RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The PPE group research highlights are part of large internationally competitive projects.

Our work is currently focused on LHC exploitation and upgrades, as well as kaon physics, neutrino physics and the linear collider. The group has had impact on collider physics, detector and Grid development.

We continue to innovate as we explore ever more deeply into the fundamental constituents of matter.

Read more about our current research here.

Find out about the heritage of particle physics at the University of Glasgow here.

2021-2023

Highlights from this period include: 

• First observation of quantum entanglement in quarks [Nature (submitted) (2023)]
• Measurements of ttH in the H → bb decay channel especially at high Higgs pT [JHEP 06 (2022) 097]
• Measurements of VH in the H → bb decay channel at high Higgs pT [PLB 816 (2021) 136204]
• Differential measurements of tt & ttZ; limits on new physics [JHEP 06 (2022) 063, JHEP (submitted) (2023)]
• Most precise measurement of the top-quark mass to date [PRL (submitted) (2024)]
• Successful ATLAS Upgrade Pixel Module Final Design Review, led by Glasgow
• Discovery of CP violation in B0s → K+K− at LHCb [JHEP 03 (2021) 075]
• Measurement of CKM angle γ and ∆ms with B0s → D−s hπ−π+ decays [JHEP 03 (2021) 137]
• First simultaneous determination of the CKM angle γ & charm mixing parameters [JHEP 12 (2021) 141]
• First lepton universality test using Λ0b → Λclν decays [PRL 128 (2022) 191803]
• Search for new double-charm baryons: Ξ+cc → Ξ+c π−π+ [JHEP 12 (2021) 107]
• Completion and commissioning of the LHCb Run-3 (Upgrade I) detector [LHCb-DP-2022-002 (2023)]
• Measurement of the very rare K+ → π+νν process from NA62 [JHEP 06 (2021) 093]
• Updated measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters from T2K [EPJC 83 (2023) 782]
• First joint analysis of T2K+NOvA data [KEK IPNS/J-PARC and Fermilab joint seminars (2024)]
• The new pre-supernova alert system for Super-Kamiokande [Ap. J. 935 (2022) 40]
• Solar neutrino measurements using the full data period of Super-Kamiokande-IV [2312.12907 (2023)]
• Transverse emittance reduction in muon beams by ionization cooling [Nature Physics (accepted) (2023)]
• The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass [2203.07622 (2022)]

2018 - 2020

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2015 - 2017

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2012 - 2014

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2009 - 2011

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2006 - 2008

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