Professor Mark Thomson
Professor of Experimental Particle Physics
Fellow of Emmanuel College and Director of Studies in the Physical Natural Sciences
Group: High Energy Physics
Address:
Room 951 Rutherford Building,
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0HE.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 765122
Fax: +44 (0)1223 353920
Email: thomson "at" hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Group Secretary / Administrator / Personal Assistant:
Felicity Footer
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337227
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Biography:
Mark Thomson has over 350 publications on various aspects of particle physics. After receiving his doctorate in particle astrophysics from Oxford, he spent the following eight years at CERN working on the OPAL experiment where he played a central role in the precise determination of the properties of the W and Z bosons. He is currenetly the UK PI of the MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. In addition he is leading studies for a detector at a future linear collider.
Research Interests:
Mark Thomson is currently working on the search for electron neutrino appearance with the MINOS experiment using a novel pattern recognition technique. He is also a leading member of the global community working on design studies for the International Linear Collider. Specifically, Mark Thomson is leading the field in the development of the particle flow approach to calorimetry and has recently demonstrated its viability for a ILC detector. This work is central to the design and optimisation of a future ILC detector.
Research Group - High Energy Physics
Selected Publications:
"Measurement of W pair production cross section and W decay branchingfractions", OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al., Eur. Phys. J. C52(2007).
"Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors andthe NuMI beam", The MINOS Collaboration, D. Michael et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97: 191801 (2006).
"First observations of separated numu and numubar events in the MINOSdetector", The MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson et al. Phys. Rev. D , 072002 (2006).
"Measurement of the mass and width of the W boson", The OPAL Collaboration,G. Abbiendi et al. Eur. Phys. J. , C45 307-335 (2006).
"Precise Determination of the Z Resonance Parameters at LEP : Zedometry",The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al., Eur. Phys. J. C19 (2001)587-651.
A more comprehensive list of publications can be found here.