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Jon Butterworth
Birth Name:Jonathan Mark Butterworth
Birth Date:[1]
Fields:Particle physics
Alma Mater:University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Thesis Title:Performance of the ZEUS second level tracking trigger and studies of R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315880
Thesis Year:1992
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Jonathan Mark Butterworth is a Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL)[2] [3] working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). His popular science book Smashing Physics,[4] which tells the story of the search for the Higgs boson, was published in 2014 and his newspaper column / blog Life and Physics is published by The Guardian.[5]

Early life and education

Butterworth was raised in Manchester and educated at Wright Robinson High School in Gorton and Shena Simon Sixth Form College. He studied Physics at the University of Oxford, gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in particle physics in 1992.[6] His PhD research used the ZEUS particle detector to investigate R-parity violating supersymmetry at the Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg,[7] and was supervised by Doug Gingrich and Herbert K. Dreiner.[8]

Research and career

Butterworth works on particle physics, particularly the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His research investigates what nature is like at the smallest distances and the highest energies - the fundamental physical laws. This tells us about the physics which was most important in the first few moments after the Big Bang. His research collaborators[9] include Brian Cox[10] [11] and Jeff Forshaw[12] and he has supervised or co-supervised several successful PhD students to completion on the ATLAS experiment,[13] [14] [15] ZEUS[16] [17] [18] [19] and HERA.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

Butterworth frequently discusses physics in public, including talks at the Royal Institution and the Wellcome Trust and appearances on Newsnight, Horizon, Channel 4 News, Al Jazeera, and BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and The Infinite Monkey Cage.[4] He appeared with Gavin Salam in the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) documentary Colliding Particles - Hunting the Higgs, which follows a team of physicists trying to find the Higgs Boson.[25]

His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)[26] and the Royal Society.

Bibliography

Awards and honours

Butterworth was awarded a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2009[27] [2] and shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books in 2015 for his book Smashing Physics.[2] He was awarded the James Chadwick Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2013.[2] His citation at the IOP reads:

Smashing Physics was also shortlisted for Book of the Year by Physics World in 2014.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130424035421/http://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2013/04/16/ich-bin-kentishtowner-jon-butterworth-45-physics-professor . 2013-04-24 . Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Jon Butterworth, 45, physics professor . kentishtowner.co.uk . Anon . 2013 . dead .
  2. Web site: 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170316153810/https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal?upi=JMBUT84 . 2017-03-16 . Jon Butterworth, UCL Institutional Research Information Service (IRIS) . iris.ucl.ac.uk . Jon . Butterworth . dead .
  3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20161231045732/http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~jmb/ . 2016-12-31 . Jonathan Butterworth: High Energy Physics Group . hep.ucl.ac.uk . . London . Jonathan . Butterworth . 2016 . dead .
  4. Book: Butterworth, Jon . 2014 . Smashing Physics: Inside the world's biggest experiment . 915942320. Headline Publishing Group. London . 352 . 978-1472210333 . (available as “Most Wanted Particle” in Canada and the USA)
  5. Web site: Life and Physics. London. Jon. Butterworth. The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20130805025958/http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jon-butterworth. 2013-08-05. 2013.
  6. DPhil. University of Oxford. Performance of the ZEUS second level tracking trigger and studies of R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA. Jonathan Mark. Butterworth. 1992. bodleian.ox.ac.uk. . 53502705.
  7. Butterworth. J.. Dreiner. H.. R-parity violation at HERA. Nuclear Physics B. 397. 1–2. 1993. 3–34. 0550-3213. 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90334-L. hep-ph/9211204. 1993NuPhB.397....3B. 17523206.
  8. Web site: Herbert Dreiner CV . https://web.archive.org/web/20170316160320/http://www.th.physik.uni-bonn.de/dreiner/HOME-PAGE/ps/cv2.pdf . dead . 2017-03-16 . th.physik.uni-bonn.de . Herbert . Dreiner . 2015 .
  9. Web site: Jon Butterworth's articles. arXiv. arxiv.org.
  10. Anon (2015) published by the Royal Institution, London
  11. Web site: Butterworth, Jonathan M.. INSPIRE-HEP. inspirehep.net.
  12. 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.096014 . WW scattering at the CERN LHC . Physical Review D . 65 . 9 . 096014 . 2002 . Butterworth . J. M. . Cox . B. E. . Brian Cox (physicist) . Forshaw . J. R. . Jeff Forshaw. hep-ph/0201098. 2002PhRvD..65i6014B . 118887006 .
  13. PhD. University College London (University of London). Studies of jets, subjets and Higgs searches with the ATLAS detector. Sarah J.. Baker. 2013. discovery.ucl.ac.uk. 926384795.
  14. PhD. University College London (University of London). Searching for the Higgs boson in the bb decay channel with the ATLAS experiment. Maria Inês A. J.. Ochoa de Castro. 2015. . ethos.bl.uk. 927016691.
  15. PhD. University College London (University of London). Exploring electroweak symmetry breaking with jet substructure at the ATLAS experiment. Adam R.. Davison. 2011. ethos.bl.uk. 778953562.
  16. PhD. Matthew. Wing. University College London. The study of heavy quark production in high Et photoproduction at HERA using ZEUS detector. 855166362. london.ac.uk. 1999.
  17. PhD. University College London (University of London). Dijet photoproduction and the structure of the proton with the ZEUS detector. Christopher. Targett-Adams. 2006. ethos.bl.uk. 926256726.
  18. PhD. University College London (University of London). John Harry. Loizides. 2005. Charm at HERA I and HERA II with the ZEUS experiment. london.ac.uk. 500379717.
  19. PhD. University College London (University of London). Dijet production and multiscale QCD at HERA. Matthew Stephen. Lightwood. 2005. london.ac.uk. 500514269.
  20. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170316202722/http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~jmb/Teaching/index.html . 2017-03-16 . Jonathan Butterworth's current and former PhD students . hep.ucl.ac.uk . Jon . Butterworth . 2016 . dead .
  21. PhD. University College London (University of London). Jets and energy flow in photoproduction using the ZEUS detector at HERA. Claire. Gwenlan. 2004. . ethos.bl.uk. 940115440.
  22. PhD. Benjamin John. West. University College London. Charm and the virtual proton at HERA and a global tracking trigger for ZEUS. 926990757. 2001.
  23. PhD. Eileen Anne. Heaphy. University College London. Jet photoproduction and photon structure. 78549753. london.ac.uk. 2002.
  24. PhD. Robert Luke. Saunders. University College London. A measurement of dijet photoproduction at HERA using the ZEUS detector. 53600177. london.ac.uk. 1997.
  25. Web site: Colliding Particles - Hunting the Higgs. collidingparticles.com. Anon. 2009.
  26. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170330123406/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/425A49C6-7E51-490A-A98D-5D072BF84E0E . 2017-03-30 . UK government grants awarded to Jon Butterworth . rcuk.ac.uk . . Swindon . Anon . 2017 . dead .
  27. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170316155353/https://royalsociety.org/people/jonathan-butterworth-6566/ . 2017-03-16 . Professor Jonathan Butterworth: Research Fellow . royalsociety.org . . Anon . 2016 . London . dead . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

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