Philip Clark

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Professor P J Clark

Position: Professor
Category: Academic staff
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 3421

School research affiliations

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

Research institute

Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics

Research group

Particle Physics Experiment

Research area

ATLAS

Biography

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.

Teaching

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)

PhD project opportunities

Philip currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:

High energy frontier physics at ATLAS

Recent news

Philip has featured in the following recent School news stories:

Publications

Recent publications

A search for lepton-flavour violating → 3 decays with the ATLAS detector DOI
The ATLAS Collaboration, S. Alderweireldt, J.F. Allen, G. Christou, P. J. Clark, J.R. Curran, D. Duda, S. M. Farrington, Y. Gao, R.Y. González Andana, C. Jiang, C. Leonidopoulos, V. J. Martin, L. Mijović, M.F. Mohd Soberi, S.R. Paredes Saenz, T. Qiu, J.M. Silva, A.L. Sopio, F. Ustuner, H. Watson, B.M. Wynne et al., Physics Letters B, 880, p. 1-18 (2026)
Evidence of Higgs Boson Inclusive Production at High Transverse Momentum Decaying to a Pair of b-Quarks with the ATLAS Detector DOI
ATLAS Collaboration, S. Alderweireldt, J.F. Allen, G. Christou, P. J. Clark, J.R. Curran, D. Duda, S. M. Farrington, Y. Gao, R.Y. González Andana, C. Jiang, C. Leonidopoulos, V. J. Martin, L. Mijović, M.F. Mohd Soberi, S.R. Paredes Saenz, T. Qiu, J.M. Silva, A.L. Sopio, F. Ustuner, H. Watson, B.M. Wynne et al., Physical Review Letters, 137, 7, p. 1-24 (2026)
Calibration of the jet energy scale and resolution of small-radius jets using semileptonic ttˉevents with the ATLAS detector DOI
ATLAS Collaboration, S. Alderweireldt, J.F. Allen, P. J. Clark, J.R. Curran, D. Duda, S. M. Farrington, Y. Gao, R.Y. González Andana, C. Jiang, C. Leonidopoulos, V. J. Martin, L. Mijović, M.F. Mohd Soberi, S.R. Paredes Saenz, T. Qiu, J.M. Silva, A.L. Sopio, F. Ustuner, A.G. Veltman, H. Watson, B.M. Wynne et al., The European Physical Journal C, 86, 8, p. 1-36 (2026)
Measurements of the Higgs boson production, fiducial and differential cross-sections in the four lepton decay channel using 164 fb−1 of data collected at √s = 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI
The ATLAS Collaboration, S. Alderweireldt, J.F. Allen, G. Christou, P. J. Clark, J.R. Curran, D. Duda, S. M. Farrington, Y. Gao, R.Y. González Andana, C. Jiang, C. Leonidopoulos, V. J. Martin, L. Mijović, M.F. Mohd Soberi, S.R. Paredes Saenz, T. Qiu, J.M. Silva, A.L. Sopio, F. Ustuner, H. Watson, B.M. Wynne et al., Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026, 8, p. 1-70 (2026)
Combined effective field theory interpretation of measurements sensitive to quartic gauge boson couplings in collisions at √ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector DOI
The ATLAS Collaboration, S. Alderweireldt, J.F. Allen, G. Christou, P. J. Clark, J.R. Curran, D. Duda, S. M. Farrington, Y. Gao, R.Y. González Andana, C. Jiang, C. Leonidopoulos, V. J. Martin, L. Mijović, M.F. Mohd Soberi, S.R. Paredes Saenz, T. Qiu, J.M. Cardoso Silva, A.L. Sopio, F. Ustuner, H. Watson, B.M. Wynne et al., Physics Letters B, 879, p. 1-19 (2026)

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This article was last updated on Nov 21, 2022.