An ATLAS paper I’ve been working on for about 2-3 years hit the arXiv today: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09168Just in time for the big ICHEP conference (the biggest conference in particle physics) which takes place in Prague from Wednesday this week! It is a follow-up to my previous search for pairs of exotic long-lived particles (see Searching forContinue reading “Long lived particles and their friends: a new step in the search programme”
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Exotics Convener
Some big news in this post! I can now officially say that I’ve been appointed to be the ATLAS experiment’s next Exotics Convener, starting October 1st 2024. To the un-initiated, this may sound like I am going to become some kind of unusual fruit collector. But in reality, this is an important scientific leadership roleContinue reading “Exotics Convener”
A measurement five years in the making
Towards the middle of my first post-doc, back in 2019, my then boss Jon asked me if I would join an exciting and ambitious measurement project which just needed a little extra push to be finished. The UCL PhD student working on it was graduating, and it seemed just a small injection of person powerContinue reading “A measurement five years in the making”
CHACAL: bringing France and South Africa closer together
I’m just about to travel back to Clermont-Ferrand after two weeks in South Africa, where my longtime colleague Deepak Kar and I were running a residential research school at University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. CHACAL was funded by the French CNRS’s France-Africa international cooperation programme, with an open call to organise a “summer school” inContinue reading “CHACAL: bringing France and South Africa closer together”
Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian translations!
New translations of Particle Physics for Babies have landed on the website! I’m vey happy that we now have translations of the book to Italian (🇮🇹), Portuguese (both 🇵🇹 and 🇧🇷 variants) and Hungarian (🇭🇺). This brings the total of 10 languages in which you can obtain the explanations for the book. It’s all possibleContinue reading “Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian translations!”
Just in Time
A new paper I was involved with came out today which documents some of the instrumental work that kept me busy during the two years I spent as a CERN fellow. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/18/05/P05005 The paper documents the performance of the tiny 1mm x 1mm sensors pictured above: they are called LGADs (low-gain avalanche diodes), and weContinue reading “Just in Time”
Recruiting my first post-doc
My new position at Clermont-Ferrand came with funding for two students and two post-doctoral research assistants. I am glad to say that today, I am opening applications for the first post-doc position. The info is here and the deadline is 13 March: https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2634296 The successful applicant will work on searches for long-lived particles in ATLAS,Continue reading “Recruiting my first post-doc”
Start of a new era!
Last week, I officially started a new job as a Junior Professor at the Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont. The lab is part of the Université Clermont Auvergne, in Clermont-Ferrand in France: a busy student town nestling on the edge of the stunning Chaine des Puys range of ancient volcanoes. Clermont-Ferrand is also the birthplaceContinue reading “Start of a new era!”
Spanish and Farsi translations for “Particle Physics for Babies”!
One of the nice features of Particle Physics for Babies is that it comes with downloadable captions, so that even if you are no expert in particle physics, you can explain the pictures with confidence. Upon release, we had the captions in English, with translations into French and German available (kindly provided by Dr NicolasContinue reading “Spanish and Farsi translations for “Particle Physics for Babies”!”
“Particle Physics for Babies” arrives at CERN
The wait is finally over! Particle Physics for Babies, the outreach book for newborns themed on high energy physics, has landed at the CERN gift shop, and is also available from the ATLAS secretariat. You can also order a copy from me, online here. I wrote the book on the last day of my parentalContinue reading ““Particle Physics for Babies” arrives at CERN”
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