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I’m Louie, a particle physicist currently based in Clermont-Ferrand (France)
I am Dr. Louie Dartmoor Corpe, an experimental research fellow working on the ATLAS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider–the LHC, specialising in searches for exotic new particles. I currently manage the ATLAS Exotics working group, which involves project-managing some ~70 analyses involving ~550 researchers. I have previously also been involved in precision measurements of Standard Model interactions, and phenomenology projects such as CONTUR.
Activities
Searches for new particles
Detector R&D
Phenomenology
Outreach
Precision measurements
Seminars and Talks
Experience
Junior Professor at Université Clermont Auvergne
(2023 – present)
In 2023 I obtained a “Chaire Professeur Junior” (Junior Professor Chair) at Université Clermont Auvergne, in the Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont. This tenure-track position came with funding for two students and two post-docs over the initial four years, with which I will be developing my research programme on long-lived particle searches within ATLAS, and development of the High Granularity Timing Upgrade detector for the high-luminosity LHC. I currently lead the ATLAS Exotics working group, which comprises around 550 physicist searching for all sorts of new particles in the LHC collision data.
Senior research fellow at CERN
(2021 – 2023)
In 2021, I was awarded a prestigious CERN fellowship, and moved my young family to the Geneva area. As a CERN fellow, I’ve taken a leading role in the development of a new detector–the High Granularity Timing Detector– which will be installed inside ATLAS during the next LHC shutdown. I’m also still heavily involved in data analysis: for example, I currently lead a team of about 70 physicists searching for the most unusual new-physics signatures, including long-lived particles.
Post-doctoral research associate at UCL
(2017 – 2021)
After my PhD, I switched to the ATLAS experiment, and began working on searches for exotic long-lived particles alongside precision measurements of standard model processes. My technical work was on Monte Carlo event generation. I also helped to design and build the powerful CONTUR analysis re-interpretation tool.
PhD student at Imperial College
(2013 – 2017)
As a PhD student, I worked on the CMS experiment at CERN. CMS is the counterpart experiment to ATLAS, operating at the opposite side of the LHC ring. I worked on the analysis of Higgs bosons decaying into two photons, and the calibration of CMS’s Electromagnetic Calorimeter. Here’s my thesis.
Associate Account Manager at Adobe Systems Europe
(2011 – 2013)
In a former life, I worked for a digital marketing startup which was acquired by tech giant Adobe while I worked there. Those days are behind me now!
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