Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)

Profile

Professor Glenn Patrick is a particle physicist from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he has worked on major international experiments at high energy accelerators. Most recently, his research has focussed on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, studying the subtle differences between matter and antimatter produced in proton-proton collisions. He was also a leading member of the GridPP collaboration, which constructed the UK part of the worldwide LHC Computing Grid used to process the vast amounts of data flowing from the LHC. Previously, he worked on the OPAL experiment at the Large Electron Positron (LEP) Collider studying the decays of Z and W bosons (the weak force carriers) and measuring the number of light neutrinos. In earlier times, he studied the photo-production of vector mesons using tagged photon beams from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and the NINA electron synchrotron at Daresbury Laboratory.

Career

2012   -                Visiting Professor, University of Portsmouth

2012   -                Honorary Scientist, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

1978   -                Scientific Associate, CERN

2009   - 2012       Deputy Division Leader, Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

2009   - 2012       Research Group Leader, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

1983   - 2012       Principal Scientist, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

1981   - 1983       CERN Fellow, European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva

1978   - 1981       Research Associate, Dept. Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow

1975   - 1978       University of Lancaster, PhD in Particle Physics. Thesis: “Elastic j-Meson Photo-production from Hydrogen between 2.8 and 4.8 GeV”.

1972   - 1975       University of Lancaster, BSc (Hons) in Physics

Professional Record

Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) 2006

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) 2005

Chartered Physicist (CPhys) 1979

Teaching

Year 2 - Quantum, Atomic and Nuclear Physics (SEES522)

Year 3 - Particle Physics (SEES635)

Current Research Interests

CP violation in B meson decays, electroweak physics and simulation of electromagnetic processes, as well as wider interests in cosmic rays and neutrino physics.

Publications

Over 550 publications published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Full list of publications.