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Dr Paul Jackson

Telephone	+61 8 8313 0269
Position	Lecturer
Email	p.jackson@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4380
Building	Physics Building
Floor/Room	1 12
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Physics (School of Chemistry and Physics)

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Research Interests

I work on experimental tests of the fundamental forces of nature and searching for new particles and phenomena. My research is carried out using data from the ATLAS experiment located at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.

My particular area of study is in searches for Supersymmetry using non-standard techniques to probe for physics which may exist beyond the standard model using charged leptons. You can learn a bit about particle physics here.

With ATLAS we have access to over one-hundred thousand computers working all over the world analysing data recorded by the detector at CERN.

We are expanding our local tier-3 computing centre to store and process huge volumes of ATLAS data and host the Monte Carlo simulation required to perform different detector studies and analyses.

The Adelaide group is developing a robust effort for the maintenance, operation and upgrade of the ATLAS detector. This includes building a world-class electronics laboratory on the Adelaide campus. This is a great opportunity for the training of students and staff in state-of-the-art techniques for high-throughput data-transfer.

Here is an event display from the ATLAS experiment showing one of the candidates for the discovery of a new particle consistent with the elusive Higgs Boson!

Event display of a proton-proton collision producing 2 electrons and 2 muons

The Adelaide group are active in the ATLAS collaboration and prominent in Australian particle physics. We are members of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics or CoEPP. Contact me if you would like to know more!

Opportunities for Students!

There are exciting projects from students at undergraduate, hnours, masters and PhD level. Projects covered include:

Grid and cloud computing to improve particle detector simulation
High performance data acquisition software for fast detector readout
The search for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Various projects in particle phenomenology
Using collider physics and astrophysics to constraint dark matter signatures

Previous Students mentored:

David W. Miller (PhD Stanford university - now postdoc University of Chicago)
Josh Cogan (PhD Stanford University)
Christian Ohm (PhD Stockholm University, now CERN fellow)
Mireia Crispin Ortuzar (CERN Summer Stuent, now PhD candidate Oxford University)
Elisa Manoni (PhD Universita di Perugia, now staff at INFN Perugia)
Francesco Renga (PhD Universita Di Roma 'La Sapienza', now postdoc INFN Rome)
Elisabetta Baracchini (PhD Universita Di Roma 'La Sapienza', now project scientist University of Tokyo)
Luke Corwin (PhD The Ohio State University, now postdoc Indiana University)

Files

Curriculum Vitae - cv_7.pdf [367.3K] (application/pdf)

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Science and technology, Astronomy & space
Expertise	Particle Physics; Higgs Boson; CERN; Physics; Big Bang; Supersymmetry

Entry last updated: Friday, 8 Mar 2013

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