Senior Research Fellow with a range of research interests:

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Flavour physics and CP violation with the LHCb experiment

• Maintenance of the EvtGen software that is used to generate simulation samples of B decays for understanding experimental data
• Analysis of Lambda_b to J/psi Lambda and Lambda_b to mu mu Lambda decays
• Dalitz plot analysis of charmless three-body decays; original co-author of the Laura++ Dalitz plot fitting software
• Thermal modelling work for the Vertex Locator upgrade effort using COMSOL

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Neutrino and accelerator physics

• DUNE/LBNF targetry: proton beam and target simulation work optimising the muon neutrino flux using the Geant4 and Fluka software packages
• Developing Pandora reconstruction software for 3D detector technology for the AIDAinnova project
• Hidden sector physics with SHiP: muon shield magnetic fields simulation and targetry studies

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Previous research

• Front End Test Stand: test beam facility being constructed at Rutherford Lab to research the technologies for future high brightness/intensity proton accelerators; design, simulation and commissioning of the three-solenoid low energy beam transport focusing system
• Targetry studies for the Neutrino Factory
• LACE software package: C++ implementation of local principal curves that can identify features in 3d images of points and/or curves
• ACTIVIA software package: C++ implementation of calculating cross-sections and production/decay yields for cosmogenic activitation studies (e.g. backgrounds in dark matter experiments)
• Charmless B decays and Dalitz plot analyses for the BaBar experiment

 

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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Contact Details:

Office: P444
Telephone:
44 (0) 2476523694
Fax:
44 (0)2476150897
E-Mail:
J.J.Back@warwick.ac.uk