Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

The future of Particle Physics Prof. Jon Butterworth Professor Butterworth is a physics professor at UCL who works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. He previously worked on the HERA electron-proton collider in Hamburg. He won the Chadwick prize of the Institute of Physics in 2013 for his pioneering experimental and phenomenological […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

Dark Matter searches Dr Christopher McCabe Dr McCabe is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Physics at King’s College London. He obtained his DPhil in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2011. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

Supersymmetry searches Dr Sarah Williams As a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, Dr Williams’ research focuses on searches for new physics beyond the standard model, including models that predict extra spatial dimensions in the universe and those that could help explain what dark matter is made of. Her career in particle physics was […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

The decay of the b quark and the new physics Dr Harry Cliff Dr Harry Cliff is a particle physicist based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge who works on the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN, near Geneva. Dr Cliff’s research involves searching for signs of new […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

Neutrino physics Dr Teppei Katori Dr Katori is a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He obtained his PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and after doing a postdoc at MIT he came to the UK for his current position. He has a wide interest in physics, from nuclear physics and particle physics […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

New physics with the muon – the anomalous muon magnetic moment Dr Gavin Hesketh Dr Hesketh is an associate professor of physics at University College London. As an experimental particle physicist, his research is focused on the search for physics beyond the standard model. With a background in the collider energy frontier, he now works […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

The standard model: its successes and limitations Dr Mika Vesterinen Dr. Vesterinen is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He completed both his degree (2007) and PhD at the University of Manchester (2011). His thesis was on a measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum distribution and of the ZZ and WZ […]