Dr. Thomas Latham

Research

I am an Associate Professor (Research Focussed) in the Elementary Particle Physics Group here at Warwick.

I work on the LHCbLink opens in a new window experiment, based at CERN.
My principal activity is the analysis of 3-body decays of b-hadrons to both charmless and open-charm final states. I served as convener of the charmless b-hadron decays physics working group from January 2015 to March 2017. I am currently convener of the Amplitude Analysis Forum (since September 2024).
I also work on the Vertex Locator sub-detector where I am the software coordinator and am also responsible for the detector geometry description in the simulation software. I also take on-call "piquet" shifts during data-taking periods.
I have previously held the responsibility for coordinating the migration of the geometry description for the whole detector to use the DD4hep toolkit ready from LHC Run 3.

I also work on the BaBarLink opens in a new window experiment, which was based at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California and recorded data between 1999 and 2008.
I was convener of the Charmless Three-Body Hadronic B Decays Analysis Working Group from February 2007 to September 2009, and served as the UK representative on the Speakers Bureau from October 2012 to April 2014.

I am also responsible for the maintenance and development of the EvtGenLink opens in a new window and Laura++Link opens in a new window software packages that are used throughout the high energy physics community.

Teaching

I teach a graduate course on Software Development with C++ in conjunction with colleagues at the University of Birmingham and University of Bristol, within the MPAGSLink opens in a new window graduate programme. The module information page for this course can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

In recent years the course has been rewritten to incorporate the C++11, C++14, and C++17 standards and to include the git version control system, the CMake build automation tool, the Catch2 unit testing framework, and the Doxygen documentation generation tool.

I also teach the part of the PX457 course in High Performance Computing related to code optimisation and the OpenMP standard for concurrent programming. The module information page for this course can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

I also supervise an MPhys final-year research project in which the students analyse LHCb data to search for new decay modes of B mesons.

Contact Details:

Office:
PS0.02

E-Mail:
T.Latham@warwick.ac.uk

Write to:
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry,
CV4 7AL

Telephone:
+44 (0) 24 7652 4654