Philip Clark
Professor P J Clark
- Position
- Professor
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 3421
- Email: P.Clark [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5231
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Philip is a member of the following School research institute, research group and research area:
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Research interests
Prof Clark's research interests are the major unsolved questions in particle physics: the properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson and the nature of the fundamental particle mass generation mechanism.
CP violation (matter-antimatter asymmetry) and understanding the rare decays of particles created in particle accelerator collisions, are additional long-term interests.
He is interested in new computer architectures, particularly the advent of many-core and GPGPU (General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units) devices.
Previously he led the Edinburgh GridPP (Computing Grid for Particle Physics) effort and was Chairman of the ScotGrid Tier-2 compute and data centre.
He created the University’s research programme in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, where he currently holds a CERN associateship.
Introduction to Java Programming (MSc)
Research Methods: Introduction to Maple (3rd & 4th year)
Physics 2A: Forces, Fields & Potentials (2nd year)
- Physics 1B: Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics (1st year)
Philip currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
Philip has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Recent publications
- Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt signatures in the ATLAS detector DOI, The European Physical Journal C, 86, 2, p. 1-32
- Measurement of the top-quark Yukawa coupling from tt production in the lepton+jets final state using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026, 01, p. 1-46
- Search for resonant leptoquark production via lepton-jet signatures in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV and √s = 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025, 12, p. 1-58
- Search for squarks and gluinos in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV and 13.6 TeV in events with τ -leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector DOI, The European Physical Journal C, 85, 12, p. 1-47