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Details for Professor Jonas Rademacker
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| Name | Professor Jonas Rademacker | ||
| Job title | Professor of Physics |
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| Department | School of Physics University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | M.Sc.(Soton.), Ph.D.(Oxon.) | ||
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| Keywords | LHCb Flavour Physics B physics CP violation Charm Physics Dalitz Plots matter antimatter asymmetry CKM matrix |
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| Areas of expertise | My particle physics research focuses on "quark flavour physics" at the LHCb experiment at CERN and the (now closed) CLEO-c experiment at Cornell. This research is closely related to CP violation, the fundamental difference between matter and antimatter. CP violation is required to explain the matter-antimatter imbalance of the universe, i.e. the fact matter and antimatter created in the beginning have not annihilated completely, but some matter (that's us!) is left over. Quark flavour physics is the precision study of how quarks change from one type (say "top") to another (e.g. "down"). New particles, predicted in many theories, can affect these flavour changes. The clue is that these new particles can be even heavier than heaviest particles directly produced at the highest energy colliders - we can see "beyond the energy frontier". The new data from LHCb allow a completely new level of precision and thus New Physics sensitivity. |
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| Media experience | none |
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