Prof. Alex Murphy

- Position:
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Personal Chair in Nuclear & Particle Astrophysics
- Research Theme:
- Particle and Nuclear Physics
- Research Groups:
- Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics Experiment
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Email address:
- amurphy@ph.ed.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~amurphy
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)131 650 5285
- Address:
- School of Physics and Astronomy, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
Research interests
Direct detection of dark matter, and nuclear astrophysics, especailly explosive scenarios.
Teaching
Major roles in pre-honours teaching. Course organiser for Classical & Modern Physics (and Modern Physics). Also lecture modern physics (nuclear, particle and astrophysics) in first year.
Research outputs
- Search for annual and diurnal rate modulations in the LUX experiment DOI, Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 98, 6 (2018)
- LUX trigger efficiency DOI, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 908, p. 401-410 (2018)
- Liquid xenon scintillation measurements and pulse shape discrimination in the LUX dark matter detector DOI, Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 97, 11 (2018)
- Calibration, event reconstruction, data analysis, and limit calculation for the LUX dark matter experiment DOI, Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 97, 10 (2018)
- Uncertainties in s-process nucleosynthesis in low-mass stars determined from Monte Carlo variations DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 3 , p. 4101-4127 (2018)
- Position reconstruction in LUX DOI, Journal of Instrumentation, 13, 02 (2018)
- Chromatographic separation of radioactive noble gases from xenon DOI, Astroparticle Physics, 97, p. 80-87 (2018)
- Kr83m calibration of the 2013 LUX dark matter search DOI, Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 96, 11 (2017)
- 3D modeling of electric fields in the LUX detector DOI, Journal of Instrumentation, 12, 11 (2017)
- Identification of radiopure titanium for the LZ dark matter experiment and future rare event searches DOI, Astroparticle Physics, 96, p. 1-10 (2017)
Last updated: 19 Feb 2018 at 21:11