Tejinder Virdee
Sir Tejinder Singh "Jim" Virdee (born October 13, 1952 in Nyeri , Kenya ) is a British experimental particle physicist. He is a professor at Imperial College London .
Tejinder Virdee was born in the then British colony of Kenya and moved with his parents to Birmingham in 1967. He studied at Imperial College London , where he received his doctorate in 1979 under Peter Dornan ( Sigma Hyperon Production in a Triggered Bubble Chamber ), with his dissertation being carried out in an experiment at SLAC . Then he was involved in the NA14 experiment at CERN , in which the interaction of photons on the quarks in hadrons was studied with the aim of detecting the fractional electrical charges of the quarks. Virdee built a large Tschrenkow detector for this purpose . Afterwards he was involved in the construction of the large calorimeter for the UA1 experiment of the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN.
From 1993 he was deputy spokesman (alongside Michel Della Negra ) and from 2007 to 2009 spokesman for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, with the ATLAS detector one of the two large particle detectors at the LHC, with which the 2012 discovery of one with the Higgs -Boson compatible particle succeeded. Virdee was early in the 1990s in the development of the CMS, which was specially designed for the detection of the Higgs boson (via its decay into two photons), for example with simulation studies and the development of tungsten-lead scintillators in the electromagnetic calorimeter involved . Even after that, he was significantly involved in setting the technical course for the development of the CMS experiment.
In 2012 he was one of the winners of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the likely discovery of the Higgs boson. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2012) and the Institute of Physics (IOP). In 2009 he received the Chadwick Prize of the IOP and in 2007 the Prize for High Energy Physics of the IOP. In 2013 he received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Peter Jenni , Michel Della Negra and the CMS and Atlas collaboration). In 2014 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II . For 2015 he was awarded the Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics (IOP), for 2017 the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society (with Jenni and Della Negra), for 2020 the Blaise Pascal Medal .
He was on the scientific advisory committee of the Fermilab and the research center in Dubna .
Fonts
- N. Ellis, TS Virdee Experimental Challenges in High-Luminosity Collider Physics , Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Volume 44, 1994, pp. 609-653
- with Fabiola Gianotti u. a. Physics potential and experimental challenges of the LHC luminosity upgrade , The European Physical Journal C, Volume 39, 2005, pp. 293-333
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Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Astbury et al. a. Measurement of deep inelastic Compton scattering of high energy photons , Physics Letters B 152, 1985, pp. 419-427
- ↑ CMS Collaboration Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC , Physics Letters B 710, 26 (2012)
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| SURNAME | Virdee, Tejinder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Virdee, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nyeri |