Dr. John Back
Senior Research Fellow with a range of research interests:
Flavour physics with the LHCb experiment
- Maintenance of the EvtGen software package that is used to generate simulation samples of heavy flavour particle decays, such as B and D mesons, 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
- RF and thermal modelling simulations for the Vertex Locator (VELO) upgrade efforts using CST and Comsol software
Neutrino and accelerator (targetry) physics
- DUNE/LBNF targetry: physics studies of the graphite target to optimise the muon neutrino flux within engineering design constraints, using GEANT4 and FLUKA software
- NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN: calibration and analysis of the LBNF replica graphite target data
- Muon Collider: supervisor of PhD student on physics studies for the muon collider target (tungsten powder jet option)
- DUNE Near Detector 3D reconstruction: maintenance of the LArRecoND Pandora software package
Previous research
- Front End Test Stand: test beam facility at Rutherford Lab to research the technologies for future high intensity proton accelerators; design, simulation and commissioning of the Low Energy Beam Transport focusing system
- Targetry studies for the Neutrino Factory
- Hidden sector physics with SHiP: muon shield magnetic fields and targetry studies
- LACE software package: C++ implementation of Local Principal Curves that can identify features in 3D images of points and curves
- ACTIVIA software package: C++ framework for calculating cross-sections as well as production and decay yields for cosmogenic activation studies, e.g. backgrounds in dark matter experiments
- Charmless B decays and Dalitz plot analyses for the BaBar experiment.
Office: Humanities H1.08
E-Mail: J.J.Back at warwick.ac.uk
Phone: 44 (0) 24 765 23694