George Ernest Kalmus,CBE,FRS is a noted British particle physicist.
William James Stirling was a physicist who served as the first Provost of Imperial College London. He was appointed to this role in August 2013 and retired in August 2018.
OPAL was one of the major experiments at CERN's Large Electron–Positron Collider. OPAL studied particles and their interactions by collecting and analysing electron-positron collisions. There were over three-hundred physicists from 32 institutions involved in the collaboration.
The safety of high energy particle collisions was a topic of widespread discussion and topical interest during the time when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and later the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—currently the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator—were being constructed and commissioned. Concerns arose that such high energy experiments—designed to produce novel particles and forms of matter—had the potential to create harmful states of matter or even doomsday scenarios. Claims escalated as commissioning of the LHC drew closer,around 2008–2010. The claimed dangers included the production of stable micro black holes and the creation of hypothetical particles called strangelets,and these questions were explored in the media,on the Internet and at times through the courts.
Quark–gluon plasma is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal and chemical (abundance) equilibrium. The word plasma signals that free color charges are allowed. In a 1987 summary,Léon van Hove pointed out the equivalence of the three terms:quark gluon plasma,quark matter and a new state of matter. Since the temperature is above the Hagedorn temperature—and thus above the scale of light u,d-quark mass—the pressure exhibits the relativistic Stefan-Boltzmann format governed by temperature to the fourth power and many practically massless quark and gluon constituents. It can be said that QGP emerges to be the new phase of strongly interacting matter which manifests its physical properties in terms of nearly free dynamics of practically massless gluons and quarks. Both quarks and gluons must be present in conditions near chemical (yield) equilibrium with their colour charge open for a new state of matter to be referred to as QGP.
Christine Tullis Hunter Davies is a professor of physics at the University of Glasgow.
Sau Lan Wu is a Chinese American particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She made important contributions towards the discovery of the J/psi particle,which provided experimental evidence for the existence of the charm quark,and the gluon,the vector boson of the strong force in the Standard Model of physics. Recently,her team located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN),using data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),was part of the international effort in the discovery of a boson consistent with the Higgs boson.
Terence Richard Wyatt is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester,UK.
Physics outreach encompasses facets of science outreach and physics education,and a variety of activities by schools,research institutes,universities,clubs and institutions such as science museums aimed at broadening the audience for and awareness and understanding of physics. While the general public may sometimes be the focus of such activities,physics outreach often centers on developing and providing resources and making presentations to students,educators in other disciplines,and in some cases researchers within different areas of physics.
Tara Georgina Shears is a Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool.
Jonathan Mark Butterworth is a Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL) working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). His popular science book Smashing Physics,which tells the story of the search for the Higgs boson,was published in 2014 and his newspaper column / blog Life and Physics is published by The Guardian.
Gavin Phillip Salam,is a theoretical particle physicist and a senior research fellow at All Souls College as well as a senior member of staff at CERN in Geneva. His research investigates the strong interaction of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD),the theory of quarks and gluons. Gavin Salam is not related to Abdus Salam.
Mark Thomson is a British particle physicist. He is a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Emmanuel College,Cambridge. Since January 2018,he has been the Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council,one of the nine councils of UK Research and Innovation. Thomson is a delegate of the United Kingdom to CERN Council,the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) and European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS).
Valerie Gibson,also known as Val Gibson,is a professor of Physics and Head of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Cambridge.
Ayana Tamu Arce is an American physicist and professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics,using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Antonella De Santo is an Italian and British Professor of Experimental Physics and works on the ATLAS experiment. She was the first woman in the Department of Physics at the University of Sussex to be made a professor.
Sinéad Farrington is a British particle physicist who works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Bradley Cox is an American physicist,academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Physics and the founder of the High Energy Physics Group at the University of Virginia.
Kamal Benslama is a Moroccan-Swiss experimental particle physicist. He is a professor of physics at Drew University,a visiting experimental scientist at Fermilab,and a guest scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He worked on the ATLAS experiment,at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland,which is considered the largest experiment in the history of physical science. At present,he is member of the MU2E collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab),located just outside Batavia,Illinois,near Chicago. Fermilab is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
Oliver Buchmueller is a scientist and professor of physics at the Faculty of Natural Science,Imperial College London. Buchmueller is presently serving as one of the lead scientists on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider,the principal investigator of the Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network and also one of the lead authors at Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space (AEDGE). Previously he has been associated with the ALEPH experiment at CERN’s LEP collider and the BaBar experiment at SLAC. Buchmueller was among the group of scientists responsible for the discovery of Higgs Boson particle at the LHC,CERN and later in the scientific exploration to find the traces of dark matter through the LHC.
