Prof. Philip Clark
- Position:
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Personal Chair in Experimental Particle Physics
- Research Theme:
- Particle and Nuclear Physics
- Research Group:
- Particle Physics Experiment
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Email address:
- p.j.clark@ed.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/philip-clark
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)131 650 5231
- Address:
- School of Physics and Astronomy, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
Research interests
Prof Clark's research interests are the major unsolved questions in particle physics: the properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson and the nature of the fundamental particle mass generation mechanism.
CP violation (matter-antimatter asymmetry) and understanding the rare decays of particles created in particle accelerator collisions, are additional long-term interests.
He is interested in new computer architectures, particularly the advent of many-core and GPGPU (General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units) devices.
Previously he led the Edinburgh GridPP (Computing Grid for Particle Physics) effort and was Chairman of the ScotGrid Tier-2 compute and data centre.
He created the University’s research programme in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, where he currently holds a CERN associateship.
Teaching
Introduction to Java Programming (MSc)
Research Methods: Introduction to Maple (3rd & 4th year)
Physics 2A: Forces, Fields & Potentials (2nd year)
- Physics 1B: Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics (1st year)
Research outputs
- Femtoscopy with identified charged pions in proton-lead collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with ATLAS DOI, Physical Review C, 96, 6 (2017)
- Search for squarks and gluinos in events with an isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 96, 11 (2017)
- Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two leptons in $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector DOI, European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, C77, 12 , p. 898 (2017)
- Determination of the strong coupling constant $\alpha _\mathrm {s}$ from transverse energy–energy correlations in multijet events at $\sqrt{s} = 8~\hbox {TeV}$ using the ATLAS detector DOI, European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, C77, 12 , p. 872 (2017)
- Search for a scalar partner of the top quark in the jets plus missing transverse momentum final state at s√=13s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Journal of High Energy Physics, 1712 (2017)
- Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=8 $ TeV DOI, Journal of High Energy Physics, 1712, p. 059 (2017)
- Measurement of the cross-section for electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Physics Letters B, B775, p. 206-228 (2017)
- Search for new phenomena in high-mass diphoton final states using 37 fb$^{-1}$ of proton--proton collisions collected at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Physics Letters B, B775, p. 105-125 (2017)
- Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to two photons at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Physical Review, D96, 11 , p. 112004 (2017)
- Study of the material of the ATLAS inner detector for Run 2 of the LHC DOI, Journal of Instrumentation, 12, 12 (2017)
