Dr Jim Brooke
M.Sci.(Bristol), PhD
Expertise
I develop data-acquisition and data-selection systems for high energy physics experiments. I'm a member of the CMS and DUNE collaborations, and my physics interests include the Higgs boson, neutrinos and dark matter.
Current positions
Lecturer in Experimental Particle Physics
School of Physics
Contact
Media contact
If you are interested in speaking to this expert, contact the University’s Media & PR Team on
Research interests
I am a member of the CMS and DUNE collaborations. My instrumental work is to develop fast online data processing systems, that are required to handle the vast amounts of data produced by both experiments. I use programmable logic devices (FPGAs) to implement algorithms which can identify signatures of interesting physics in the data, and select them for further offline analysis.
At CMS, I have performed searches for dark matter production via decays of the Higgs boson, as well as searches for exotic long-lived particles predicted by extensions to the Standard Model.
On DUNE, I am interested in detecting neutrinos from supernovae, which present a major challenge for the data processing system. I am also exploring possible measurements of neutrinos from other astrophysical sources.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Lecturer in Experimental Particle Physics
School of Physics
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
DUNE PPRP construction (for JeS submission)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/10/2019 to 30/09/2023
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
19/10/2020Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Journal of Instrumentation
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Far detector technical design report
Journal of Instrumentation
FCC-hh: The Hadron Collider
European Physical Journal: Special Topics
Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair
Physics Letters B
Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles with transverse momentum up to 100 GeV/c in PbPb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV
Physics Letters B
Teaching
I currently teach units in Electromagnetism (Foundation year), Computational Physics (3rd year), and experimental laboratories (2nd and 3rd year). I also supervise final year projects in particle physics.