Wendy Taylor (physicist) explained

Wendy Taylor
Birth Date:	20 February
Workplaces:	York University Stony Brook University
Alma Mater:	University of British Columbia University of Toronto
Thesis Year:	1999
Doctoral Advisor:	Pekka Sinervo
Known For:	CP violation Magnetic monopole

Wendy Taylor is an Experimental Particle Physicist at York University and a former Canada Research Chair. She is the lead for York University's ATLAS experiment group at CERN.

Education

Taylor graduated from the University of British Columbia with Bachelors of Science in Physics in 1991.^[1] As an undergraduate, she worked at TRIUMF, working on rare kaon decay. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she earned a PhD under the supervision of Pekka Sinervo in 1999.^{[2] [3]} She worked on fragmentation properties of the bottom quark.^[4] She worked at Stony Brook University as a postdoctoral fellow.^{[5] [6]} She worked on Fermilab's D0 experiment, building electronics to detect bottom quark particles in real time.^[7]

Research

Taylor's research focuses on the magnetic monopole. To do this, she is using the ATLAS detector.^{[8] [9]} Her lab concentrated on the development of firmware for the transition radiation tracker within the ATLAS experiment.^[10] She is motivated by predictions from Grand Unified Theory, the observation of quantised charge and potential to reinforce the symmetry in Maxwell's equations.^[11] Taylor spent five years working at the Tevatron particle accelerator. She was concerned when it lost government funding in 2011.^[12] Whilst working at the Fermilab Tevatron particle accelerator, Taylor identified CP violation in the decay of bottom quarks, which could contribute to the dominance of matter in the universe.^[13] The rate at which she detected CP violation was two-orders of magnitude larger than that predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.^{[14] [15]}

She joined York University in 2004, where she was one of two women in the department.^[16] She held a Canada Research Chair between 2004 and 2014.

Taylor is a member of the American Physical Society and the Particle Physics Division of the Canadian Association of Physicists.^{[17] [18]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: ExpertFile . Wendy Taylor Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy - Expert with York University ExpertFile . 2018-02-19 . expertfile.com . en.
2. Web site: Former Graduate Students — Department of Physics . 2018-02-19 . www.physics.utoronto.ca . en.
3. Web site: Pekka K. Sinervo, FRSC — Pekka Sinervo . 2018-02-19 . sites.physics.utoronto.ca . en.
4. Taylor . Wendy Jane . 1999 . A measurement of b-quark fragmentation fractions in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV . Ph.D. Thesis . 4679 . 1999PhDT........78T.
5. Web site: Taylor . Wendy . 2003-03-13 . The Physics of b Quarks . 2018-02-19 . Stony Brook University.
6. Web site: ORCID . Wendy Taylor (0000-0002-6596-9125) - ORCID Connecting Research and Researchers . 2018-02-19 . orcid.org . en.
7. Book: Martin., Erdmann . Hadron Collider Physics 2002 : Proceedings of the 14th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 29-October 4,2002 . 2003 . Springer Berlin Heidelberg . Müller, Thomas. . 3642555241 . Berlin, Heidelberg . 232 . 840292012.
8. News: Many theories predict existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them . 2018-02-19.
9. Web site: Search for magnetic monopoles in $sqrt=7$~TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector . 2018-02-19 . atlas.web.cern.ch . en-US.
10. Web site: Faculty Members - Wendy Taylor . 2018-02-19 . York University.
11. Web site: Taylor . Wendy . The Search for Magnetic Monopoles at the ATLAS Detector . 2018-02-19.
12. News: 2011-06-18 . Fermilab's Tevatron collider to shut down this year . en-US . Excalibur Publications . 2018-02-19.
13. News: 2010-06-02 . A New Clue In The Antimatter Mystery . en-CA . The Square . 2018-02-19.
14. Web site: McGill Physics: CHEP seminars . 2018-02-19 . www.physics.mcgill.ca . en.
15. Web site: Heavy Flavour Physics News from the Tevatron Wendy Taylor for the CDF and D Ø Collaborations APS/AAPT 2010, Washington, DC, February 13-16, ppt download . 2018-02-19 . slideplayer.com.
16. Book: Horn, Michiel . York University : the way must be tried . 2010 . Published for York University by McGill-Queen's University Press . Pietropaolo, Vincenzo., York University (Toronto, Ont.), Canadian Electronic Library . 978-0773577244 . Montreal [Que.] . 759157045.
17. Web site: RASC Mississauga: Antimatter: From the Subatomic to the Cosmological Scales RASC Toronto . 2018-02-19 . rascto.ca . en.
18. News: Particle Physics Division (PPD) - Canadian Association of Physicists . en-US . Canadian Association of Physicists . 2018-02-19.