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Professor Franz Muheim Head of Particle Physics Experiment Group

To the Dune IB Chair:

• Prof Robert, Wilson, Colorado State University,

To the DUNE Collaboration Spokesperson:

• Prof Mark Thomson, University of Cambridge.

Dear Bob and Mark, The University of Edinburgh, UK would like to join the DUNE collaboration. This has been discussed with Mark Thomson and within the UK institutes, where we now participate in the plans for the next round of funding proposals. In accordance with §2.2 of the “Governance of the DUNE Collaboration” we submit this application letter to the DUNE Institutional Board (IB). List of faculty members applying to join:

• Peter Clarke (Professor)
• Franz Muheim (Professor)
• Matt Needham (Lecturer, equivalent to tenured Assistant Professor)

Franz Muheim will be the Institutional representative of the Edinburgh group. Summary of the group’s scientific interest and technical experience: The Edinburgh Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) group is in the process of creating an activity in neutrino physics and we have decided that we want to focus on long baseline oscillation experiments. All three faculty members have a strong track record

• n measuring CP violation in the quark sector in several experiments (LHCb, BaBar,

NA48, CLEO and NA31). At this stage we are very keen to extend this to the neutrino

• sector. The group has a strong record on instrumentation and computing: Franz

Muheim is an expert on photon detectors and played a major role in the construction

• f the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors for LHCb, Matt Needham was

project leader for the LHCb silicon tracker, Peter Clarke is deputy project leader for GridPP, the UK’s Distributed Computing for Data-Intensive Research.

SCHOOL of PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY The University of Edinburgh The King’s Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Scotland/UK Telephone: +44 (0)131 650 5235 Email: f.muheim@ed.ac.uk 21st December 2016

Professor Franz Muheim Head of Particle Physics Experiment Group

Summary of the proposed science and technical contributions to DUNE: Over the last two decades CP violation in neutrinos has increasingly come to the forefront of particle physics as a possible solution to the matter antimatter asymmetry (leptogenesis). With the DUNE experiment CP violation effects will become experimentally accessible. We have strong expertise in all aspects of data analysis and plan to contribute to sophisticated data fitting, physics object reconstruction, alignment and calibration. An important systematic uncertainty will be neutrino nucleon interactions and we plan to study this effect. The PPE group is interested in the R&D and construction of the DAQ of the DUNE

• experiments. We are discussing this within the UK DUNE groups and plan to

contribute to the data handling, where several important decisions need to be made. The raw data rate of 1.5Tb/s for a DUNE detector is very large, thus we need to study and optimise the flow of the data from the top of the detector to the DAQ computing farms, which might be located at the surface. This includes the compression and zero suppression of data, the data flow, including trigger, control and protocols, and the network between detector and DAQ computing farms. This fits well with the group’s expertise in data storage, simulation and trigger on GridPP, ATLAS, LHCb and (Clarke). We (Muheim, Needham) also are currently working with LAPPDs, which have the potential to increase substantially the efficiency for detecting the scintillation light of liquid argon. Resources the group could contribute to DUNE: The Edinburgh group’s planned resources are: Academic: Clarke, Muheim, Needham, initially at 0.2 FTE/year, but it is planned that one of us could ramp up this up significantly over the next two years. Research associates: ~1.0 FTE/year for the first two years. Engineering/Technicians: ~0.3 FTE/year. Some of this effort is dependent

• n a successful outcome of the UK groups bid for DUNE pre-production to the

funding agencies for the two years from Oct 2017 to Sept 2019. The longer term is less well defined and will depend on the UK funding made available for DUNE

• construction. However, the PPE group is currently heavily involved in the LHCb

upgrade project, which will be installed at CERN in 2019/20. Thus around this time there is scope for a transfer of significant resources, e.g. a senior research fellow, engineering and technical support. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions. Yours sincerely Franz Muheim, Peter Clarke, Matt Needham Head of Physics Experiment School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh Tel: + 44 (0)131 650 5235 Fax: + 44 (0)131 650 7189 Email: f.muheim@ed.ac.uk

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Curriculum Vitae –Peter Clarke

• 1. Personal details

Name: Peter Eric Linstead Clarke DoB: 17-June 1958 Nationality: British

• 2. Present Appointment (since 2004)

Professor of e-Science School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

• 3. Previous appointments

CERN Associate CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 2010-12 Director of the National eScience Centre, University of Edinburgh 2004-09 Head of the Particle Physics Research Group, University College London 2001-04 Professor University College London 2002-04 Reader University College London 2001-02 Lecturer University College London 1993-01 CERN Associate CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 1996-97 Lecturer Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK 1987-92 CERN Fellow CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 1985-87 Electronic Engineer State University of New York, USA 1980-81

• 4. Qualifications

B.Sc Hons (1st class ) Electronics Southampton University 1980 D.Phil Experimental Particle Physics University of Oxford 1985

• 5. Professional

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (FRSE) Chartered Physicist, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET)

• 6. External Committees and other bodies.

