Terry Wyatt

Terry Wyatt
Born Terence Richard Wyatt
(1957-06-29) 29 June 1957[1]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis A study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies (1983)
Doctoral advisor Robin Devenish[2]
Doctoral students
  • James Agnew[3]
  • Pengfei Ding[4]
  • Timothy Head[5]
  • Mika Vesterinen[6]
Known for DØ experiment
Notable awards
Website
www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/wyatt

Terence Richard Wyatt (born 29 June 1957)[1] FRS[8] is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.[9][10][11]

Education

Wyatt was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Tamworth, Imperial College London (Bachelor of Science) and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil degree in 1983 for research supervised by Robin Devenish.[1][2]

Career and Research

Wyatt's conducts research in particle physics primarily on the DØ experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider in Fermilab and on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collider in CERN.[12][13][14] [15][16][17][18] He was one of three short-listed candidates for the position of CERN Director General in 2014, with Fabiola Gianotti and Frank Linde.[19]

Awards and honours

Wyatt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.[8] His certificate of election reads:

“ Terry Wyatt is an experimental particle physicist who is distinguished for a number of original and important contributions to the experimental verification of the Standard Model (SM). By combining unusual expertise in detector performance with exceptional insight into the topological features of different interaction dynamics, Wyatt has developed and implemented powerful new discriminants of signatures for the production of heavy quarks (b and t) and electroweak bosons (W and Z). His application of these techniques in electron-positron interactions (LEP at CERN) and in antiproton-proton interactions (TeVatron at Fermilab) has resulted in measurements of unprecedented precision. His experimental insight and innovation continue to underpin his work, most notably in his recent leadership as co-spokesperson of the D0 experiment at Fermilab. As new high quality data are taken, he continues to pursue measurements of SM observables with new sensitivity, based on the exploitation of the present luminosity regime at the TeVatron.[8] ”

Wyatt was also awarded the Chadwick Medal from the Institute of Physics in 2011.[7]


References

  1. 1 2 3 WYATT, Prof. Terence Richard, (Terry). Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 Wyatt, Terence Richard (1983). A study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863491161.
  3. ↑ Agnew, James Paul (2014). Search for the associated production of Higgs boson with top anti-top pairs (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  4. ↑ Ding, Pengfei (2014). Measurement of the shape of the boson rapidity distribution for ρρ̄→Z/γ*→e⁺e⁻+X events produced at √s = 1.96 TeV (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  5. ↑ Head, Timothy (2013). Top quark spin correlations and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries at D0 (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  6. ↑ Vesterinen, Mika (2011). A measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum distribution, and of the ZZ and WZ production cross sections using 7.3-8.6 fb⁻¹ of pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  7. 1 2 "Prof Terry Wyatt Receives Chadwick Medal". University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Terry Wyatt FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
  9. ↑ Terry Wyatt's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  10. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  11. ↑ Scientific publications of Terry Wyatt on INSPIRE-HEP
  12. ↑ Abazov, V. M.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B. S.; Adams, D. L.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. -L.; Ahmed, S. N.; Ahn, S. H.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.; Alverson, G.; Alves, G. A.; Anastasoaie, M.; Andeen, T.; Anderson, J. T.; Anderson, S.; Andrieu, B.; Angstadt, R.; Anosov, V.; Arnoud, Y.; Arov, M.; Askew, A.; Åsman, B.; Assis Jesus, A. C. S.; Atramentov, O. (2006). "The upgraded DØ detector". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 565 (2): 463. arXiv:physics/0507191. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.248.
  13. ↑ Schael, S.; Barate, R.; Brunelière, R.; De Bonis, I.; Decamp, D.; Goy, C.; Jézéquel, S.; Lees, J. -P.; Martin, F.; Merle, E.; Minard, M. -N.; Pietrzyk, B.; Trocmé, B.; Bravo, S.; Casado, M. P.; Chmeissani, M.; Crespo, J. M.; Fernandez, E.; Fernandez-Bosman, M.; Garrido, L.; Martinez, M.; Pacheco, A.; Ruiz, H.; Colaleo, A.; Creanza, D.; De Filippis, N.; De Palma, M.; Iaselli, G.; Maggi, G.; Maggi, M. (2006). "Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP". The European Physical Journal C 47 (3): 547. doi:10.1140/epjc/s2006-02569-7.
  14. ↑ "Precision electroweak measurements on the Z resonance". Physics Reports 427 (5–6): 257. 2006. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2005.12.006.
  15. ↑ Abazov, V.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B.; Adams, D.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. -L.; Ahmed, S.; Ahn, S.; Alexeev, G.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.; Alverson, G.; Alves, G.; Anderson, S.; Andrieu, B.; Arnoud, Y.; Askew, A.; Åsman, B.; Autermann, C.; Avila, C.; Babukhadia, L.; Bacon, T.; Baden, A.; Baffioni, S.; Baldin, B.; Balm, P.; et al. (2004). "Observation and Properties of the X(3872) Decaying to J/ψπ+π- in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV". Physical Review Letters 93 (16). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.162002.
  16. ↑ Ackerstaff, K.; et al. (1999). "Measurement of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{\rm s}$ and the vector and axial-vector spectral functions in hadronic tau decays". The European Physical Journal C 7 (4): 571. doi:10.1007/s100529901061.
  17. ↑ Abazov, V.; Abbott, B.; Abolins, M.; Acharya, B.; Adams, M.; Adams, T.; Agelou, M.; Agram, J. -L.; Ahn, S.; Ahsan, M.; Alexeev, G.; Alkhazov, G.; Alton, A.; Alverson, G.; Alves, G.; Anastasoaie, M.; Andeen, T.; Anderson, S.; Andrieu, B.; Anzelc, M.; Arnoud, Y.; Arov, M.; Askew, A.; Åsman, B.; Jesus, A.; Atramentov, O.; Autermann, C.; Avila, C.; Ay, C.; et al. (2006). "Measurement of the Bs0 Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays". Physical Review Letters 97 (24). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.241801.
  18. ↑ Wyatt, T. (2007). "High-energy colliders and the rise of the standard model". Nature 448 (7151): 274–80. doi:10.1038/nature06075. PMID 17637656.
  19. ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide (2014). "Higgs hunter will be CERN's first female director". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.16287.


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