Tejinder Virdee

Tejinder Singh "Jim" Virdee ( born October 13, 1952 in Nyeri, Kenya ) is a British experimental particle physicists. He is a professor at Imperial College London.

Tejinder Virdee was born in the then British colony of Kenya and moved to Birmingham with his parents in 1967. He studied at Imperial College London, where he received his doctorate in 1979 with Peter Dornan (Sigma Hyperon Production in a Triggered Bubble Chamber ), where his dissertation was written in an experiment at SLAC. After that, he was involved in the NA14 experiment at CERN, where the interaction of photons was studied at the quarks in hadrons prove with the aim of the fractional electric charges of the quarks. Virdee built to a large Cerenkov detector. After that, he was involved in the construction of the large calorimeter for the UA1 experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN.

He was deputy speaker from 1993 (next to Michel Della Negra ) and 2007-2009 Speaker of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the ATLAS detector one of the two large particle detectors of the LHC, with the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson compatible particle succeeded. Virdee was early in the 1990s in the development of the CMS, which was specially designed for the detection of the Higgs boson involved (via its decay into two photons ), for example with simulation studies and the development of the tungsten -lead scintillators in the electromagnetic calorimeter. Even after that he was instrumental in the technical decisions for the development of the CMS experiment.

In 2012 he was one of the winners of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the likely discovery of the Higgs boson. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2012 ) and the Institute of Physics ( IOP). In 2009 he was awarded the Chadwick price of IOP and 2007, the price of High Energy Physics of the IOP. In 2013 he received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Peter Jenni, Michel Della Negra and the CMS and Atlas Collaboration).

He was on the scientific advisory committee of the Fermilab and the research center in Dubna.

Writings

  • N. Ellis, TS Virdee Experimental Challenges in High - Luminosity Collider Physics, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Volume 44, 1994, pp. 609-653
  • Fabiola Gianotti, inter alia, with Physics potential and experimental challenges of the LHC luminosity upgrade, The European Physical Journal C, Volume 39, 2005, pp. 293-333
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