Particle Physics Experiment Group

We seek an understanding of the fundamental particles of nature and the interactions (forces) governing their behaviour. In particular, from understanding the symmetries and conserved quantities present in the universe, we seek to explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter (study of CP violation at BaBar/LHCb), and mechanisms of symmetry breaking (ATLAS/ILC) which lead to the creation of mass. Extensive distributed Grid computing (GridPP) will be used to store and analyse the tens of petabytes of data that will be produced at the LHC.

The group comprises of six academic faculty (Phil Clark, Peter Clarke, Victoria Martin, Franz Muheim (group leader), Steve Playfer and Alan Walker), four postdoctoral research associates and nine postgraduate students, plus technical and computing support staff.