Particles Zone Report – March 2020

Read the report: Particles Zone Report – March 2020 [PDF]

The Particles Zone was a themed zone supported by STFC. It featured six scientists:

  • Ondrej Kovanda is an STFC funded PhD student studying ways the standard model of particle physics fails.
  • Jordan McElwee is an STFC funded PhD student studying how neutrinos interact with the atomic nucleus.
  • Eleanor Jones is PhD student at CERN, using the world’s most powerful particle accelerator to look back in time and predict the future.
  • Edward Banks, winner of the Particles Zone, is a Lab Technician at STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory, running experiments that need very quiet conditions.
  • Christine Beavers is the Principal Beamline Scientist at the Diamond Light Source, using high energy x-rays to see the atomic structure of minerals, materials and molecules.
  • Alice Morris is a PhD student at UCL, looking at data from the ATLAS detector at CERN.
Posted on April 16, 2020 by modem in 2020, STFC, Zone Reports. Comments Off on Particles Zone Report – March 2020

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