Connor Graham

I'm currently working on an experimental particle physics PhD at the University of Glasgow, associated with the NA62 experiment at CERN.

The PhD project is an analysis of 2017 data to generate a measurement of the branching fraction of the decay K⁺→π⁺νν. This particlular rare dacay (predicted in the standard model to be at the order of 10^-10) is sensitive to the CKM matrix element |V_td| and to new physics processes that can replace elements of the loop diagrams, which determine this decay process to first order in the Standard Model. For example in models of the heavy Z boson, named the Z'.

Previous to this, I completed a master's degree in physics at the University of Manchester, with the final projects associated with the LHCb experiment at CERN.

The projects at Manchester focussed on seaches for matter-antimatter asymmetries in the D⁰→K_s⁰π⁺π^- channel. This work was acknowledged in the paper "On model-independent searches for direct CP violation in multi-body decays", which describes the methods we used (binned χ² and Energy Test) and can be accessed from: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04705 or by searching the DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/aa75a5