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Contact Details:

School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
U.K.

• Office: Room 453, Kelvin Building
• Email: p.soler@physics.gla.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 141 330 4153
• Fax: +44 141 330 5881
• Secretary: +44 141 330 4702 (Valerie Flood, room 477)

Teaching

I am a Professor in Experimental Particle Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy . These are the courses I am currently teaching:

• P4002 Atomic Systems
• SUPA Graduate Course on Flavour Physics
• Physics 4 small group supervision sessions

• Physics 1X: Optics, Waves and Lasers, Part 2 (2000-2005).
• Physics 1X*, Frontiers of Physics, Discovery of the Neutrino Mass (2003-2006).
• Physics 1X*, Frontiers of Physics, The Large Hadron Collider (2007-2009).
• Exploring the Cosmos 1: Solar System Part 1 (2002-2004).
• Physics 3, Circuits and Systems (304) Part 1 (2000-2004).
• Physics 306H, Elecromagnetism 1 (Part 2) (2008-2009)
• Physics 304H, Quantum Mechanics (Part 2) (2006-2007)
• Physics 4: Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Systems (MSci), Part 1 (2005).
• Physics 404H, Particle Physics (Part 2) (2009-2013)
• Physics 411M, Elecromagnetic Theory 2 (2009-2013)
• Graduate course on "CP Violations" for Particle Physics students (2001-2002).
• Graduate course on "Neutrino Physics" for Particle Physics students (2003-2010)

Administration

• Convener Learning and Teaching (2017-2020).
  
• Chair, Physics Honours Exam Committee (2015-2017).
  
• Teaching Committee (2009-2013 and 2014-2020).
  
• Physics 4 and 5 Class Head (2009-2013).
  
• Physics Honours Exam Committee (2009-2013).
  
• Physics and Astronomy Examinations Officer (2005-2008).
  
• Honours Projects Coordinator (2005-2008)
  
• Adviser of Studies (2005-2006)
  
• Undergraduate Admissions (2005-2007)
  
• Deputy Honours Projects Coordinator (2000-2004)
  
• Hunter and Thomson Prize Committee (2000-2004)
  

Research

• LHCb

My main research activity is on the LHCb experiment that has been data taking since 2009 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The aim of the experiment is to measure differences in the decay of beauty and charm hadrons with respect to their antiparticle partners (CP violation) and to search for new physics in their production and decay.

• LHCb at CERN.
• Neutrino Physics

I also work in neutrino physics and the search for CP violation in the neutrino sector by comparing the rate of oscillations of neutrinos and antineutrinos. To achieve this, one needs accelerators that can produce huge numbers of neutrinos. I participate in the T2K experiment and work towards the future Hyper-Kamiokande experiment:

• T2K: experiment designed to measure muon to electron neutrino oscillations and search for CP violation.
• Hyper-Kamiokande: third generation experiment currently under construction that aims to discover CP violation in the neutrino sector.

I have also worked in the design of novel neutrino beams, such as the Neutrino Factory, which produces neutrino beams from the decay of muons, and experiments to enable the technology for Neutrino Factories, such as MICE and the hadron experiment HARP:

• MICE: an experiment to measure muon ionization cooling, the proposed method to cool beams of muons in a neutrino factory to increase its luminosity.
• Neutrino Factory International Scoping Study: Near Detector Group Convenor.
• International Design Study for a Neutrino factory (IDS-NF): Detectors and Instrumentation convenor.
• HARP: an experiment to measure the yields of pions needed to produce the muons for the neutrino factory.

I also worked on the NOMAD neutrino experiment:

• NOMAD: experiment designed to observe muon to tau neutrino oscillations at CERN.

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Publications

• Publications from INSPIRE database.

First written 23rd January 2001; last modified 23rd January 2021

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