Glasgow Particle Physics Masterclass surpasses 1000 pupils

Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:00:00 BST

More than 1000 pupils have attended the Glasgow Particle Physics Masterclass since the current series started in 2009. In the course of the day pupils hear lectures from experts in the field about the research going on in Glasgow in collider physics, the Higgs boson discovery, and neutrino physics, and try their hand at analyzing real collider data and making measurements of fundamental properties of the electron.

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Glasgow congratulates Higgs and Englert on Nobel Prize

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:25:00 BST

Particle physicists in Glasgow are delighted that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Peter Higgs and François Englert

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GLADD Opening of new PPE Group Laboratory

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:14:00 GMT

The opening ceremony for the Glasgow Laboratory for Advanced Detector Development (GLADD) took place on Friday the 16th of November 2012 at 12:30 pm. Prof Martin Hendry (HoS, School of Physics) and Prof Tony Doyle (Head of the PPE Group) opened the new facility.

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Higgs day ~ 4th July 2012

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:32:00 BST

Around 35 postgraduate students, researchers, computer professionals, technicians, and academics who make up the Glasgow ATLAS team celebrated the discovery of a new particle.

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Glasgow scientists celebrate Higgs

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:00:00 BST

Glasgow scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are today celebrating the observation of a new particle, consistent with being the elusive Higgs boson.

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Glasgow degree for CERN Director General

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:05:00 BST

On 13th June 2012, the University of Glasgow awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science to Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the Director General of CERN.

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Nick Edwards wins John G Rutherglen Prize ~ 2012

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:39:00 BST

Nick Edwards, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, has been awarded the 2012 John G Rutherglen Prize.

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Danilo Ferreira de Lima wins IoP HEPP Poster Prize ~ 2012

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:14:00 BST

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.

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Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Particle Physics at the Crossroads

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:00 BST

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.

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ATLAS and CMS experiments announce news of Higgs search ~ 13 December 2011

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:50:00 GMT

In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson.

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University takes School groups to CERN ~ June 2011

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:16:00 BST

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.

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Member of Parliament for Glasgow North, and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, A McKechin MP, visits CERN ~ 11 February 2011

Mon, 23 May 2011 10:55:00 BST

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.

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Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Exploring the Terascale

Mon, 23 May 2011 10:50:00 BST

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.

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Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, M. Russell MSP, visits CERN ~ 7th February 2011

Thu, 19 May 2011 16:23:00 BST

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.

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MPI@LHC2010 ~ The 2nd International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC

Thu, 19 May 2011 15:57:00 BST

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.

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Particle Physics Schools Masterclass ~ 2010

Thu, 19 May 2011 15:52:00 BST

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.

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19th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors

Thu, 19 May 2011 15:35:00 BST

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.

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Dr Chris Parkes wins IoP HEPP Group Prize ~ 7 April 2010

Thu, 19 May 2011 14:44:00 BST

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.

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Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Particle Physics & Cosmology in the Age of the LHC

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:29:00 GMT

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.

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Scottish University Summer School (SUSSP) ~ LHC Physics

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:54:00 BST

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.

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Prize for Glasgow student's work at CERN

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:41:00 BST

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.

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Particle Physics Schools Masterclass ~ 2009

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:27:00 BST

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.

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Higgs Maxwell Workshop ~ Current Status & Future Prospects

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:02:00 BST

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.

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LHC Switch-on ~ 'Red Button Day' ~ 10 September 2008

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:58:00 BST

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.

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The 8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD8)

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:45:00 BST

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.

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First Particles in LHC seen at LHCb experiment ~ 22 August 2008

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:21:00 BST

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.

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SaxonFest: A Celebration @ Glasgow University ~ 30 May 2008

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:11:00 BST

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.

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Big Bang Launch @ Glasgow Science Centre (SECC) ~ 2 May 2008

Thu, 19 May 2011 10:32:00 BST

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.

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ATLAS Overview Week

Thu, 19 May 2011 10:05:00 BST

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.