Personal profile
Personal profile
Leadership Roles
International
2020 - CERN Users Committee UK Representative
2020-2022 ATLAS Collaboration D&I Contact
National
2025 - STFC Science Board Member
2024 - IoP Jocelyn Bell Burnell PG Scholarship Fund Assessment Panel
2022 - IoP Degree Accreditation Assessor
2022 - IoP Women In Physics Group Treasurer
2020-23 Particle Physics Advisory Panel (PPAP)
2020- Particle Physics Users Advisory Committee (PPUAC)
2020 - IoP HEPP Group Secretary (20-24) /Member (24- )
2011-2017 IoP Project Juno Assessment Panel
College-level
2024- Chair of Inclusive Recruitment Working Group
2020- EDI Governance Member
2020-23 Academic Board Member
School-level
2024- Vice-Dean of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for School of Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences (EPMS)
2021-24 Director of External Engagement for School of Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences (EPMS)
2020 - EPMS EDI Committee Member
Departmental
2007-17, 2022-23 Director of EDI, Physics Department
2007-10, 2021-22 Director of External Engagement / Outreach
Personal profile
I am searching for evidence of new physics in data observed using the ATLAS detector. This detector is positioned at one of the four proton-proton collision points of the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. I am particularly interested in searching in the high mass dielectron (ee), dimuon (μμ) and diphoton (γγ) events. Many beyond the Standard Model theories predict new high mass particles, such as Z' bosons (→ee, μμ) or Gravitons (→ee, μμ, γγ) which could decay into these channels.
Personal profile
Graduated in physics from St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford in 1999 (MPhys). D. Phil in Particle Physics from Oxford, St. Edmund Hall 2002. PPARC Post doctoral research Fellow in Particle Physics, from 2002 till 2005 searching for evidence of new physics on the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) at University of Liverpool. Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London, Particle Physics ATLAS Group.
As well as physics, I'm interested in sports, gardening and general fun outdoors pursuits!
Teaching
I (am)....
- Course leader for a second year mathematics and third year Particle Physics course.
- Tutor to ~ 8 UG per year and personal tutor
- Previously, demonstrated for first year laboratories.
- Supervise third and fourth year project students, who are interested in searching for evidence of new physics using the ATLAS detector.
- Supervise PhD students.
- Supervise summer students, who are interested in searching for evidence of new physics using the ATLAS detector.
I used to be deputy admission tutor for RHUL physics department.
Education/Academic qualification
Particle Physics, PhD, Search for new physics in two muon events using the Collider Detector at Fermilab, University of Oxford
Sept 1999 → Oct 2002
Award Date: 2 Oct 2022
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Measurement of the associated production of a top-antitop-quark pair and a Higgs boson decaying into a bb¯ pair in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
ATLAS Collaboration, 24 Feb 2025, In: European Physical Journal C. 85, 2, 210.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Deep Generative Models for Fast Photon Shower Simulation in ATLAS
The ATLAS Collaboration , Aad, G., Abhayasinghe, D. K., Berry, T., Boisvert, V., Booth, C. D., Cowan, G., George, S., Gibson, S. M., Lawlor, S. D., Lefebvre, H. P., Panduro Vazquez, J. G., Pastore, F., Shinner, J. D., Spano, F., Teixeira-Dias, P., Thomas, D. W. & Verschuuren, P. J., 5 Mar 2024, In: Computing and Software for Big Science. 8, 40 p., 7.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access -
Interpretations of the ATLAS measurements of Higgs boson production and decay rates and differential cross-sections in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV
The ATLAS collaboration, 15 Nov 2024, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024, 11, 89 p., 97.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Search for pair-produced higgsinos decaying via Higgs or Z bosons to final states containing a pair of photons and a pair of b-jets with the ATLAS detector
The ATLAS Collaboration , Aad, G., Ahuja, S., Berry, T., Boisvert, V., Booth, C. D., Cowan, G., Evans, L. S., George, S., Gibson, S. M., Hampshire, E. J., Lawlor, S. D., Lefebvre, H. P., Malito, D., Panduro Vazquez, J. G., Pastore, F., Shinner, J. D., Teixeira-Dias, P., Thomas, D. W. & Verschuuren, P. J., Sept 2024, In: Physics Letters B. 856, 24 p., 138938.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Software Performance of the ATLAS Track Reconstruction for LHC Run 3
The ATLAS Collaboration , Ahuja, S., Berry, T., Boisvert, V., Booth, C. D., Cowan, G., Evans, L. S., George, S., Gibson, S. M., Hampshire, E. J., Lefebvre, H. P., Malito, D., Panduro Vazquez, J. G., Pastore, F., Shinner, J. D., Teixeira-Dias, P. & Thomas, D. W., 2 Apr 2024, In: Computing and Software for Big Science. 8, 32 p., 9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
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Experimental Consolidated Grant for RHUL 2024
Boisvert, V. (PI), George, S. (Researcher), Pastore, F. (Researcher), Green, B. (Researcher), Malito, D. (Researcher), Skwarczynski, K. (Researcher), Berry, T. (CoI), Casey, A. (CoI), Cowan, G. (CoI), Gibson, S. (CoI), Kaboth, A. (CoI), Saunders, J. (CoI) & Teixeira-Dias, P. (CoI)
1/10/25 → 30/09/29
Project: Research
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Responsive PDRA applications for Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London
Boisvert, V. (PI), Teixeira-Dias, P. (CoI), Berry, T. (CoI), Monroe, J. (CoI), Kaboth, A. (CoI), Pickering, L. (CoI), West, S. (CoI) & Cowan, G. (CoI)
1/04/23 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
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Consolidated Grant for the Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London
Boisvert, V. (PI), Teixeira-Dias, P. (CoI), Cowan, G. (CoI), Berry, T. (CoI), Kaboth, A. (CoI), Monroe, J. (CoI), Gibson, S. (CoI), West, S. (CoI) & Boogert, S. (CoI)
1/10/22 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
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Consolidated Grant for the Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway,University of London
Boisvert, V. (PI), Cowan, G. (CoI), Teixeira-Dias, P. (CoI), Berry, T. (CoI), Gibson, S. (CoI), Karataev, P. (CoI), Monroe, J. (CoI), Kaboth, A. (CoI), West, S. (CoI), Walding, J. (CoI) & George, S. (CoI)
1/10/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Particle Physics Capital Equipment Request
Cowan, G. (PI), Berry, T. (CoI), Boisvert, V. (CoI), Boogert, S. (CoI), Gibson, S. (CoI), Kauer, N. (CoI), Monroe, J. (CoI), Kaboth, A. (CoI), Teixeira-Dias, P. (CoI), West, S. (CoI) & Walding, J. (CoI)
1/01/17 → 30/09/19
Project: Research