Professor Paul Newman is the leader of the Birmingham Particle Physics Group. His main areas of expertise are the strong nuclear force, the quark and gluon sub-structure of protons and nuclei and the behaviour of gluons at very high densities. He is currently working on collisions between ultra-high energy protons detected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and is also an advocate of the `LHeC' project to collide electrons with the LHC proton beams in the 2020s.
Paul is a co-author of over 250 research papers in High Energy Physics journals and over 30 contributions to conference proceedings. He teaches a variety of subjects at all undergraduate levels in physics and gives frequent talks to school students and the general public.
For more detailed information, please see Paul’s personal web-page at http://epweb2.ph.bham.ac.uk/user/newman/
Paul Newman came to Birmingham as a PhD student in 1992. His PhD work was on the H1 experiment, studying electron-proton collisions produced by the HERA collider at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg. He has continued to work in the H1 collaboration ever since, including five years spent in residence in Hamburg and a spell as the experiment’s physics coordinator.
Paul has a long history of involvement in proposals to build the next generation electron-proton collider. He was a founding member of the ‘LHeC’ project, which is investigating the possibility of colliding electrons with the CERN Large Hadron Collider proton beams.
His most recent work is concentrated on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, where he is involved with the First Level Calorimeter Trigger and various issues in strong interaction physics analysis.
Paul is the principle investigator on the Birmingham Particle Physics grant from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). In recent years has also received funding in support of his work from the Royal Society and the Durham Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology.
All ATLAS published papers can be found at: twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasPublic
All H1 published papers can be found at: www-h1.desy.de/publications/H1publication.fast_list.html
All LHeC public material can be found at: www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/exp/LHeC/
Conference proceedings, electronic copies of talks and other written documents can be found at www.desy.de/~newmanpr/diffraction/confs.html
Some recent publication highlights:
ATLAS Collaboration, Rapidity Gap Cross Sections measured with the ATLAS Detector in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV, Eur. Phys. J. C72 (2012) 1926
ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross-Section at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector, Nature Commun. 2 (2011) 463
H1 Collaboration, Measurement of the Diffractive Longitudinal Structure Function FLD at HERA, Eur. Phys. J. C72 (2012) 1836
H1 Collaboration (2010), Diffractive Dijet Photoproduction in ep Collisions at HERA, Eur. Phys. J. C70: 15.
H1 & ZEUS Collaborations (2010), Combined Measurement and QCD Analysis of the Inclusive ep Scattering Cross Section at HERA, JHEP 01: 109.
Dainton, J., Klein, M., Newman, P., Perez, E., and Wileke, F. (2006), Deep Inelastic Electron-Nucleon Scattering at the LHC, JINST 1: P10001.
H1 Collaboration (2006), Measurement and QCD Analysis of the Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering Cross Section at HERA, Eur. Phys. J. C48: 715.