Member STFC Science Board 2014- Chair STFC Computing Advisory Panel 2006-2014 ICCER Enquiry (Independent Climate Change Email Review). Investigation of email 2009 release and allegations of scientific fraud at Univ. of East Anglia Climate Change Unit. Member of governing body of Global Grid Forum (international standards body) Director of Data Area Sector 2002-04 Member JISC JSR Research Committee 2004-07 Member JISC JCN Network Committee 2002-06 Member PPARC E-Science Steering Committee 2001-03 Member of UKERNA-JISC Review Committee following Follet Report Member of OST/EPSRC e-science GNT (Grid Networking Team) 2001-03 Member PPARC CNAP (Computing and Networking Advisory Panel) 1997-00 Chair PPARC PPNCG Committee (Particle Physics Network Coordinating Committee) 1997-05 Member PPARC PPESP Committee (Particle Physics Experiments Selection Panel) 1989-92 Secretary of Institute of Physics HEPP Committee 1992-95 Member of Institute of Physics HEPP Committee 1989-92

• 7. Grants/ awards

Particle Phyics Rolling grant 2012-2015 [CoI] £2.6M Digital Research Network Grant 2012 [PI] £114k Particle Phyics Rolling grant 2009-20012 [CoI] £1.5M NRP: National eScience Centre Platform 2008-11 [PI] £492k Particle Phyics Rolling grant 2006-2009 [CoI] £1.18M eScience Institute [CoI] 2006-10 £2.5M eSTORM 2006-2008 [PI], £500k National eScience Centre 2006-08 [PI] , £450k GridPP + GridPP2 the UK Grid for Particle physics UCL component £610k [UCL PI] EGEE, EU Grid infrastructure project UCL component £350k [UCL PI]

2 EU DataTAG international network research project, £240k [UCL PI] ESLEA, multi-institute/discipline network project £1.2M [PI] MB-NG managed bandwidth £670k [PI] EU Framework-5 IST DataTAG project – ECU 4M [UCL PI] CDF Responsive RA 1999-2002 - £120 K [PI] PPARC DataGRID Networking 2000-2003 - £150 K PPARC Particle Physics Group rolling research grant 2004-2006 [PI] £1.8M PPARC Particle Physics Group rolling research grant 2002-2004 - £1.6M

• 8. Short Career Summary

2004-present: The LHC programme at CERN (LHCb) Joined LHCB experiment in 2004. Part time involvement whilst serving as Director of NeSC (see below) , but then moved full time to LHCb in 2009. Since then worked on the analysis of J/PsiPhi channel to measure phis and now sub-group convenor for CP tools and techniques. Resident at CERN from Sept 2010 until April 2012 (CERN Associate 2011-12). Served on editorial board. Currently Deputy Computing Coordinator and Chair of National Computing Board 1997-present: Computing and Networking for the LHC programme (WLCG and GridPP) Deeply involved in computing infrastructure for LHC programme since its inception. Early technical director and long time member of Project Management Board of GridPP project (UK component of Worldwide Computing Grid For LHC), special responsibility for LHCb experiment and liaisons with Ja.net in respect of networking for LHC. 2004-2009: Director of the National e-Science Centre In 2004 appointed to the Chair of e-Science at the University of Edinburgh, and became Director

• f the National e-Science Centre (NeSC). The NeSC was the National Centre for promotion and

enabling of e-Science (www.nesc.ac.uk). Stepped down from this role in 2009. 2001-2004: Head of Particle Physics Research Group at University College London. The group research portfolio encompassed the LHC (ATLAS), a neutrino mass experiment (MINOS), a proton collision experiment (CDF) and continuing work on OPAL and ZEUS

• experiments. During this time the group grew substantially by attracting several leading young

academic staff and was successful in major rolling grant awards. 1997-2004: The LHC programme at CERN (ATLAS) In 1997 became ATLAS group leader at UCL. Took the group into the ATLAS 2nd level trigger working on read out boards (ROB) and data flow simulation. The group also developed the new incarnation of the fast simulation (ATLAFAST). 1997-present: Grid Computing and eScience Prominent in e-Science and Grid computing where he was involved in: the European DataGrid (EDG), Enabling Grids for Europe (EGEE), UK particle physics Grid (GridPP) and the Governance Board of the Global Grid Forum (GGF). Led the successful national campaign to build the first national R&D network (UKLIGHT) which in turn led to the latest incarnation of SuperJANET incorporating a national lightpath services available ubiquitously, and which now provides for the LHC. Currently on PMB of GridPP, and Chair of UK STFC Computing Advisory Panel. 1987-97: Precision measurements of the electro-weak interaction through e+e- annihilation experiments at SLAC (SLD) and CERN (OPAL): Over a period of ten years first as a lecturer at Brunel, then as a lecturer at UCL, worked on precision measurements of the electroweak interaction. First at SLAC (SLD) in the USA and then at CERN (OPAL), where he became one of the principle physicists responsible for combining all electro-weak measurements. This work led to the definitive measurements of the properties (mass, width, decay properties) of the Z boson and the measurements of the Lorentz structure of the tri- linear couplings of the W and Z bosons. Awarded CERN Associateship to lead the physics analysis group and later to Chair the international inter-collaboration combinations group. 1985-87: CP Violation at CERN (NA31): Awarded a CERN Fellowship immediately following D.Phil. and moved to CERN to become member of the team which made the world’s first measurement of direct CP violation in the Kaon system. This work was part of the NA31 collaboration programme.

3 1981-85: D.Phil. thesis at University of Oxford Nuclear Physics Laboratory: Early measurements of the properties of the newly discovered Tau lepton as a member of the TASSO collaboration at the PETRA e+e- collider at DESY, Hamburg.

