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Physics Elementary Particle Physics Group

LHCb

The University of Warwick joined the LHCb collaboration in November 2008. We receive, or have received, funding from a number of external sources including:

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 Marie Sklodowska Curie actions logo

A list of all the publications we have worked on is available under Physics Analysis.

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The Group

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People

  • Tim Gershon (Professor)
  • Tom Blake (Royal Society University Research Fellow)
  • Matt Kenzie (STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow)
  • Michal Kreps (Associate Professor)
  • Mika Vesterinen (STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow)
  • John Back (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Tom Latham (Senior Research Fellow)
  • Fernando Abudinén (Research Fellow)
  • Luis Miguel Garcia Martin (Research Fellow)
  • Miguel Ramos Pernas (Research Fellow)
  • Menglin Xu (Research Fellow)
  • Arnau Brossa Gonzalo (Ph.D. student)
  • Flavia Cicala (Ph.D. student)
  • Ross Hunter (Ph.D. student)
  • Andy Morris (Ph.D. student)
  • Tom Jones (Ph.D. student)
  • Bhagyashree Pagare (Ph.D. student)
  • Ahmed Abdelmotteleb (Ph.D. student)
  • Anja Beck (Ph.D. student)
  • Alex Ward (Ph.D. student)
  • Aidan Wiederhold (Ph.D. student)
  • Matthew Monk (Ph.D. student)
  • Lorenzo Paolucci (Ph.D. student)
  • Emir Muhammad (Ph.D. student)

Activities

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VELO

We are members of the VErtex LOcator subdetector group and authors of the VELO performance paper (arXiv:1405.7808). We are involved in the upgrade of the VELO subdetector, and planning for future upgrades to cope with ever higher data rates.

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Simulation

We are responsible for the EvtGen Monte Carlo generator within the experiment.

Trigger, data stripping and real time analysis

We are involved with the HLT2 (high-level trigger), data stripping and real time analysis activity.

TORCH

We are members of the TORCH collaboration, carrying out R&D for a novel time-of-flight detector that could provide particle identification information, to discriminate between charged pions, kaons and protons at low momentum.

Physics Analysis (more information here)

We have leading roles in the collaboration in measurements related to the angle γ (gamma) of the so-called Unitarity Triangle and of rare b hadron decays mediated by the b→sμ+μ− transition. We also have interests in several other areas, particularly in analyses involving Dalitz plot analysis. We hosted an LHCb UK workshop on Dalitz plot analysis in October 2009.

Openings

Information on job openings and Ph.D. positions in the Warwick EPP group can be found here. Please feel free to contact us (T dot J dot Gershon at warwick dot ac dot uk) for more information or to discuss possibilities.

Theses and Alumni

      • Paul Harrison (moved to ATLAS)
      • Mark Whitehead CERN-THESIS-2012-130 "Observation of the decay B0→D0K+K− with the LHCb detector at CERN", moved to a CERN fellowship
      • Matt Williams CERN-THESIS-2013-351 "Search for a wrong-flavour contribution to Bs→Dsπ decays and study of CP violation in Bs→DsK decays", moved to University of Birmingham
      • David Dossett CERN-THESIS-2013-299 "Measurement of the B0d,s→K∗±h∓ decay branching fractions at the LHCb experiment", moved to University of Melbourne
      • Matt Reid CERN-THESIS-2014-125 "Branching fraction measurements of B0(s)→J/ψK0Sh+h(′)− decays", took a job in the financial sector
      • Tomas Pilar CERN-THESIS-2014-302 "Measurement of the neutral D meson mixing parameters in D0→KSπ+π− decays", took a job in software
      • Rafael Silva Coutinho CERN-THESIS-2015-117 "Studies of charmless three-body b-hadron decays at LHCb", moved to University of Zurich, Switzerland
      • Daniel Craik CERN-THESIS-2015-285 "A measurement of the CKM angle γ from studies of B→DKπ Dalitz plots", moved to University of Edinburgh
      • Christoph Langenbruch (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Warwick) moved to take up Emmy Noether fellowship at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
      • Charlotte Wallace CERN-THESIS-2016-064 "Studies of excited D mesons in B meson decays", moved to University of Bristol and then to a civil service job
      • Ronnie Rera CERN-THESIS-2017-018 "Search for the decay B+→D*−K+π+", went into officer training with the US Air Force
      • Chris Everett CERN-THESIS-2016-322 "An angular analysis of Λb→Λμ+μ− decays at the LHCb experiment", moved to nuclear physics group at University of Liverpool
      • Jean Wicht (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow) returned to Switzerland and took a job in software
      • Daniel O'Hanlon CERN-THESIS-2017-184 "Studies of CP-violation in charmless three-body b-hadron decays", moved to Universita Bologna, Italy with an INFN fellowship
      • Wenbin Qian (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow) moved to take up an academic position at UCAS, China
      • Anton Poluektov (Postdoctoral research fellow) moved to take up an academic position at CPPM, Marseille
      • David Loh (Ph.D. student), left academic research
      • Abhijit Mathad CERN-THESIS-2018-237 "Search for CP violation in charmless three-body decays of strange-beauty baryons", moved to University of Zurich, Switzerland
      • Andrew Crocombe CERN-THESIS-2018-360 "Studies of rare decays using the LHCb experiment", took a job in software
      • Cayo Costa Sobral CERN-THESIS-2019-246 "Measurement of the relative branching fractions of charmless three-body B+ decays at LHCb", took a job in software
      • Olli Lupton (Postdoctoral research fellow) moved to EPFL, working for the Blue Brain project
      • Edward Millard CERN-THESIS-2020-306 "Studies of the rare decays B0 (Bs0) → π+π−μ+μ− with the LHCb experiment"
      • Niladri Sahoo (Research Fellow) moved to University of Birmingham

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