Bill Murray

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Bill Murray

• Joined Lab in 1990
• RA offer on Zeus but worked on DELPHI instead.
• SSO position 1993
• Some ATLAS involvement from then
• Muon collider interest around 1998 MuScat
  experiment followed.
• Band 3 around 2002
• Some Mice involvement
• DELPHI nearly all finished

Testing Tracker cables inside ATLAS
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DELPHI (a LEP experiment)

• After a long a distinguished past....
• DELPHI is now in ruins
• (This is the home of the oracle, the PYTHIA)

• I worked on the silicon vertex detector
• B/B0 lifetimes
• B tagging
• Higgs search

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MuScat

• Just a little experiment to check multiple
  scattering
• 20 authors
• It took longer than anticipated
• Proposed in 1999, accepted for publication 2006.

As a small experiment, I worked on everything
squashing lithium targets, building detectors,
data-acquisition, beamline studies, but mostly on
Geant 4 simulations
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Mice

• Test of muon beam preparation ('cooling')
• Used in Neutrino factory designs based
• on muon decay to give neutrinos
• Being built at RAL

Sole PPD member Small fraction of my time Doing
instrumentation and DAQ for beam-test at RAL in
November
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ATLAS (A big experiment)

• Worked on SCT for ten years
• APV5 testbeam analysis
• Module thermal optimisation
• ABCD3T Q/A software responsible
• Database of all ASICs used
• Database updates for modules
• With Jeff on hybrid QA
• Now concentrating on analysis software
• B-tagging
• Higgs search top top Higgs channel

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Other things at work
Other things at work

• Lecturing at DURHAM on experimental methods (poor
  theorists there have no experimentalists to talk
  to)
• Coseners Forum meeting Annual get-together for
  Particle Physics UK to discuss a topic
• Thanks Jane Bruffell!
• Schools lectures etc as 'SEA'
• Ages 9-18 at various schools
• PhyStat conference organizer Physics and
  Statistics

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Other things at home
Hazel
Girls
Boys
Mountains