Curriculum Vitae

Name:

• Prof. Franz Muheim

Citizen: Switzerland Address: Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics School of Physics and Astronomy James Clerk Maxwell Building The King’s Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ United Kingdom Tel: ++ 44 (0)131 650 5235 Fax: ++ 44 (0)131 650 7189 E-Mail: F.Muheim@ed.ac.uk

Positions:

2006 - Professor of Particle Physics University of Edinburgh. 2003 - 2006: Reader University of Edinburgh. 1999 - 2003: Lecturer University of Edinburgh. 1995 - 1998: Maˆ ıtre-assistant Universit´ e de Gen` eve. 1992 - 1994: Research Associate Syracuse University. 1991: Postdoktorand Universit¨ at Z¨ urich. 1986 - 1991: Assistent Universit¨ at Z¨ urich.

Education:

1990: University of Zurich, Ph.D. (Dr. phil. II). 1986 - 1990: Graduate Student at the University of Zurich (Prof. R. Engfer). 1985: ETH Zurich, Diploma (master degree). 1980 - 1985: Studying Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

Personal Information:

Since 1988 married to Ruth n´ ee Keller. One daughter, Andrea Naomi. Languages: German (mother tongue), English (excellent), French (excellent).

Awards:

2007: Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) 1994: CERN Fellowship 1994: Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship 1

Research Experience:

LHCb Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, Geneva (since 1999): 2015 - Precision measurements of CKM element Vub. 2015 - Build and test RICH photon detectors for LHCb upgrade 2010 - Measurements of CP violation and lifetimes in Bs decays. 2010 - Measurement of b and c quark production. 2010 - Operation of LHCb RICH detectors. 2010 - 2015 R&D for LHCb upgrade. 2008 - 2012 Spokesperson and Principal Investigator of LHCb UK Collaboration. 2007 - 2009 LHCb Upgrade Convenor. 2006 - LHCb upgrade: R&D and physics studies. 2003 - 2009 Sensitivity studies for LHCb physics programme. 2007 - 2009 Commissioning of HPDs. 2003 - 2008 Build and test HPDs for LHCb RICH. 1999 - 2003 R&D on MaPMTs as RICH photon detectors. 1999 - 2008 Design, construction of LHCb RICH detectors. BABAR experiment at PEP II, SLAC, Stanford (1999-2006): 1999 - 2006 Precision measurements of CKM element Vub. 2000 - 2004 Study of CP violation in rare hadronic decays. L3 experiment at LEP, CERN, Geneva (1995-1998): 1996 - 1998 Spectroscopy of B mesons. 1995 - 1998 Precision lifetime measurements of B mesons. 1995 - 1998 Operation of BGO electromagnetic Calorimeter. CLEO experiment at CESR, Cornell University, Ithaca (1992 - 1994): 1995 R&D for RICH detector for CLEO III. 1993 -1994 First measurement of the decay constant fDs with D+

s → µ+νµ decays.

1992 - 1994 Observation of charmless semileptonic B mesons. SINDRUM I and II experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland (1986- 1991): 1989 - 1991 Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation in µ− → e− conversion. 1986 - 1989 Design and Construction of drift chamber. 1986 Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation in µ+ → e+e−e+ decays. 2

Research Committees:

2016 Member of protoDune Photon Detector Review. 2016 Review for Newton Fund at British Council 2016 - Treasurer of IOP HEPP Committee. 2016 - Reviewer for JHEP. 2015 - Reviewer for Croatian Science Funding agency. 2013 - Member of ATLAS UK Oversight Committee. 2013 - Member of IOP HEPP Committee. 2010 - LHCb experiment: Member/Chair of Paper Review Committees. 2012 Reviewer for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 2011 & 2014 Member of academic appointment panel, Glasgow University 2008 - 2010 Member of PPRP - Project Peer Review Panel (STFC). 2008 - Reviewer for Canadian National Science Foundation. 2007 - Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation. 2002 - Reviewer for PPARC (now STFC) Fellowship applications. 2007 Member of PPARC Fellowship Panel. 2006 - 2009 Member of SUPA Research Strategy Group. 2005 - 2007 Member of PPAP - Particle Physics Advisory Panel (PPARC). 2001 - 2007 Member of PPUAP - Particle Physics Users Advisory Committee (CCLRC). 2004 Chair of PPUAC Working Group on Future Technology Needs, report submitted to PPUAC, CCLRC and PPARC. 2002 - 2005 BABAR experiment: Chair of Paper Review Committee. 2002 Reviewer of ATLAS and CMS experiments for PPARC (PPRP). 2002 Reviewer of RAL TD effort for CCLRC. 1999 Panel member for LHCb RICH Photo detector choice. 1998 Reviewer for European Physics Journal C. 1998 - 1999 Member of LEP Electroweak Working Group. 1995 - 1999 L3 experiment: Member/chair of several Paper Review Committees

• n “Heavy-flavour” decays and electroweak couplings.

1992 - 1995 CLEO experiment: Member of several Paper Review Committees

• n study of decays of B and D mesons.

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Leadership & Administrative Experience:

Research:

2009 - Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) Group Leader 2009 - 2012 Member of LHCb Membership committee 2008 - 2012 Spokesperson and Principal Investigator of LHCb UK Collaboration. 2007 - 2009 LHCb Upgrade Convenor. 2006 - 2009 SUPA Particle Physics Theme Leader. 2003 - Member of LHCb-UK Steering Board 1999 - Member of LHCb Collaboration Board 1999 - Leader of Edinburgh PPE LHCb group 2001 - 2008 Project Manager for LHCb RICH photodetector test facilities 2005 - 2008 Member of LHCb Speakers Bureau 2003 - 2009 Deputy Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) Group Leader 2001 - 2003 Member of LHCb-UK Project Management Committee 1999 - 2004 Coordinator for Multianode Photo Multiplier Tubes Development 1998 - 1999 L3 experiment: Coordinator of “Heavy flavor” analysis group.

