Danilo Ferreira de Lima wins IoP HEPP Poster Prize ~ 2012
Danilo Ferreira de Lima, a PhD student in the Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) Group, has won the 2012 Institute of Physics (IoP) High Energy Particle Physics (HEPP) Poster Prize.
Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Particle Physics at the Crossroads
This one-day meeting to discuss Particle Physics at the Crossroads, took place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 8 February 2012. The guest of honour was Peter Higgs.
ATLAS and CMS experiments announce news of Higgs search ~ 13 December 2011
In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson.
University takes School groups to CERN ~ June 2011
This year for the first time, a group from seven schools spent three days at CERN, seeing the accelerators and being shown round the experiments by Glasgow physicists.
Member of Parliament for Glasgow North, and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, A McKechin MP, visits CERN ~ 11 February 2011
Mrs Ann McKechin MP, Member of the Parliament for Glasgow North and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, visited CERN on 11th February 2011, along with the Principal of Glasgow University, Professor Anton Muscatelli.
Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Exploring the Terascale
This one-day meeting to review the current status of particle and astro-particle physics and the prospects for future discoveries, took place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 9 February 2011. The meeting is organised by the Universities of Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lancaster.
Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, M. Russell MSP, visits CERN ~ 7th February 2011
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been described as the largest and most complex machine ever constructed. It is the world's largest particle accelerator, designed to probe the structure of the sub-atomic world and shed light on the deepest mysteries in all of science.
MPI@LHC2010 ~ The 2nd International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC
The MPI Workshop took place at Glasgow, Scotland, from 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2010. The aim of this workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions (MPI) at the LHC was to raise the profile of MPI studies, summarising the legacy from the older phenomenology at hadronic colliders and reviewing the early results from the LHC.
Particle Physics Schools Masterclass ~ 2010
This day-long event is held annually in the Kelvin Building at the University of Glasgow. It allows students going into 6th year the opportunity to experience some of the excitement of research in a rapidly-developing field, with hands-on sessions, led by experts working at CERN and Fermilab.
19th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors
Physicists from the world’s leading particle physics collider experiments met at Loch Lomond, near Glasgow, Scotland, from 7-8 June 2010, to discuss the first performance results from the high precision inner detector layers of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and other projects.
Dr Chris Parkes wins IoP HEPP Group Prize ~ 7 April 2010
Dr Chris Parkes of the PPE Group has won the Institute of Physics (IoP) High Energy Particle Physics (HEPP) Group Prize 2010, on the day of first high-energy collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Dr Parkes’ award is in recognition of his wide-ranging achievements in particle physics.
Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Particle Physics & Cosmology in the Age of the LHC
This one-day meeting to review the current status of particle and astro-particle physics and the prospects for future discoveries, took place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 10 February 2010. The meeting is organised by the Universities of Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lancaster.
Scottish University Summer School (SUSSP) ~ LHC Physics
As first collisions were expected in late 2009, the summer of 2009 was an opportune moment to study LHC phenomenology with an emphasis on the first years of data taking at the LHC. The School included twelve days of lectures and a range of cultural activities.
Prize for Glasgow student's work at CERN
Marco Gersabeck, a Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) PhD student at the University of Glasgow has been awarded the 2009 John G Rutherglen Prize. Marco won the prize for his work on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Particle Physics Schools Masterclass ~ 2009
This day-long event is held annually in the Kelvin Building at the University of Glasgow. It allows students going into 6th year the opportunity to experience some of the excitement of research in a rapidly-developing field, with hands-on sessions, led by experts working at CERN and Fermilab.
Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Current Status & Future Prospects
This one-day meeting to review the current theoretical and experimental status of particle physics and the prospects for future discoveries, took place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 February 2009. The meeting is organised by the Universities of Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lancaster.
LHC Switch-on ~ 'Red Button Day' ~ 10 September 2008
On 10th September 2008 the world's biggest scientific experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was switched on at CERN. The LHC is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built by man and will seek answers to some of the most fundamental mysteries of our Universe.
The 8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD8)
The PSD8 Conference was held in Glasgow, from the 1st to the 5th of September 2008. The conference, which is held every three years, explored recent scientific and technical developments of position-sensitive radiation detector systems.
First Particles in LHC seen at LHCb experiment ~ 22 August 2008
At 17:30 on Friday 22 August 2008 LHCb, one of the four LHC experiments, reconstructed in its Vertex Locator (VELO) the first particles from the LHC. The observation was made during a synchronisation test of the accelerator when the particles passed through a short section of the new 27km long LHC accelerator.
SaxonFest: A Celebration @ Glasgow University ~ 30 May 2008
Professor David Saxon OBE retired on August 11th 2008, and to mark the occasion friends and colleagues from around the globe came to Glasgow in May to celebrate. The occasion was marked by a series of excellent talks by distinguished invited guests covering the various stages of David’s career.
Big Bang Launch @ Glasgow Science Centre (SECC) ~ 2 May 2008
The `Big Bang’ touring exhibition was launched on Friday May 2nd to an audience of over one hundred by Professor David Saxon OBE, Dean of the Physical Sciences Faculty. The exhibition describes, in terms accessible to the public, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project currently nearing completion at CERN, Geneva.
ATLAS Overview Week
The PPE Group hosted the ATLAS Overview Week at Glasgow University - 9-13 July 2007. The aim of the ATLAS Overview week was to provide a comprehensive scope of the status and activities of the international ATLAS collaboration.