Members of the Durham team
The Durham team
The Durham team is part of the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) which is a world leading phenomenology group with approximately 15 permanent staff, 15 postdocs and 20 graduate students. There is an advanced series of graduate lectures covering the full range of modern phenomenology, a regular series of seminars together with a programme to bring senior academics for longer periods. This provides an excellent training environment for the students, particularly in Monte Carlo simulations which encompasses many different areas of research, with the students having both lectures from and easy access to world leading experts in most areas of phenomenological research. In addition the university runs many courses in transferable skills, as part of the PhD programme, which will be available to the students. The IPPP grant from PPARC provides excellent computing and secretarial support and the existing facilities for visitors mean both visiting members of the network and the ESR residencies can be accommodated. Although Durham itself does not have an experimental group we have easy access to the CEDAR project from local members and experimentalists visiting on a regular basis. Durham is also home to PPARC's PhenoGrid project, providing support for the phenomenology community's use of the Grid.
In addition to Durham the team involves Cambridge University where the small theory group, focused on collider phenomenology, is complemented by a larger experimental group working on ATLAS, LHCb, MINOS and R\&D for future linear colliders. The links between the theoretical and experimental parts of the group are particularly strong, especially with ATLAS members through the Cambridge Supersymmetry Working Group and with LHCb members on optimal simulation of B hadron production and decay. Cambridge also provides graduate lectures and access to a wide range of training opportunities.