Dr. Wasikul Islam

Dr. Wasikul Islam

Particle Physicist at Univ. of Wisconsin, CERN & SLAC

Publications

My Publications

I have been an author of 600+ peer-reviewed research papers as part of the ATLAS Collaboration and other projects.
You can explore my full publication record on Google Scholar, ORCID: 0000-0002-5624-5934, and INSPIRE-HEP Profile.

Below are selected research papers and ATLAS Notes where I made significant contributions:

A Few Selected Research Papers

  • Wasikul Islam, S.V. Chekanov - Compact Representation of Particle-Collision Events for Physics-Informed Machine Learning, 2026 (arXiv:2602.17563).
  • Wasikul Islam, Searches for Dijet Resonances with the ATLAS Detector, 2025 (ATL-PHYS-PROC-2025-120).
  • W. Islam, S.V. Chekanov, N. Luongo- New Physics Searches at the LHC through Event-based Anomaly Detection and Development of ADFilter Web-tool, 2025 (arXiv:2511.21869).
  • S.V. Chekanov, W. Islam, N. Luongo — Enhancing Sensitivity for Di-Higgs Boson Searches Using Anomaly Detection and Supervised Machine Learning Techniques, 2025 (arXiv:2504.12418)
  • Wasikul Islam — WIPUNet: A Physics-inspired Network with Weighted Inductive Biases for Image Denoising, 2025 (arXiv:2509.05662)
  • CEPC Study Group — CEPC Technical Design Report — Reference Detector, 2025 (arXiv:2510.05260)
  • Wasikul Islam — Searches for new physics with leptons using the ATLAS detector, 2024, (PoS(PIC2024)011)
  • ATLAS Collaboration — Search for new phenomena in two-body invariant mass distributions using unsupervised machine learning…, 2024 (PhysRevLett.132.081801)
  • S. Chekanov, W. Islam, R. Zhang, N. Luongo — ADFilter: A Web Tool for New Physics Searches with Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection, 2024 (arXiv:2409.03065)
  • ATLAS Collaboration — Search for vector-boson resonances decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark…, 2023 (arXiv:2308.08521)
  • ATLAS Collaboration — Search for new phenomena in multi-body invariant masses…, 2022 (JHEP07(2023)202)
  • Tulika Bose et al. — Snowmass Topical Report on Physics Beyond the Standard Model, 2022 (arXiv:2209.13128)
  • W. Islam — Increasing Multilingualism in ATLAS’ Science Communication, ICHEP2022 Proceedings, 2022. (PoS(ICHEP2022)973)
  • S.V. Chekanov, S. Darmora, W. Islam, C.E.M. Wagner, J. Zhang - Model-independent searches for new physics in multi-body invariant masses, 2021 (Universe 2021, 7(9), 333)
  • ATLAS Collaboration - Search for dijet resonances in events with an isolated charged lepton using √s=13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector, 2020 (JHEP 06 (2020) 151)
  • [In Review] W. Islam, A. Schwartzman — Primary Vertex Selection at the HL-LHC (ATL-COM-PHYS-2025-890)

Books & Others

  • Book: Memorial Volume for Tai Tsun Wu: A Pioneer of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, World Scientific Publishing, ISBN: 978-981-98-2190-7.
    Editors: Sau Lan Wu, Hung Cheng, Wasikul Islam, Barry McCoy, John Myers, Per Osland, Shaojun Sun.
  • Book: Stars are the Witness (in Bangla), Manan Publication, India, ISBN: 978-93-91027-20-9.
  • Translated Book: ATLAS Experiment Colouring Book in Bengali, translated by Wasikul Islam, authored by Katarina Anthony.
    (CDS Record)
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue “Symmetry and Asymmetry in Plasma and High Energy Physics” (to be published in 2026, currently open for submission) in the journal Symmetry. [Webpage link forthcoming]
  • Snowmass Proposal: S. Jana, W. Islam, A. Khanov – Probing New Physics with Boosted Di-Higgs Signal using Fat Jet Signature, SNOWMASS21-EF2_EF8-259 (for Snowmass 2021)
  • “Navigating Anomalies in the Pursuit of New Physics”, for the Wisconsin Initiative for Scientific Literacy, USA (2024).
  • “Excitements over restarting the LHC for its Run 3”, in the Physics E-Magazine 2022, Society of Physics Students, University of Kansas, USA.
  • “My Beautiful Days at CERN”, published in the CERN newsletter ALICE Matters, 2015.
  • “Mystery of TIME”, published in Physics Bulletin, Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, India (2014).