Terry Wyatt

FRS
Terry Wyatt in his office in 2013
Born
Terence Richard Wyatt

(1957-06-29) 29 June 1957 (age 66)[3]
EducationQueen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Tamworth
Alma mater
Known forDØ experiment
AwardsChadwick Medal (2011)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisA study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies (1983)
Doctoral advisorRobin Devenish[2]
Websitewww.hep.man.ac.uk/u/wyatt/ Edit this at Wikidata

Terence Richard Wyatt (born 29 June 1957)[3] FRS[4] is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.[5][6][7]

Education

Wyatt was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Tamworth, Imperial College London (Bachelor of Science) and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1983 for research supervised by Robin Devenish at the University of Oxford.[3][2]

Career and research

Wyatt's conducts research in particle physics primarily on the DØ experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider in Fermilab and on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collider in CERN.[8][9][10] [11][12][13][14] He was one of three short-listed candidates for the position of CERN Director General in 2014, with Fabiola Gianotti and Frank Linde.[15]

Awards and honours

Wyatt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.[4] His certificate of election reads:

Terry Wyatt is an experimental particle physicist who is distinguished for a number of original and important contributions to the experimental verification of the Standard Model (SM). By combining unusual expertise in detector performance with exceptional insight into the topological features of different interaction dynamics, Wyatt has developed and implemented powerful new discriminants of signatures for the production of heavy quarks (b and t) and electroweak bosons (W and Z). His application of these techniques in electron-positron interactions (LEP at CERN) and in antiproton-proton interactions (TeVatron at Fermilab) has resulted in measurements of unprecedented precision. His experimental insight and innovation continue to underpin his work, most notably in his recent leadership as co-spokesperson of the D0 experiment at Fermilab. As new high quality data are taken, he continues to pursue measurements of SM observables with new sensitivity, based on the exploitation of the present luminosity regime at the TeVatron.[4]

Wyatt was also awarded the James Chadwick Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2011.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Prof Terry Wyatt Receives Chadwick Medal". University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014.
  2. ^ a b Wyatt, Terence Richard (1983). A study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863491161.
  3. ^ a b c Anon (2015). "Wyatt, Prof. Terence Richard, (Terry)". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258414. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b c "Professor Terry Wyatt FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015.
  5. ^ Terry Wyatt publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ "Scientific publications of Terry Wyatt". inspirehep.net. INSPIRE-HEP.
  7. ^ www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/wyatt/ Edit this at Wikidata
  8. ^ Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, D. L.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. -L.; Ahmed, S. N.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.; Alverson, G.; Alves, G. A.; Anastasoaie, M.; Andeen, T.; Anderson, J. T.; Anderson, S.; Andrieu, B.; Angstadt, R.; Anosov, V.; Arnoud, Y.; Arov, M.; Askew, A.; Åsman, B.; Assis Jesus, A. C. S.; et al. (2006). "The upgraded DØ detector". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 565 (2): 463–537. arXiv:physics/0507191. Bibcode:2006NIMPA.565..463A. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.248. S2CID 119105652.
  9. ^ Schael, S.; Barate, R.; Brunelière, R.; De Bonis, I.; Decamp, D.; Goy, C.; Jézéquel, S.; Lees, J. -P.; Martin, F.; Merle, E.; Minard, M. -N.; Pietrzyk, B.; Trocmé, B.; Bravo, S.; Casado, M. P.; Chmeissani, M.; Crespo, J. M.; Fernandez, E.; Fernandez-Bosman, M.; Garrido, L.; Martinez, M.; Pacheco, A.; Ruiz, H.; Colaleo, A.; Creanza, D.; De Filippis, N.; De Palma, M.; Iaselli, G.; Maggi, G.; et al. (2006). "Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP". The European Physical Journal C. 47 (3): 547–587. arXiv:hep-ex/0602042. Bibcode:2006EPJC...47..547S. doi:10.1140/epjc/s2006-02569-7. S2CID 42506346.
  10. ^ ALEPH Collaboration; DELPHI Collaboration; L3 Collaboration; OPAL Collaboration; SID Collaboration; LEP Electroweak Working Group; SID Electroweak Group; Heavy Flavour Group (2006). "Precision electroweak measurements on the Z resonance". Physics Reports. 427 (5–6): 257–454. arXiv:hep-ex/0509008. Bibcode:2006PhR...427..257A. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2005.12.006. S2CID 119482321.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Abazov, V.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B.; Adams, D.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. -L.; Ahmed, S.; Ahn, S.; Alexeev, G.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.; Alverson, G.; Alves, G.; Anderson, S.; Andrieu, B.; Arnoud, Y.; Askew, A.; Åsman, B.; Autermann, C.; Avila, C.; Babukhadia, L.; Bacon, T.; Baden, A.; Baffioni, S.; Baldin, B.; Balm, P.; et al. (2004). "Observation and Properties of the X(3872) Decaying to J/ψπ+π- in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96 TeV". Physical Review Letters. 93 (16): 162002. arXiv:hep-ex/0405004. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..93p2002A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.162002. PMID 15524981. S2CID 41585903.
  12. ^ Ackerstaff, K.; et al. (1999). "Measurement of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{\rm s}$ and the vector and axial-vector spectral functions in hadronic tau decays". The European Physical Journal C. 7 (4): 571–593. arXiv:hep-ex/9808019. doi:10.1007/s100529901061. S2CID 122388931.
  13. ^ Abazov, V.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. -L.; Ahn, S.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.; Alverson, G.; Alves, G.; Anastasoaie, M.; Andeen, T.; Anderson, S.; Andrieu, B.; Anzelc, M.; Arnoud, Y.; Arov, M.; Askew, A.; Åsman, B.; Jesus, A.; Atramentov, O.; Autermann, C.; Avila, C.; Ay, C.; et al. (2006). "Measurement of the Bs0 Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays". Physical Review Letters. 97 (24): 241801. arXiv:hep-ex/0604046. Bibcode:2006PhRvL..97x1801A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.241801. PMID 17280267.
  14. ^ Wyatt, T. (2007). "High-energy colliders and the rise of the standard model". Nature. 448 (7151): 274–80. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..274W. doi:10.1038/nature06075. PMID 17637656. S2CID 2600983.
  15. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (2014). "Higgs hunter will be CERN's first female director". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.16287. S2CID 124442791.
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