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
- A search for dark matter produced in association with a dark Higgs boson decaying into a Higgs boson pair in 3b or 4b final states using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025, 09, p. 1-48
- , Reports on Progress in Physics, 88, 9, p. 1-33
- Azimuthal anisotropies of charged particles with high transverse momentum in Pb+Pb collisions at √NN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Physical Review C, 112, 2, p. 1-34
- Measurements of W +W − production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025, 08, p. 1-65