Department/School of Physics

2009 - 2014 Head of Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics 2009 - 2014 Member of School Executive Committee and Deputy Head of School 2009 - 2010 Member of School Research Committee 2005 Member of Professorial Appointment Panel 2003 Member of Lectureship & Readership Appointment Panels 2003 - 2005 Member of School Computing Committee 2003 - 2004 Member of Curriculum Project/Semesterisation Task Force 2002 Chair of Laboratory Teaching Task Force 2003 - 2005 Elected Member of School Management Committee 2000 - 2002 Elected Member of Head of Department’s Committee 2001 Member of Electronics Teaching Task Force 2000 Member of Technical Staff Review Committee

Conferences, Workshops, Exhibitions:

2016 Chair organising committee for Heavy Flavour Quo Vadis? workshop at Islay. 2014 Chair organising committee for Beauty2014 conference at Edinburgh. 2012 Chair organising committee for SUSSP69, a Summer School in Hadron Collider Physics: The Higgs Boson and Beyond, St. Andrews. 2011 Chair organising committee: ”LHCb Collaboration week” at Edinburgh. 2010 Organising committee: ”Higgs-Maxwell Meeting” at Edinburgh 2007 Organiser: “LHCb RICH meeting” at Edinburgh 2007 Organiser: “SUPA Particle Physics Theme meeting” at Edinburgh 2007 Chair organiser: “LHCb Upgrade workshop” at Edinburgh 2005 - 2007 Convenor of working group 2 - B/D/K decays: “Flavour in the era of the LHC”, 5 workshops of 3 days each at CERN 2006 Editor and Co-organiser of SUSSP61 a Summer School in “Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology in St.Andrews”. Jun 2003 Chair: MaPMT workshop, Imperial College, London Apr 2003 Convenor: CKM workshop at Durham Jun 2002 Chair organiser: LHCb-UK meeting, University of Edinburgh Oct 2001 PPARC Travelling Exhibition at Dynamic Earth centre, Edinburgh Apr 2000 Local organiser: IoP Particle Physics 2000 and Higgsfest, University of Edinburgh 4

Teaching Experience:

2014 - Data Acquisition and Handling, laboratory coursea. 2014 - Relativity, Nuclear and Particle Physics, lectures and tutorialsa. 2010 - M.Phys project supervisora. 2005 - Senior Honours Laboratory projects supervisora. 2011 - 2014 Subatomic Physics lectures and tutorialsa. 2009 - 2014 Senior Honours Project course organisera. 2009 - 2010 Second Year Physics 2B lecturesa. 2009 - 2010 Second Year Physics 2B workshopsa. 2006 - 2007 First Year Physics 1B Laboratory supervisora. 2004 - 2006 Junior Honours Particle Physics lecturesa. 2004 - 2006 Junior Honours Particle Physics tutorialsa. 2004 - 2006 Junior Honours (Third Year) Programme Coordinatora. 2003 - 2006 First Year Physics 1Bh lecturesa 2003 - 2006 First Year Physics 1Bh tutorialsa 2001 - 2004 Fourth Year Laboratory projects supervisora. 2001 - 2004 Postgraduate Particle Physics lecturesa. 1999 - 2006 Third Year Physics laboratory supervisora. 2000 - 2004 Course Organiser for Physics 3 2000 - 2004 Fourth/Fifth Year Particle Physics lecturesa. 2000 - 2004 Fourth/Fifth Year Particle Physics tutorialsa. 2001 - 2003 Physics 2 tutorialsa. 2000 - 2006 M.Phys. Group project (Fourth year) supervisora. 1999 - 2000 First Year Physics 1Bh tutorials.a 1997 - 1998 Nuclear Physics teaching assistantb. 1995 - 1998 Physics laboratory for medical and science studentsb. 1988 - 1989 Data Analysis and Atomic Physics teaching assistantc. 1986 - 1991 Physics laboratory for medical and science studentsc. 1983 - 1985 Physics lectures (3 - 6 hours weekly) at Matura Schoold.

a University of Edinburgh. b University of Geneva. c University of Zurich. d Matura (University entry exam) school for adults (college) at St.Gallen.

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Research Related Teaching Experience:

1999 - First Supervisor of ten (currently one) Ph.D students 1999 - Second Supervisor of eleven (currently two) Ph.D students 1999 - Supervisor of final year MPhys project students 2005 - 2009 SUPA Graduate School interactive classes 2005 - 2006 Organiser of SUPA particle physics Graduate School programme Feb 2016 External External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, University of Bristol May 2014 Internal Examiner for a Ph.D. Thesis Nov 2012 Internal Examiner for a Ph.D. Thesis Jan 2012 External External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, University of Dortmund Nov 2010 External External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, University of Manchester Feb 2009 Internal Examiner for a Ph.D. Thesis Apr 2008 External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, University of Birmingham Feb 2007 External Examiner for a Ph.D. Thesis, University of Melbourne Nov 2006 External Examiner for a MSc Thesis, University of Glasgow Nov 2006 External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, Royal Holloway, London Oct 2006 External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand Mar 2006 External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, Imperial College, London Mar 2004 External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, Imperial College, London Dec 2003 Internal Examiner for a Ph.D. Thesis Sep 2003 Lecturer at Summer School, Prerow 2002 - 2003 Supervisor of a research student for MSc thesis 2002 - 2004 School of Physics General Interest Seminar Organiser, bi-weekly 2000 - 2006 Supervisor of several summer students Oct 2002 External Examiner for a Ph.D Thesis, University of Dresden May 1999 Internal Examiner for a Ph.D. Thesis 1995 - 1997 Particle Physics Seminar Organiser, bi-weekly 1995 - 1998 Supervisor of a graduate student at the University of Geneva 6

