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School of Physics
and Astronomy
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
U.K.
I am a Professor in Experimental Particle Physics at the School of
Physics and Astronomy . These are the courses I am currently teaching:
My main research activity is on the LHCb experiment that has been data taking since 2009 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The aim of the experiment is to measure differences in the decay of beauty and charm hadrons with respect to their antiparticle partners (CP violation) and to search for new physics in their production and decay.
I also work in neutrino physics and the search for CP violation in the neutrino sector by comparing the rate of oscillations of neutrinos and antineutrinos. To achieve this, one needs accelerators that can produce huge numbers of neutrinos. I participate in the T2K experiment and work towards the future Hyper-Kamiokande experiment:
I have also worked in the design of novel neutrino beams, such as the Neutrino Factory, which produces neutrino beams from the decay of muons, and experiments to enable the technology for Neutrino Factories, such as MICE and the hadron experiment HARP:
I also worked on the NOMAD neutrino experiment:
First written 23rd January 2001; last modified 23rd January 2021