The team in the Particle Physics department, is a large one, consisting of around 20-25 people. They are all a very cool bunch of people, and they know where it's at!

As well as the team there are also seven first year postgraduate students working in the Group.

Here is a list of The Group with brief individual descriptions showing "typical" (ahem) physicists...

"Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones

who aren't dead are in some way very ill"

Mr Standish "The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul" by Douglas Adams

Dave Newbold:- Room 4.39

Dave has been here for around 10 years, starting at the University in 1993 with his PHd. He then did a Post Doc. for 3 years and has been a lecturer since 2001 which takes up 50% of his time. He is a Member of the Project CMS concerned with the design of the system electonics. Dave is also a vital part of the computing system being implemented to cope with the petabytes of data being produced by the CMS project. He is essentially in charge of running the UK computer system (there are similar ones in Italy, France and the US). He will then be able to take over the world..... So I guess he's kinda important....

Fergus Wilson:- 4.40

Fergus is involved in the BaBar experiment looking at the differences in the behavious of matter and antimatter to figure out why the antimatter disappeared after the Big Bang. The current thought is that they interact slightly differently and over a long time that antimatter actually changes to matter. In the BaBar project, the particle collision creates an Upsilion which then decays to two B particles - one is matter and one is antimatter. The difference in their decays can then be recorded. (is it just me or does it look like Fergus is playing a piano?)

David Cussans:- 4.49

David has lead a busy life on Particle Physics. He began at Bristol University doing his first Degree between 1985 and 1988. He then moved on to a PHd in high energy Physics "stick in a few more de-coupling capacitors, mate." He then began work in Oxfordshire, and was later sent to work on the H1 project at DACY, Hamburg. He received a CERN fellowship and worked on the neutrino oscillator search experiment. They didn't find any oscillating neutrinos, but he did have a good time learning to ski, and watching the sun rise up over the Alps (whenever he was awake early enough to see it!) In 1999, he returned to Bristol to take up a role as Support Physicst to the Particle Physics group, and currently spends most of his time tinkering with 'High Speed' Digital Electronics. David also spends time teaching and dabbling in Detector Physics. David has one future plan: To always be good enough at his job to find work elsewhere!

Andy Presland:- 4.49

Andy started here as a PHd student for 3 and a half years, and has been an RA since september. Sadly, he is leaving this September for the CERN fellowship.

Bob Tapper:- 4.47

Vince Smith:- 4.48

Until recently Vince has been involved in researching the properties of charmed and strange baryons using hyperon beams at CERN and Fermilab. He is now working on the electromagnetic calorimeter for the CMS project.

Owen Marroney:- 4.46

Kate Mackay:- 4.52

Nicole Chevalier:- 4.56

Jim Brooke:- 4.49

"Non-scary Jim" as I named him (one of the first doors I had to knock (petrified!) on to interview) is working on the CMS trigger, specifically writing firmware and software. The electronics of the chips are based on programmable logic and can be configured to act as any electronic digital circuit. Jim is responsible for writing the design for this. He is also writing software to simulate and control its use. Jim also has an involvement in testing all the hardware that they build. In the long-term his interests lie in Higgs bosons, more specifically, the type that come with supersymmetry (see Glossary!).

Jim Burke:- 4.46

Jim is currently working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre in California where the Babar project is being undertaken.

Matt Probert:- 4.46

Nicolo deGroot:- 4.51

Dr Nicolo deGroot works both here at Bristol Particle Physics Group, and also spends time at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. He is supervising Mr X (one of the first year postgraduate students) as he is working on the Linear Collider Flavour Identification. Dr deGroot is also working on the Babar project.

Nick Barlow:- 4.46

Dave Bailey:- 4.36

Noel Cottingham:- 3.44

Rhys Morris:- 4.33A

Greg Heath (Acting Head of Group):- 4.55

Greg manages the project for the design of the CMS Trigger here at Bristol University. The University joined the project in 1994 and Greg has became heavily involved in the project for the CMS Trigger. He has been working on the chips in the trigger box using programmable logic and the finished board of programmable chips went to the manufacturer last week so in a short time they can begin the fun(?!) of testing them.

Rob Frazier:- 4.46

Rob is a postgraduate student at Bristol University, and is currently working at CERN.

Richard Head:- 4.29A

Tim Barrass:- 4.50

Steve Robin:- 4.50

Tracie Anderson:- 3.51

Tracie is the group secretary responsible for the overall administration and organisation of the group. She also maintains and updates their "official" website (don't worry this one is way better! this one is animated!)#

Alex Muir:- 4.46

Alex is also a postgraduate of Bristol University who is working at CERN at the moment.

Helen Heath:- 4.57

Helen is working on the Compact Muon Solenoid detector for the LHC at CERN. She is involved in the building of the electromagnetic calorimeter out of lead tungstate scintillating crystals.

She is also responsible for setting us the task of making this website! Thanks Helen it's been great fun.

Nick Brook:- 4.54

Nick is currently involved in three investigations. Firstly he is looking at the behaviour of the strong force using the ZEUS detector at HERA. He is also investigating CP violation using the LHCb at CERN. And finally, Nick is looking at the use of computing grids for analysis.

Steve Nash:- 4.29C

Adam Phillips

Adam is now in his 4th year and is studying CP violation (He's not an easy one to get simple english out of! These physicists have to make life so complicated). He is analysing B meson decay looking for asymmetries in the decay of B mesons and anti B mesons, hence looking at CP violation.