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This page describes my research and teaching

• Research

Research Topics

• ATLAS searching for the Higgs boson and SUSY at the high energy frontier
• Radiation Hard Detectors developing tracking technologies for future experiments
• Medical Applications applying particle physics technology to medicine

ATLAS

ATLAS is one of the two general purpose experiments that will take data at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Details of the group's activities can be found at http://pppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/ATLAS.
My interests focus on Higgs physics and low-pt physics.

Some recent talks

• Seminar on minimum bias physics and the underlying event at UCL Dec 02
• Talk on VBF channel for Higgs discovery at the LHC, TeV-Scale Physics, Cambridge, Jul 02
• Talk on minimum bias and the underlying event at ISMD, Kracow, Sep 03
• Report at EC-PAR, Nikhef Nov 04 (ppt-file)

Radiation Hard Detectors

There is talk of upgrading the LHC in luminosity by a factor of 10. This will require the development of fast radiation hard tracking detectors. I am currently looking at  in-situ measurements of detector damage parameters α and β.

Some recent talks and papers

• Talk at NSS2002 Norfolk, Virginia, USA
• 'Evolution of silicon microstrip detector currents during proton irradiation at the CERN PS', Nucl. Instr. Meth., A479 (2002) 548-554
• In-situ measurements with pions at PSI

This work is being carried out as part of the CERN RD50 collaboration.

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