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 David Charlton at theRoyal Society admissions day in 2014 | |
| Born | David George Charlton |
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| Thesis | A search for the top quark at the CERN proton-antiproton collider (1988) |
| Website | birmingham |
David George CharltonFRS FInstP is Professor ofParticle Physics in the School ofPhysics andAstronomy at theUniversity of Birmingham, UK.[2][3] From 2013 to 2017, he served as Spokesperson (scientific head) of theATLAS experiment at theLarge Hadron Collider atCERN.[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]
Charlton was educated at the University of Oxford,[3] graduating with aBachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1985. He went on to study for aPhD in Particle Physics at the University of Birmingham, which he was awarded in 1989[5][7] for work on theUA1 experiment, searching for thetop quark.[1]
Charlton's research investigates theHiggs mechanism and electroweak symmetry breaking.[8][9][10][11][12][13] He is regarded as a leader in the experimental elucidation ofelectroweaksymmetry-breaking, culminating in the observation and first characterisation of aHiggs boson, at theLarge Hadron Collider (LHC).[14] His research has been funded by theScience and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).[15]
From 1989 to 2001, Charlton worked on the OPAL experiment of theLarge Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN, on data analysis, components of thetrigger and data acquisition systems, and the identification ofmuons.[citation needed] His work helped to provide the first measurement there of the yield ofZ decays, before measurement of the fraction decaying tobottom quarks.[14] Later he led the measurements which directly demonstrated the gauge structure of the electroweak sector of theStandard Model.
At the LHC, he led physics preparations in the year before first collisions, acted asATLAS 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 hybridreadout circuits for the silicon strip sensors of the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector and on the first-levelcalorimeter 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 namedCurrent Topics in Particle Physics.[citation needed] His lecturing was in abeyance whilst he held the position of Spokesperson at ATLAS.[5]
Charlton was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[14] In 2017, Charlton was awarded theRichard Glazebrook Medal and Prize by theInstitute of Physics for his leadership in experimental particle physics.[16] He was elected aFellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)[when?] and awarded aRoyal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) in 1994.[1]
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