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School of Physical and Chemical Sciences

Professor Adrian Bevan

Adrian

Head of School | Professor of Physics

Email: a.j.bevan@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 106
Website: https://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~bevan/abevan.html

Profile

Adrian Bevan is a member of the Particle Physics Research Centre. He is a Turing Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research interests focus on the search for physics beyond the Standard Model at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, where he applies modern data science techniques, including deep learning to data from CERN, and works on the construction of next generation detectors for that facility.  He is also working on development of organic radiation detectors and recently joined the DUNE collaboration to search for CP violation in neutrinos.

Adrian completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2000 working on the NA48 experiment at CERN. He then moved to the University of Liverpool as a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (now SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) operated by Stanford in California. In 2003 he was awarded a Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council personal Fellowship to continue working on BaBar, and joined QMUL in 2006 as a Lecturer. In 2010 he was appointed to the position of Reader in Particle Physics, and in 2016 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and was appointed as a Professor in 2020.

CP violation is the study of matter-antimatter asymmetry.  Adrian studied this phenomenon for much of his career, searching for and measuring different CP violation effects in K, B and D mesons using data from NA47 and BaBar, working on designing new experiments to continue that study, and also writing a number of phenomenology papers. His phenomenology work includes the study of the discrete symmetries C, P, T, CP and CPT.  

From 2008 through 2013 Adrian led the physics programme of a proposed Super Flavour Factory, referred to as the SuperB experiment. His group also worked on silicon detector development related to the design and construction of a vertex detector for SuperB. In 2008 he started work on the ATLAS tracker upgrade programme at CERN, and has led the QMUL group effort in this area since 2010.  We are proud contributors to the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade project.   In 2012 he joined the ATLAS experiment at CERN to study rare decays and properties of the Higgs boson.  

Adrian has worked on the development of CMOS based pixel technology for possible use in future experiments such as SuperB and the upgrade of the ATLAS tracker, silicon trackers for the ATLAS experiment for the High Luminosity LHC and CERN, as well as developing new technology for radiation detection. This generic work includes ultra thin (low mass) tracking detectors and Helium-3 alternative thermal neutron detectors.  This work includes the development of organic semiconductor radiation detectors.

 

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