Sinead Farrington

Biography

Publication highlights:

(for a full list search for "find a s farrington" on inspirehep.net - includes all CDF and ATLAS papers), these are the highlights I collaborated on:

Test of CP Invariance in vector-boson fusion production of the Higgs boson using the Optimal Observable method in the ditau decay channel with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C76 (2016) 658

Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 04 (2015) 117

Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in pp collisions at sqrt s=8 TeV, Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) no.7, 303

Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010, Eur.Phys.J. C72 (2012) 1849

Performance of the ATLAS Muon Trigger in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV, Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) 120

Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to mu+mu- with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B 738 (2014) 68-86

Measurement of the Z -> tau tau cross section with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D, 84 (2011) 112006

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 1-29

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H to tau+tau- decay mode in sqrt(s)-7 TeV pp collisions with ATLAS, JHEP 1209 (2012) 070

Search for Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons decaying to tau+tau- pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector, Phys. Lett. B705 (2011) 174

Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into a tau pair in pp collisions at $√s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 072007

Search for the Rare Decays B+ to mu+mu- K+, B0 to mu+ mu- K*0 and Bs to mu+ mu- phi at CDF, Phys. Rev. D79 (2009) 011104

Observation of B0(s) – anti B(0)s oscillations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 242003

Measurement of the B0(s) – anti B(0)s Oscillation Frequency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 062003

Higgs Boson coupling sensitivity at the LHC using H to tau tau decays, C. Boddy, S. Farrington, C. Hays, PhysicsReview D. 86(2012) 073009

Probing Collective Effects in Hadronisation with the Extremes of the Underlying Event, T. Martin, P. Skands, S. Farrington Eur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) no.5, 299

Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross-sections 1. Inclusive Observables, S. Dittmaier et al., CERN-2011-002 (2011)

Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross-sections 2. Inclusive Observables, S. Dittmaier et al., CERN-2012-002 (2011)

Roles (past and present):

Professor of Experimental Particle Physics, Edinburgh 2018 onwards

Promoted to Full Professor at Warwick early 2018

Associate Professor (Reader), Warwick 2016-2018

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Warwick 2013-2016

Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Warwick 2011-2013

Advanced STFC (PPARC) fellow, Oxford 2007-2011

Member of Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP), STFC

UK ATLAS Physics Coordinator

ERC Consolidator Grantholder

Visiting Professor, Oxford

ATLAS Physics Validation Coordinator

Convenor of ATLAS Higgs to Leptons group

Journal Reviewer: Nature Physics, PRL, PRD

Outreach: schools talks at Warwick; at Wesminster School; Big Bang Fair at NEC ; Royal Society Summer Exhibition STEM for girls event; talk at “XMaS science gala” ; “Training Partnership” school event at Warwick; tours of CDF experiment. UK teachers Particle Physics training program at CERN on LHC physics.

CERN Associateship

Chair of STFC CERN fellowships committee.

Convenor: VBF group in the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group

UK Higgs convenor

IOP HEPP Secretary/Treasurer

IPPP Associateship for project on Vector Boson Fusion

Management committee of “Vector Boson Scattering” EU network funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

Kurti Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford

CDF Offline Operations Manager

CDF B Mixing and Lifetimes Convenor

PhD External Examiner: University of Birmingham, University of Bristol (also MSc), Ecole Polytechnique Paris, University of Glasgow, Imperial College, University of Liverpool, University of Oxford, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, University of Sussex, University College London

Invited talk highlights:

Latest LHC Results, Higgs Cosmology Royal Society Meeting Chicheley 2017 Higgs Boson Status, UK Institute of Physics annual High Energy Physics (IOP HEPP) meeting Sheffield 2017 Higgs Boson Results, High Energy Physics Switzerland meeting of PIs Aegerisee 2016 How to Start a Research Group, STFC meeting for new Ernest Rutherford Fellows Swindon 2017 Multivariate analysis: Higgs to tau tau Workshop on Multivariate Methods, Oxford 2016 LHC Prospects, Young Experimentalist & Theorist Institute (YETI), Durham 2016

Standard Model Higgs Results, Lepton Photon Ljubljana 2015 Higgs to fermions, Irish Quantum Field Theory Dublin 2014 Prospects:Higgs Fermion Decays, Royal Society meeting Chicheley 2014 Aspen Higgs Forum, Aspen Institute Aspen 2013 Higgs to tau tau at the LHC, Higgs Couplings Tokyo 2012 B and D Decays at CDF, International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) Melbourne 2012 Higgs Couplings at the LHC (poster), International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) Melbourne 2012 Hard Science at CERN, Science Communication Workshop Warwick 2011 Rare Decays at CDF, Heavy Quarks and Leptons Frascati 2010 The ATLAS Trigger, European Physical Society High Energy Physics Conference (EPS) Krakow 2009 Higgs Hunting at ATLAS, Oxford University Physics Society Oxford 2009 Bs mixing at CDF, International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) Philadelphia 2008 Tevatron to LHC, Young Experimentalist & Theorist Institute (YETI) Durham 2008 Recent CDF Results in b Physics, International Conference Flavour Physics Beijing 2007 B Physics, MCnet (EU network) School Durham 2007 CDF B Physics, LHCb Collaboration Upgrade meeting Edinburgh 2007 Rare Decays at CDF, International Conference on High Energy Physics Moscow (ICHEP) 2006 Bs Mixing at CDF, UK Institute of Physics annual High Energy Physics meeting (IOP HEPP) Warwick 2006 Rare Decays at the Tevatron, Beauty 2005 Assisi 2005 Bs Mixing at CDF, UK Institute Of Physics High Energy Particle Physics Group annual conference (IOP HEPP) Dublin 2005 Measurement of the Bs Lifetime, UK Institute Of Physics High Energy Particle Physics Group annual conference (IOP HEPP) Durham 2003 Measurement of B hadron Lifetimes (poster), International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions Fermilab, Chicago, 2003 B Lifetimes & Flavour Tagging, European Physical Society High Energy Physics Conference (EPS) Aachen 2003

Seminars:

Higgs Boson,Higgs to tau tau, Rare B decays, Bs Mixing: Oxford, MIT, Penn, Princeton,Lausanne, Berkeley, Bristol, RAL, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lancaster,Liverpool, Warwick, Sussex, RHUL

Positions available

PhD and Postdoctoral positions available to join my ERC project OPEN3GEN on expanding the search for Long Lived Particles at ATLAS.

Current research interests

I work on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.  My interests are in Higgs physics; Exotic physics; the ITk construction and the ATLAS trigger. My main focus for the next five years is on my ERC grant to extend ATLAS searches for Long Lived Particles.  I have several PhD and postdoc positions available to join this team, please contact me for further information.

Sinead currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:

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