At the Institute of Physics, High Energy Particle Physics Group annual meeting in Oxford last week, Peter Richardson was awarded the Institute of Physics, High Energy Particle Physics Group Prize for 2009. Dr Richardson is an expert in the Monte Carlo simulation of high energy particle physics events, and his codes are, or have been, …
Founding IPPP member, Professor Michael Pennington has been named as one of the Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters for 2009. Initiated in 2008, the American Physical Society Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for the APS journals including Physical Review D and …
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The IPPP has received a new ten-year grant from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to continue its world-class research into some of the Universe’s greatest secrets such as the mysteries surrounding antimatter and dark matter, the possibility of extra space-time dimensions and the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. The IPPP is funded …
The new IPPP Grid cluster is now available for use and has been in full operation since the beginning of January 2009. The new cluster now provides 1 Million SpecInt2k – a factor of 12 increase on the old cluster. This is a significant improvement in computational power to assist particle physics research through the …
This year, the IPPP has instituted a new lecture series in honour of its Founding Director, Professor James Stirling FRS. We hope that this will become an annual fixture in the University calendar. The Stirling Lecture for 2008 is to be given jointly by Professor Brian Foster FRS, of Oxford University and the violinist Jack …
Durham, via the IPPP Grid Cluster, has gained affiliate status with the National Grid Service (NGS) enabling a wider use of the resources throughout the UK. Durham, through its Particle Physics cluster, is a Tier 2 site within EGEE, a member of the UK GridPP project, and a founder member of the ScotGrid project. The …
More than 80 physicists, mathematicians and engineers met for breakfast in the Ogden Centre to watch the world’s most powerful particle accelerator the Large Hadron Colider at CERN “switch on”. The LHC hopes to find answers to some of the most fundamental mysteries of our Universe, from anti-matter to dark matter, the famous Higgs particle …
After four months at the IPPP, funded by the Brazilian CNPq agency, Emerson Luna has left to take up a position as Professor adjunto (the equivalent of a UK lectureship) at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Federal University of Pelotas) As the accompanying map shows, Pelotas is in the “Rio Grande do Sul” state/province at …
Theorists from the IPPP led by Professor Valery Khoze have been working closely with experimentalists from ATLAS and CMS to develop a proposal to install very forward proton detectors at the LHC. These detectors would measure precisely forward protons in conjunction with the corresponding central detectors as a means to study Standard Model physics, and …
For the second year, the IPPP is sponsoring a summer student from Harvard through The Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies. Andrea Peterson will be spending two months at the IPPP learning about research in one of the University’s flagship research institutes. She will be working closely with the SHERPA team led by Dr …
