Professor Jonas Rademacker

Speaker

My research focuses on the subtle differences between matter and the mirror-image of anti-matter, called charge partity (CP) violation. I look for these both in the transitions of quarks from one flavour to another, and in neutrino oscillations. The most exciting aspects of my research is that it is highly sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. 

I currently work on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN; there we collide protons 40M per second to produce huge numbers of heavy quarks; at  BES III in Beijing I study D meson pairs that are in a special quantum-correlated uniquely accessible at this experiment; combining data from both experiments gives unprecedented precision in measurements of parameters describing matter-antimatter asymmetry and thus unprecedented sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. 

I also work on DUNE; the DUNE detector will be placed deep underground in a mine and make precision measurements of neutrinos that travelled 1300km through the ground from Fermilab. The discovery of CP violation in neutrinos could provide an explanation for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. 

In the past, I worked at the SoLid neutrino experiment (Belgium) and the CDF experiment at Fermilab. 

Timeline: 

Birthday: 16/05/1971 

UG: Physics with Philosophy in Hamburg (1993-4), continued (as straight Physics) in Southampton (1994-7), got MPhys from Southampton 

PhD: 1997-2001 (Oxford) 

Postdocs in Oxford (2001-6) 

Lecturer (now Prof) in Bristol 2006-now.