Particle physics phenomenology

Shown schematically here is a particle traversing a pixel layer from the lower left and decaying before the next layer, causing multiple hits to appear. For this technique to be effective the particle should decay into many daughter particles. B hadrons have this property. Shown schematically here is a particle traversing a pixel layer from the lower left and decaying before the next layer, causing multiple hits to appear. For this technique to be effective the particle should decay into many daughter particles. B hadrons have this property.Shown schematically here is a particle traversing a pixel layer from the lower left and decaying before the next layer, causing multiple hits to appear. For this technique to be effective the particle should decay into many daughter particles. B hadrons have this property. © IOP Publishing, All Rights Reserved

Finding ultra-high energy B-hadrons in high energy physics

By Colin Adcock on July 1, 2016

Professor Todd Huffman tells us about a new technique that could dramatically, and simply, increase the sensitivity of ATLAS detectors to B hadrons.

Evolving images of the proton: hadron physics over the past 40 years

By Colin Adcock on April 29, 2016

“Once upon a time, the world was simple: the proton contained three quarks, two ups and a down. “

Thoughts of a theoretical physicist: Sir Tom Kibble

By Colin Adcock on September 4, 2015 • ( 1 )

Professor Sir Tom Kibble is one of the world’s most respected particle physicists, and narrowly missed out on a Nobel Prize. After writing ‘Monopoles on Strings’ for JPhysG’s 40th anniversary collection, we decided to ask him a few questions.

Sir Tejinder Virdee: an interview with the IOP Glazebrook Medal winner 2015

By Colin Adcock on July 30, 2015 • ( 2 )

Alongside a knighthood from the Queen in 2014, Sir Tejinder has won a raft of awards. We find out more about the man behind the mind, the importance of the Large Hadron Collider and what inspired him to become the successful physicist he is today.

APFEL Web and parton distribution functions

By Colin Adcock on March 16, 2015

A helping hand for particle physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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