
Professor Helen Heath
M.A.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(Bristol), C.Phys. M.Inst.P, SFHEA
Current positions
University Education Director (Quality)
Education Quality and StrategyProfessor
School of Physics
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Biography
I am currently involved with the NA62 and CMS experiments at CERN. The former makes precision measurements of kaon decays and the CMS experiment is working at the energy frontier and was one of the two experiments to discover the Higgs boson.
Education interests:I was an academic fellow in the Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching looking at programme level assessment. I am involved with the Belonging and Engagement for Successful Transition (BEST) project looking into factors that affect successful transition into University Study in Physics and I am also part of a small group commissioned by the Institute of Physics to look at the state of Physics Education research in Universities in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
In my University Education Director role I am part of a small teams responsible for quality assurance across the University and I chair the University Academic Integrity Network.
Research interests
My Research is in the area of Particle Physics. I work on the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the CERN LHC where, in the past, I was involved with the design, prototyping and construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter and have been a member and co-chair of the Standard Model Physics publication committee. I am also working on the NA62 rare kaon decay experiment at CERN.
In the past I was a member of the ZEUS collaboration working on the tracking detector and the construction of the calorimeter for the HERA electron-protn collider at DESY, Hamburg. My PhD was on the study of the decays of excited kaon states using the NA32 dectector at CERN.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Cosmic Balloons
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/02/2012 to 01/09/2012
Developing and Enhancing STEM Communicator Models
Principal Investigator
Description
Student Involvement in STEM Activities: A Guide to Good Practice
http://projects.hestem-sw.org.uk/upload/Amended_guide_to_good_practice-1.pdfManaging organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/03/2010 to 01/03/2012
Thesis supervisions
A study of the K → μ νμ γ decay with the NA62 experiment at CERN
Supervisors
Measurement of the branching fractions of semileptonic K+ decays at the NA62 experiment
Supervisors
Clustering and Spike Killing Algorithms for CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Phase II Upgrade and Search for Non-Resonant New Physics in High Mass Dilepton Events in Association with b-tagged Jets
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
17/09/2012Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
Physics Letters B
Measurement of the sum of $W W$ and $WZ$ production with $W+$dijet events in $pp$ collisions at $s=7$ TeV
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Measurements of differential jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $s=7$ TeV with the CMS detector
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Study of exclusive two-photon production of W(+)W(-) in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings
Journal of High Energy Physics
Recent publications
21/01/2025Measurement of inclusive and differential cross sections of single top quark production in association with a W boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13.6 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics
Measurement of the double-differential inclusive jet cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s = 5.02 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics
Latest results from the NA62 experiment at CERN
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Recent results and prospects of the NA62 experiment at CERN
Proceedings of Science
Recent results from NA62 experiment at CERN
Proceedings of Science