Centre for Particle Physics

This is the home page of the Centre for Particle Physics, part of the Physics Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. It contains information about the centre's activities, research materials, helpful guides on computing, visiting high energy laboratories, getting started with the grid. A practical guide to doing high energy or accelerator physics at Royal Holloway.

Research activities

The research at Royal Holloway focuses on fundamental questions in physics today. We have a substantial group working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as on the BaBar experiment. Research on the accelerator technologies required to build future accelerators is carried out in the John Adams Institute as well as R&D for future detector systems. Research in particle physics theory and phenomenology with focus on the search for new physics at the LHC and the study of dark matter in the universe is carried out in the Phenomenology group. We are also involved in Grid computing.

Vacancy - Senior Lectureship/Readership in Experimental Particle Physics.

Closing date for Applications: 16th November 2009. More details

Vacancies - PhD studentship

Update (September 2009)

The RHUL Centre for Particle Physics is still recruiting applicants for a studentship to carry out research towards the PhD degree in Accelerator Physics, for entry in October 2009. Read more...

Centre for Particle Physics News

• Particles back in the LHC! See CERN press release. (26Oct09)
• A collaborative agreement has been signed between the John Adams Institute and CERN in July 2009. More details and photos.
• Particle Physics Masterclass 2009 at RHUL a great success! (20Apr09)
• New Phenomenology group in the Centre for Particle Physics at RHUL (Jan09)
• LHC latest news: first events registered by ATLAS! (2pm - 10 September, 2008)
• RHUL Physicists ready for LHC startup (Sep08)
• The Centre for Particle Physics at RHUL now part of the NExT institute (Apr08)
• Our 'Newton' Grid cluster is on line and ready to process LHC data with 960kSI2k (400 CPU cores) and 300TB storage (Apr08)

Public information