Matthew David Needham

Date of Birth: 7th January 1974 Correspondence 18/4 Hillend Place Nationality: British Address: Edinburgh, EH8 7AE Telephone: (Work) +44 (0) 131 651 7037 Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 7189 Telephone: (Mobile) +44 (0)7771787092 E-mail: Matthew.Needham@cern.ch

Career

2013-Present Chancellor’s Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2010–2015 STFC Advanced Fellow, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2007–2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL, Switzerland 2005–2007 CERN Fellow, CERN, Switzerland 2002–2005 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Z¨ urich, Switzerland 1999–2002 Postdoctoral Researcher, NIKHEF, The Netherlands

Education

1995–1998 University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics Holder of a Shuttleworth Scholarship at Gonville and Caius College. Thesis Title: “Measurement of the branching ratio and the form factor

• f the decay KL → e+e−γ using the NA48 detector”

1992–1995 Gonville & Caius College (Cambridge), Trinity St., Cambridge, CB2 1TA B.A.(Hons) Natural Sciences (Physics), First Class 1985–1992 Stamford School, St. Pauls St., Stamford, LINCS “A” levels: Chemistry (B), Further Mathematics (A), Mathematics (A), Physics (A). 11 GCSE (9As, 2B)

Teaching

I aim to fully engage undergraduate students in my research. For example the project work I

• ffer allows students to either become involved with cutting edge technologies or analysis of data

from the LHC. Students supervised by me have had the opportunity to present their work at conferences, in journals or to the LHCb collaboration at CERN.

• Personal Tutor in Physics (2016–)
• Advisor Senior Honours group project (2016–)
• Course organizer/Lecturer SUPA Flavour and neutrino physics course (2015–)
• Advisor Research Methods in Physics (Junior Honours) (2015–)
• Demonstrator Junior Honours laboratory (2015–)
• Tutor STFC ’RAL’ summer school (2014–2016). This school is attended by all first year UK

experimental particle physics Ph.D students and provides a formal introduction to subjects such as QCD, QED and Quantum Field Theory.

• Laboratory supervision: Data analysis and handling course (University of Edinburgh 2014–)
• Supervision of 5th year MPhys and MSc projects related to data analysis and detector develop-

ment on the LHCb and HyperK experiments. In total I have supervised 4 projects (University of Edinburgh 2012–) 1

• Supervision of Summer student projects (University of Edinburgh 2013–)
• Co-organizer SUPA DCL course (University of Edinburgh 2012–)
• Supervision of fifteen 4th year Senior Honours projects measuring the muon lifetime using cosmic

rays, advanced photon detectors and performing LHCb data analysis (University of Edinburgh 2012) Teaching prior to appointment in Edinburgh:

• Supervision of 3rd year experimental projects (EPFL Lausanne, 2007–2010).
• 1st year undergraduate MATLAB course (University of Z¨

urich, 2002–2005).

• 1st year undergraduate C++ course (University of Z¨

urich, 2002–2005).

• Tutoring 1st year undergraduates in Physics (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge 1995–1996).

Research Supervision

I have a strong and successful record of supervising Ph.D and diploma students. In total I have supervised fourteen Ph.D students in my career so far.

• Supervision of Ph.D students (Edinburgh, 2010–Present). I am the principle supervisor of A.

Morris who is studying charmless B decays such as B0

s → φφ and M. Taani who is working on

neutrino physics. I co-supervised D. Lambert who performed a precision angular analysis of the B0 → φK∗ mode.

• Informal supervision of six Ph.D students (J. Bressiuex, G. Conti, F. Dupertuis, V. Fave J.

Luisier and L. Nicolas) working on the commissioning of the LHCb Silicon Tracker and analysis

• f first data (EPFL Lausanne, 2007–2010).
• Informal supervision of three Ph.D and Diploma students working on LHCb (Z¨

urich, 2002– 2005).

• Informal supervision of three undergraduates developing the module production database for

the LHCb ST project at the University of Z¨

• urich. (2003–2004)
• Supervision of two Ph.D students at NIKHEF working on LHCb (1999–2001).

In October 2016 I became the PPE group Ph.D Admissions Coordinator.

Research Interests

My research interests has three strands discussed below. Flavour physics I have a strong track record in the field of flavour physics and in studies of CP violation. Since being awarded my Ph.D on the kaon physics experiment NA48 I have worked in the field of b-

• physics. My research is focused on the LHCb experiment and I have rapidly achieved key positions
• f responsibility within the collaboration. I have a wide range of experience covering all aspects
• f the experiment including physics analysis, software development and detector operation. In

particular I led the construction and commissioning of the charged particle tracking system where I was Silicon Tracker Project Leader, resulting in the success of the LHCb physics program and making the experiment the acknowledged world leader in the field of flavour physics. LHCb has published 350 papers so far. One of my major focuses on LHCb is the search for new sources of CP violation in Bs mixing. I led the 2010 untagged analysis of the decays Bs → J/ψφ and Bd → J/ψK∗ which were presented at the 2011 Moriond conference. I also worked on the 2011 analysis of the Bs → J/ψφ decay which resulted in a paper in Phys. Rev. Lett. reporting the world’s most precise measurement of the CP violating parameter φs. More recently I made the first observation of the decay B

s → ψ(2S)K+π−

and the first measurement of the lifetime in the B0

s → J/ψη decay mode.

