# Philip Clark

### Professor P J Clark

Position
Professor
Category
Academic staff
Location
James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 5417

Philip is a member of the following School research institute, research group and research area:

### 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:

### Recent publications

1. , , , , , , , , , , , et al., Nature Physics
2. , , , , , , , , , , , et al., European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, C77, 8, p. 531
3. , , , , , , , , , , , et al., Journal of High Energy Physics, 1708, p. 026
4. , , , , , , , , , , , et al., Physical Review Letters, 119, 5, p. 051802
5. , , , , , , , , , , , et al., Journal of High Energy Physics, 1708, p. 006