic e+p Collisions at HERA,” PhD thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2001 [Online]. Available: doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00001440

[82] F.-P. Schilling, “Untersuchung von 2-Jet-Ereignissen in der diffraktiven tiefinelastischen Streuung mit dem H1-Detektor,” Master’s thesis, University of Heidelberg, 1998 [Online]. Available: www-h1.desy.de/psfiles/theses/h1th-132.ps

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