Professor Mike Green

Particle Physics Group

Mike Green's research interests currently centre on CALICE, an R&D project for a calorimeter for a detector at a future International Linear Collider. He is UK Project manager for the project.

During the 1980s he was a member of the UK team that built the electromagnetic calorimeter for the ALEPH detector at LEP. From 1989 he and his Royal Holloway colleagues used the detector to explore a number of areas of particle physics including:

• searches for new phenomena and particles such as excited states of the fundamental fermions and supersymmetric particles
• quantum chromodynamics
• behaviour of particles containing a b quark
• mass limits on the tau neutrino

Data taking at LEP ended in 2000 and analysis of the data was completed in 2003.

From 1995 to 2004 he was a member of the BaBar collaboration at SLAC, Stanford. The principal aim of this project is to measure the small asymmetry in the decay of B mesons and their antiparticles (known as CP violation) that is thought to play a crucial role in the dominance of matter over antimatter in the Universe.

During the 1990s he was a member of several PPARC committees responsible for providing advice on strategy and policy in particle physics research in the UK. He has served on PPARC/STFC advisory bodies for the public understanding of science in the UK and is currently chair of the committee advising STFC on public promotion of the Large Hadron Collider. He is chair of the High Energy particle Physics Group of the Institute of Physics.

His teaching interests include particle physics, quantum mechanics, experimental physics and communication skills. He has a strong interest in the public engagement in science, particularly working with school pupils and their teachers and has received several grants to further this activity. He was chair of the Institute of Physics' Committee that organises Update Courses for Physics Teachers until August 2000. He has served on PPARC advisory bodies for the public understanding of science in the UK and is currently chair of the committee advising PPARC on public promotion of the Large Hadron Collider.

From 2000 to 2005 he was Dean of the Faculty of Science at Royal Holloway and a member of several College committees including Academic Board, Finance Committee and Council.