I also have a strong interest in charmless b-hadron decays. Using Run 1 data I led studies of Triple- Product and CP asymmetries in the golden Bs → φφ mode resulting in several publications. The 2

last of these, published in Phys. Rev. D makes use the full Run 1 dataset to make the first measurement of the Bs mixing phase in this mode. I am involved in studies of several other charmless b-decay modes: precision measurements in the B0 → φK∗ decay mode together with first observations of the modes Bs → φf0(980) and Bs → φf

′

2(1520) decay modes.

I am an acknowledged expert in studies related to b-hadron and charmonia production. In De- cember 2011 I became convener of the b-hadron and Quarkonia Working Group. As such I led studies of b-hadron and quarkonium production which provide important tests of NRQCD. The large dataset already collected by LHCb has allowed the study of the production of J/ψ and other

• nia with unprecedented precision over a range of centre-of-mass energies. I pioneered studies of

double hidden charm and associated hidden and open charm production. These are important new tests of the production mechanism and probe contributions from double parton scattering. This work resulted in a paper on double J/ψ production published in Phys. Lett. B and a paper

• n associated hidden and open charm production published in JHEP. I also initiated studies of

the exotic XYZ states at LHCb performing a measurements of the production and properties of the X(3872) meson which was published in Eur. Phys. J. European Physical Journal. As part of these efforts I also carried out precision measurements of D-meson masses whose knowledge is vital for understanding the nature of the X(3872). Studies of XYZ states at LHCb have subsequently blossomed with observations of several candidate charm pentaquark states. The overall studies of the group are summarized in the ’Implications of LHCb measurements’ document that has been published in Eur. Phys. J. together with directions for future study. For the 2019 upgrade of LHCb Edinburgh is responsible for the testing of the photo-detectors of the RICH detectors (MaPMTs). I took a leading role in tests of MaPMT performance in magnetic field and designing mu-metal magnetic shields. This work is detailed in the RICH upgrade TDR. I am now involved in the final tests of the MaPMT performance in the laboratory and testbeam and contributing to the setting of the test setups which use the MAROC readout chip. I also contributed to the testbeam activities for the upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Detector. Neutrinos I am now beginning to focus my efforts on the field of neutrino physics and I initiated the Ed- inburgh group’s efforts in this area. This is an exciting and growing field. The next generation

• f experiments may discover CP violation in the neutrino sector and shed important light on

the matter asymmetry of our Universe. In May 2014 I joined the HyperK experiment - a next generation long baseline neutrino experiment in Japan that will begin running in 2025. I am the Principle Investigator of the Edinburgh group in this activity. I obtained funding for a Research Assistant from STFC and a Ph.D student in this area has started this year. Our current activities are focussed on the design and optimization of the proposed new intermediate detector. I am looking to broaden and strengthen the group’s activities in this new field and further funding is actively being sought. A UK wide pre-construction bid is with STFC. To strengthen our capabilities in this area we have joined the ANNIE experiment at Fermilab and are ivestigating the possibility of joining the DUNE experiment. Detector Development Advanced detector development underpins particle physics research. I have a strong track record in the development of silicon microstrip detectors for the tracking system of the LHCb experiment at CERN and tests of pixel detectors for the LHCb upgrade. Since coming to Edinburgh I have become involved in the group’s activities related to advanced single photon-detection. For neutrino and other applications I am studying the performance of large area HPDs and a novel new technology based on micro-channel plates - the LAPPD. These devices have superb timing and position resolution and will revolutionize single photon detector. I have obtained one

• f the first prototypes of this device and together with students made first tests in the laboratory.

In collaboration with the University of Sheffield and Argonne National Laboratory (USA) we are planning to take these studies further and have applied for funding from STFC. 3

Research Grants

• 2015–2019 Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Edinburgh, awarded £2, 384, 700

as Co-Investigator on the group Consolidated Grant

• 2014–2017 UK Strategy for Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments, awarded £73, 557 (0.5 RA

FTE), Principle investigator leading Edinburgh groups efforts in R+D for the planned Hyper- K experiment. A follow-up pre-construction bid is now with STFC for consideration

• 2014–2020 LHCb Upgrade: Beyond the Energy Frontier, awarded £345, 597, Co-investigator on

the UK LHCb upgrade project grant to work on development of MaPMTs for the LHCb RICH.

• 2012–2016 Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Edinburgh, Awarded £2, 075, 190

as Co-investigator on the group Consolidated Grant

• 2010–2015 STFC Advanced Fellowship, awarded £454, 144. The award of the grant funded my

research activities for five years

Outreach and Impact

I take part in LHCb outreach activities, giving tours of the experiment and talks for visiting

• dignitaries. As LHCb-UK physics coordinator I worked to disseminate LHCb physics results both

to the wider High Energy Physics community and also to the public via regular press releases on exciting results. In addition I am actively involved in the activities of Particle Physics for Scottish Schools (PP4S). This aims to support Physics teachers and engage students in particle physics. I took part in the 2013 LHC roadshow held at the Scottish Parliament and help with the PP4S drop in stand at the annual Edinburgh Science Festival and University open day. As part of this work I coordinated the building of a model LEGO ’collider’ that we use at outreach events. One of my research interests is in single photon detector technology. Such devices have widespread applications in medical and nuclear imaging and photonics. I have developed contacts with the photonics group at Heriot-Watt and intend to engage with the newly created Higgs Centre for Innovation.

