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David Charlton

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David Charlton
FRS FInstP
David Charlton
David Charlton at the Royal Society admissions day in 2014
Born
David George Charlton
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisA search for the top quark at the CERN proton-antiproton collider (1988)
Websitebirmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/physics/charlton-david.aspx

David George Charlton FRS FInstP is Professor of Particle Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK.[2][3] From 2013 to 2017, he served as Spokesperson (scientific head) of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.[4] Prior to becoming Spokesperson, he was Deputy Spokesperson for four years, and before that Physics Coordinator of ATLAS in the run-up to the start of collision data-taking.[5][6]

Education

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Charlton was educated at the University of Oxford,[3] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1985. He went on to study for a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Birmingham, which he was awarded in 1989[5][7] for work on the UA1 experiment, searching for the top quark.[1]

Career and research

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Charlton's research investigates the Higgs mechanism and electroweak symmetry breaking.[8][9][10][11][12][13] He is regarded as a leader in the experimental elucidation of electroweak symmetry-breaking, culminating in the observation and first characterisation of a Higgs boson, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).[14] His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).[15]

From 1989 to 2001, Charlton worked on the OPAL experiment of the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN, on data analysis, components of the trigger and data acquisition systems, and the identification of muons.[citation needed] His work helped to provide the first measurement there of the yield of Z decays, before measurement of the fraction decaying to bottom quarks.[14] Later he led the measurements which directly demonstrated the gauge structure of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model.

At the LHC, he led physics preparations in the year before first collisions, acted as ATLAS Deputy Spokesperson throughout the first three-year running period, and was the collaboration's Spokesperson from 2013–2017.[14] During the construction of the ATLAS experiment, he worked on hybrid readout circuits for the silicon strip sensors of the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector and on the first-level calorimeter trigger system.

As a professor at the University of Birmingham, he conceived and led design group studies for Year 3 undergraduate students for several years, and also introduced and taught a Year 4 module named Current Topics in Particle Physics.[citation needed] His lecturing was in abeyance whilst he held the position of Spokesperson at ATLAS.[5]

Awards and honours

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Charlton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[14] In 2017, Charlton was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for his leadership in experimental particle physics.[16] He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)[when?] and awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) in 1994.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Buzz: David Charlton... in my own words" (PDF). birmingham.ac.uk. University of Birmingham. June 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  2. ^ David Charlton publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Charlton, David". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281972. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "David Charlton - Atlas spokesperson". ATLAS experiment. CERN. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  5. ^ a b c "Professor David Charlton". School of Physics and Astronomy. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Scientific publications of David Charlton". inspirehep.net. INSPIRE-HEP.
  7. ^ Charlton, David George (1988). A search for the top quark at the CERN proton-antiproton collider. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). OCLC 911142973. Copac 45440620. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  8. ^ Newman, Paul; Hillier, Steve; Charlton, David (3 August 2012). The Search for the Higgs Boson (YouTube video). University of Birmingham. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  9. ^ Alexander, G.; Allison, J.; Altekamp, N.; et al. (1995). "A comparison of b and uds quark jets to gluon jets". Zeitschrift für Physik C. 69 (1): 543–560. doi:10.1007/BF02907439. hdl:2066/124578. ISSN 0170-9739. S2CID 189910456.
  10. ^ Akrawy, M.Z.; Alexander, G.; Allison, J.; et al. (1989). "Measurement of the Z0 mass and width with the opal detector at LEP" (PDF). Physics Letters B. 231 (4): 530–538. Bibcode:1989PhLB..231..530A. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(89)90705-3. ISSN 0370-2693.
  11. ^ Akers, R.; Alexander, G.; Allison, J.; et al. (1995). "Observations of π-B charge-flavor correlations and resonant Bπ and BK production". Zeitschrift für Physik C. 66 (1–2): 19–29. Bibcode:1995ZPhyC..66...19A. doi:10.1007/BF01496577. hdl:2066/124550. ISSN 0170-9739. S2CID 119932583.
  12. ^ Alexander, G.; Allison, J.; Allport, P. P.; et al. (1991). "Measurement of the Z0 line shape parameters and the electroweak couplings of charged leptons" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Physik C. 52 (2): 175–207. Bibcode:1991ZPhyC..52..175A. doi:10.1007/BF01560437. ISSN 0170-9739. S2CID 119333172.
  13. ^ Albajar, C.; Albrow, M.G.; Allkofer, O.C.; et al. (1990). "A study of the general characteristics of proton-antiproton collisions at √s=0.2 to 0.9 TeV". Nuclear Physics B. 335 (2): 261–287. Bibcode:1990NuPhB.335..261A. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(90)90493-W. ISSN 0550-3213.
  14. ^ a b c d Anon (2014). "Professor David Charlton FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  15. ^ "David Charlton, University of Birmingham". Gateway to Research. Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  16. ^ "Birmingham professor of particle physics receives Institute of Physics medal for leadership". University of Birmingham. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.

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