Aidan Robson

Lecturer

SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

CERN
104/1-C17
CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
MS318 (Glasgow)
PO Box 500
Batavia, IL 60510, USA

• Email: aidan.robson@glasgow.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 141 330 8082 (in US: +1 630 840 2147; at CERN +41 22 76 73346)
• Fax: +44 141 330 5881
• Secretary: +44 141 330 4702 (Valerie Flood)
• Office: Room 483, Kelvin Building

I am a particle physicist working on collider experiments at the high energy frontier as a member of the CDF and ATLAS collaborations at Fermilab and CERN. My interests are in precision measurements in QCD/electroweak physics and in electroweak symmetry breaking, searching for the Higgs boson and new physics using advanced analysis techniques. I was until recently co-Head of Offline for the CDF experiment and I have been convener of the W/Z working group at CDF. I have interests in high-performance computing and in possible future linear colliders. I currently hold a lectureship at the University of Glasgow. Before coming to Glasgow in 2004 I studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and in Oxford.

Academic Qualifications: MA, MSci (Cambridge), DPhil (Oxford)
Professional Accreditations: CPhys, FInstP

Academic Staff Database Entry

Jump to: Outreach, Teaching, Research

PhD opportunities

January 2012: I expect to offer a PhD studentship on the ATLAS experiment to start in October 2012, to work on Higgs boson measurements in the ZH and WH associated production modes, related standard model physics, and the trigger. Applications for an STFC funded studentship, or for a University or SUPA scholarship, are welcome. Please contact me straight away to register interest, and also see the main PPE group postgraduate study page.

Outreach

I am Outreach Coordinator for the PPE group. I run the Glasgow Particle Physics Masterclass and have given many Saturday Morning masterclasses in the RSE series as well as talks to school groups and at the Glasgow Science Centre, participating in the Glasgow University Science Festival, CPD for Scottish physics teachers, and giving evening classes in physics for DACE.

• May 2012 Cafe Scientifique
• October 2011 Times Educational Supplement Masterclass and CERN visit feature

Teaching

IBLS2 Physical Principles of Biological Processes, Bioenergetics
P4 Atomic Systems
P1 Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Matter
P2 Laboratories
P1 Tutorials
P3 Supervisions
SUPA Particle Physics Discussion Classes

Administration:
IBLS2 Course coordinator
Physics & Astronomy Staff-Student Liaison Committees Secretary
Physics & Astronomy Teaching Committee Member
Physics & Astronomy Honours Exam Committee Moderator
University Senate Member

Past teaching:
EE1 Thermal Physics
P1X/Y Laboratories
P3 Computing Laboratory (coordinator)

Research

Full paper listing from Inspire. (Or from ResearcherID.)

Explanations for non-particle physicists

ZZ resonance search Fermilab Today "Result of the Week" [January 2012]
Higgs search Fermilab Today "Result of the Week" [July 2010]
First bounds on the Higgs boson from hadron colliders Physical Review "Viewpoint" [February 2010]
Higgs search Fermilab Today "Result of the Week" [April 2007]
Inclusive W and Z cross-sections Fermilab Today "Result of the Week" [April 2004]

Selected publications

• Search for high-mass resonances decaying into ZZ in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV Phys. Rev D 85 012008 (2012) (arXiv)
  
• Measurement of the ZZ production cross section and limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7TeV with the ATLAS detector Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 041804 (2012)
  
• Inclusive Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in the WW Decay Channel Using the CDF II Detector
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 061803 (2010)
  - and companion paper:
• Combination of Tevatron Searches for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the W+W- Decay Mode
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 061802 (2010) *PRL Cover Story* *Spires TopCite 100+*
  
• Search for a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two W Bosons
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 021802 (2009)
  
• Measurements of Inclusive W and Z cross sections in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV
  J. Phys. G 34 2457 (2007) *Spires TopCite 100+*
• Data Processing Model for the CDF Experiment
  IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 53 2897 (2006)
• First Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections from Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 091803 (2005) *Spires TopCite 100+*

Recent conference talks

• Hadron Collider Physics HCP11, Paris, 14-18 November 2011
  Diboson Physics at the Tevatron (on behalf of the CDF and D0 Collaborations)
• TevFest, Manchester, 11 November 2011
  Standard Model Higgs
• EPS HEP 2011, `International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics', Grenoble, 21-27 July 2011
  Search for High-mass ZZ Resonances (on behalf of the CDF Collaboration)
• Aspen 2011, `New Data from the Energy Frontier', Aspen, Colorado, 13-18 February 2011
  Electroweak Physics at the Tevatron (on behalf of the CDF and D0 Collaborations)
• Institute of Physics HEPP/APP Annual conference, London, 29-31 March 2010
  Latest Collider Results
• ICHEP 2008, Philadelphia, 30 July-5 August 2008
  Electroweak Cross-sections and Widths (on behalf of the CDF and D0 Collaborations)
• Higgs-Maxwell Workshop 2008, Edinburgh, 13 February 2008
  Heavy Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron
• DIS 2007, Munich, 15-20 April 2007
  Constraints on PDFs from CDF (on behalf of the CDF Collaboration)

External committees

• STFC Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) member, 2012-13

Organising committees

• SUSSP International Summer School 2012, Hadron Collider Physics
• Institute of Physics Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference, NPPD 2011
• Young Experimentalists and Theorists Institute, YETI06, Durham