On March 22, Durham University’s Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) hosted the International Masterclass on Particle Physics—a hands-on event where high school students analysed real data from the Minerva neutrino detector. Over one hundred students from six local high schools—Durham Johnston, Durham Sixth Form, Newcastle High School for Girls, Thirsk School and Sixth Form, …
We congratulate Khadeejah Bepari on completing her PhD. The topic of her PhD thesis was Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics.
The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology is delighted to host the annual International Masterclass of Particle Physics on March 22. This is an exciting opportunity for A-level students to take part in an International Masterclass in Particle Physics. More information is available here.
We are pleased to welcome 4 new graduate students and 10 PDRAs for the new academic year, which was celebrated with a group photo and the IPPP start of year party.
The 2023 conference season is busy at the IPPP. We are host to the international conferences and schools listed below in just the period April to September. These conference bring national and international experts to Durham to disseminate new research results. Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2023 MCnet Summer School 2023 Workshop on the modeling of photon-induced …
Congratulations to Henry Truong on completing his thesis titled “Machine learning high multiplicity matrix elements for electron-positron and hadron-hadron colliders“! The abstract of his thesis was: The LHC is a large-scale particle collider experiment collecting vastquantities of experimental data to study the fundamental particles, and forces, ofnature. Theoretical predictions made with the SM can be …
Jessica Turner of the IPPP, Durham University, was interviewed by Medium Magazine about being an inspirational woman in STEM. Find her thoughts on this topic here.
Martin Bauer and Stephen Jones have written a piece in theconversation.com reflecting on the road from theoretical idea to discovery of the Higgs Boson, and some of the yet unanswered questions in Particle Physics.
Martin Bauer has written a piece for The Institute of Art and Ideas on the recent measurement of the mass of the W boson by CDF at the Tevatron. Their very precise determination puts its mass slightly higher than the world average, and in tension with the expectation from the much celebrated Standard Model of …
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Asli Abdullahi passed her viva on 21 March, after a good discussion about neutrino physics with examiners Prof. Joachim Kopp and Dr. Djuna Croon. Dr. Abdullahi wrote an excellent thesis on aspects of neutrino physics, heavy neutral leptons, and low-energy anomalies. Now a postdoc at Fermilab, a bright future in particle physics awaits her.
