Particle and Nuclear Physics

Particle Physics

The Birmingham Particle Physics Group is a large research group within the School of Physics and Astronomy, investigating the ultimate structure of matter and the forces of nature.

Our main activities are based at the CERN laboratory where we are part of the ATLAS, LHCb and NA62 collaborations. These experiments are investigating many aspects of fundamental physics including the Higgs boson, top-quarks, lepton universality and ultra-rare kaon decays. We are also involved in direct searches for dark matter at the Darkside-20k liquid argon experiment and through novel application of spherical proportional counters with NEWS-G. Our BILPA instrumentation laboratory is playing a major role in the ATLAS experiment upgrade programme and R&D into next-generation sensors and instrumentation for hadron therapy. We have extensive capabilities for design, construction and firmware development of state-of-the-art trigger and data acquisition systems.