Centre for Particle Physics
at Royal Holloway Academic Staff

Prof. Grahame Blair joined the particle physics group in 1993 and in February 2003 was promoted to Professor of Particle Physics. His DPhil was in theoretical particle physics and since then he has worked as an experimentalist based at CERN, DESY and Fermilab. He is collaborating with international groups on physics and accelerator studies for an international linear collider. He currently holds a Bessel Scientific Prize from the Humboldt Foundation.

Dr Stewart Boogert joined the particle physics group from UCL as a lecturer in December 2005. He's research interests include the aspects of the design of a linear accelerator which effect it's important physics goals. These include measurement of the Luminosity spectrum and the effect on the measurement of top mass from threshold scans. For the past two years, he has been working on the PETRA laserwire project, in collaboration with DESY. 

Dr Glen Cowan is a senior lecturer in particle physics. He is a member of the BaBar experiment at SLAC and was also a member of the ALEPH experiment at CERN throughout the LEP programme. His research interests include hadron production in electron-positron collisions, studying CP violation in decays of B mesons, and developing statistical methods of data analysis.

Dr Antonella De Santo joined the department as a lecturer in Particle Physics at the beginning of June 2003. Before coming to Royal Holloway, her main research interests have been in different aspects of neutrino physics. She has worked on the NOMAD experiment at CERN for several years. More recently she has been working on the US-based long-baseline experiment MINOS and on the HARP experiment at CERN. She has joined the ATLAS group at RHUL and will be concentrating on physics studies.

Prof. Mike Green has worked on the ALEPH experiment since 1985, well before it began operation, and was part of the UK effort building the electromagnetic calorimeter. He is a member of the BaBar collaboration and the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science.

Dr Pavel Karataev joined the particle physics group as a lecturer on 1 February 2007. He was previously a Research Associate, and works alongside Prof Grahame Blair on the International Linear Collider.

Dr Tania McMahon joined the department as a lecturer in Particle Physics in September 2000. Since 1998 she has been working on the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. She was involved in the analysis which first demonstrated the existence of CP violation in B meson decays. Her current research activities involve data analysis to study aspects of the theory of CP violation.

Dr Pedro Teixeira-Dias joined the particle physics group in January 2001. He is a Senior Lecturer and a member of the ATLAS experiment which is being installed in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Prof. Ken Peach is newly appointed Director of The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. He has been one of the leaders in emphasising the importance of accelerator physics and has played a leading role in work towards establishing the feasibility of a "neutrino factory" and in the recent approval by PPARC and the Office of Science and Technology of the MICE project to demonstrate an important accelerator physics technique in this area.