Convenerships, committee membership and management roles

• Principle Investigator for the Edinburgh Hyper-K group.
• Edinburgh representative on the UK Particle Physics Users Advisory Committee (PPUAC),

2013–Present.

• LHCb-UK Physics Coordinator: December 2012 – December 2014. I was responsible for

coordination on physics issues between the UK institutes on LHCb and help to provide informa- tion for funding requests.

• Convener of the LHCb b-hadron and Quarkonia Working Group: January 2012 –

January 2013. This is one of eight LHCb physics working groups and consists of around 25 physi-

• cists. The group is responsible for measurements of the properties of b-hadrons, exotic mesons

and studies of Quarkonia production. It is one of the most productive working groups on LHCb with seventy papers published so far.

• Member of the LHCb Physics Planning Group: December 2010 – December 2012, which

is responsible for determining the overall physics strategy and of the experiment and ensuring that these goals are met.

• Deputy convener of the LHCb Production and Spectroscopy Working Group: De-

cember 2010 – December 2011. This group was responsible for a broad range of physics from soft and hard QCD to electroweak and quarkonia studies.

• LHCb Silicon Tracker Project Leader: December 2008 – December 2010. I led the con-

struction and commissioning of two key sub-detectors managing a team of forty physicists and engineers. 4

• Member of the LHCb Technical Board, December 2008 – December 2010, which manages

the detector construction, maintenance and safe operation.

• LHCb Silicon Tracker Deputy Project Leader: July 2008 – November 2008.
• LHCb Tracking Software Coordinator: November 2005 – November 2007. I led the devel-
• pment of track reconstruction software for the experiment organizing meetings and workshops

attended by around 30 people.

• LHCb Silicon Tracker Software Coordinator: March 2002 – November 2005.

Conference Organization

• Organizing committee Higgs Centre Exotic Hadron Workshop, Edinburgh, September 2016.

This workshop was funded by small awards from the Higgs Centre/SUPA/IOP and STFC and brought together experts from the nuclear and particle physics communities with the aim of fos- tering new collaborations.

• Local organizing committee and proceedings editor for the 15th International Conference
• n B-Physics at Frontier Machines (Beauty), Edinburgh 2014.
• Organizing Committee of the UK-Flavour workshop, Durham, September 2013.
• Local Organizing Committee of the 2011 CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer

School.

• Local organizing committee of the 479. WE-Heraeus-Seminar. “Physics at LHCb” (Bad Honnef

2011).

• Principle organizer of the International Workshop on Tracking In High Multiplicity Environ-

ments (TIME05), Z¨ urich, 2005.

Invited talks and conference contributions

I am regularly invited to present my work at international conferences.

• 1. b-hadron production and properties at LHCb

QCD@LHC, Z¨ urich, 22nd–26th August 2016

• 2. CP violation, mixing and semi-leptonic decays of beauty at the LHC, Plenary review talk,

LHCP Conference 2016, Lund, Sweden, 13th–18th June 2016

• 3. Heavy flavour production at the LHC, Plenary review talk ,QCD@LHC, Queen Mary

University of London, 1st–5th September 2015

• 4. Early LHCb measurements focusing on b and Charm production at 13 TeV, QCD@LHC,

Queen Mary University of London, 1st–5th September 2015

• 5. b-baryon mass and lifetime measurements

LHCb baryon workshop, CERN, 24th July 2014

• 6. Measurement of the phase of B0

s mixing with B0 s → φφ, ICHEP Valencia, 2nd–9th July 2014

• 7. Spectroscopy at LHCb

Beauty 2013, Bologna, 8th–12th April 2013

• 8. LHCb results on hadronic penguin decays

Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects. CERN, 16th April 2012

• 9. Status of LHCb

108th LHCC Open Session, CERN, 7th December 2011

• 10. XYZ States at LHC.

International Workshop on Heavy Quarkonium 2011 GSI Darmstadt, 4th–7th October 2011 5

• 11. Calibration, alignment and understanding the LHCb detector with early data

CHIPP meeting on the High Energy Frontier, Z¨ urich, 1st September 2010

• 12. LHCb Silicon Tracker operations and performance with first data

19th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors, Loch Lomond, 6th–11th June 2010

• 13. Performance of the LHCb Silicon Tracker with first data

11th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Applications, Como, 5th–9th October 2009

• 14. Charmonia and bottom production measurements with J/ψ events at LHCb

XVII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering, Madrid, 26th–30th April 2009

• 15. Status and expectations for first physics with LHCb

Advanced Studies Institute: Symmetries and Spin Prague, 20th–26th July 2008

• 16. Status of the LHCb experiment.

CHIPP Plenary Meeting, PSI, 15th October 2007

• 17. Physics with LHCb.

LHC Days in Split, 2nd–7th October 2006

• 18. Status and expected performance of the LHCb tracking system.

Proceedings of Beauty 2005, Assisi, 20th–24th June 2005 Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 156(2006) 217-220

• 19. The LHCb Silicon Tracker.

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Large Scale Applications and Radiation Hardness of Semiconductor Detectors, Firenze, Italy, 29th September – 2nd October, 2003 NIM A530 (2004) 23-27

• 20. Tracking in LHCb.

Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on LHC Physics and Detectors. Chia, Sardinia, Italy, 25th–27th October 2001

• 21. Nikhef on LHCb: Status Report.

Invited talk at the Nikhef annual physics meeting, Amsterdam, 14th December 2000.

• 22. New Measurements on Rare Decays of Neutral Kaons from the NA48 experiment.

Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics,Tampere, Finland 1999 pages 546-547.

Seminars

• 1. ’LHCb: A different flavour’

University of Bristol, 8th May 2013

• 2. ’Searching for New Physics in B0

s meson decays with LHCb’

University of Birmingham 22nd February 2012

• 3. ’Reconstruction software for the LHCb experiment’.

DESY Computing Seminar, 30th May 2005.

• 4. ’The LHCb Silicon Tracker’

University of Dortmund, 3rd May 2005

• 5. ’The LHCb Silicon Tracker’

Rupert-Karls Universtit¨ at Heidelberg, 14th April 2005

Publications as a principle author

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The following are publications where I made a significant contribution and can be considered as a main author. A full list of my 391 publications to date is attached as separate document.

• 1. Characterisation and testing of a prototype 6 × 6 cm2 Argonne MCP-PMT

To appear in the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors (RICH 2016) Bled, Slovenia, 5th–9th September 2016

• G. Cowan et al.
• 2. Observation of the decay B0

s → φπ+π− and evidence for B0 → φπ+π−

Accepted by Phys. Rev. D. The LHCb collaboration

• 3. TITUS: the Tokai Intermediate Tank for the Unoscillated Spectrum

arXiv:1606.08114 TITUS working group

• 4. Measurement of the B0

s → J/ψη lifetime

• Phys. Lett. B762 (484-492) 2016

The LHCb collaboration

• 5. Production of associated Υ and open charm hadrons in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV

via double parton scattering JHEP 1607 (2016) 052 The LHCb collaboration

• 6. Observation of Λ0

b → ψ(2S)pK− and Λ0 b → J/ψπ+π−pK− decays and a measurement of the

Λ0

b baryon mass

JHEP 1605 (2016) 132 The LHCb collaboration

• 7. Measurement of the B0

s → φφ branching fraction and search for the decay B0 → φφ

JHEP 1510 (2015) 053 The LHCb collaboration

• 8. Observation of the decay B

s → ψ(2S)K+π−

• Phys. Lett. B747 (484-494) 2015

The LHCb collaboration

• 9. Measurement of the lifetime of the B+

c meson using the B+ c → J/ψπ+ decay mode

• Phys. Lett. B742 (29-37) 2015

The LHCb collaboration

• 10. Heavy Flavour Physics at the LHC
• T. Gershon and M. Needham

Review article for Comptes Rendus Physique 16 (2015) 435-447

• 11. Characterisation and magnetic field properties of multianode photomultiplier tubes
• S. Eisenhardt et. al.

NIM A 766(2014) 167-170

• 12. Measurement of CP violation in B0

s → φφ decays

Phys Rev. D90, 052011 (2014) The LHCb Collaboration

• 13. Measurement of polarization amplitudes and CP asymmetries in B0 → φK∗(892)0

JHEP05(2014)069 The LHCb Collaboration 7

• 14. Precision measurements of D meson mass differences

JHEP06(2013)065 The LHCb Collaboration

• 15. Observation of B+

c → J/ψD+ s and B+ c → J/ψD∗+ s

decays

• Phys. Rev. D 87, 112012 (2013)

The LHCb Collaboration

• 16. Production of J/ψ and Υ mesons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

JHEP 1306 (2013) 064 The LHCb Collaboration

• 17. First measurement of the CP-violating phase ϕs in hadronic B0

s → φφ decays

• Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 241802 (2013)

The LHCb Collaboration

• 18. Measurement of the Λ0

b, Ξ− b and Ω− b baryon masses

• Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 182001 (2013)

The LHCb Collaboration

• 19. Implications of LHCb measurements
• Eur. Phys. J C 73 (2013) 2373

The LHCb Collaboration and others

• 20. Observation of double charm production involving open charm in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

JHEP06(2012) 141 The LHCb Collaboration

• 21. Measurement of the polarization amplitudes and triple product asymmetries in B0

s → φφ

• Phys. Lett. B713 (369-377) 2012

The LHCb Collaboration

• 22. Observation of X(3872) production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV .
• Eur. Phys. J. C72 (1972) 2012

The LHCb Collaboration

• 23. Measurement of b-hadron masses
• Phys. Lett. B708 (241-248) 2012

The LHCb Collaboration

• 24. Measurement of the CP-violating phase φs in the decay B0

s → J/ψφ

• Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 101803 (2012)

The LHCb Collaboration

• 25. Observation of J/ψ pair production in pp collisions of √s = 7 TeV .
• Phys. Lett. B707 (52-59) 2012

The LHCb Collaboration

• 26. Measurement of J/ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV .
• Eur. Phys. J. C71 (1645) 2011

The LHCb Collaboration

• 27. Application of vertex and mass constraints in track-based alignment
• J. Amoraal et. al

NIM A712 48-55 (2013)

• 28. Charged Particle Tracking with the Timepix ASIC
• K. Akiba et. al

NIM 661 31-49 (2012) 8

• 29. LHCb Silicon Tracker operations and performance with first data

Pos VERTEX2010 008 (2010) The LHCb Silicon Tracker Group

• 30. Tracking stations alignment with Kalman tracks at LHCb

Proceeding of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Dresden 2008

• L. Nicolas et. al
• 31. The LHCb Silicon Tracker

NIM A530 23-27 (2004) The LHCb Silicon Tracker Group

• 32. Measurement of the Decay Rate and Form Factor Parameter αK∗ in the Decay KL → e+e−γ.
• Phys. Lett. B458 (553-563) 1999

The NA48 Collaboration. 9