Imperial College London

DrMichaelMcCann

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Senior Lecturer in Flavour Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7688m.mccann Website

 
 
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Location

 

529ABlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Summary

My research is primarily focused around the LHCb experiment taking data on the LHC at CERN. This is an experiment designed to study the decays of the b quark, with the aim of discovering contributions to these decays from physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment involves 850 scientists from 80 institutions around the world.


I am particularly interested in rare decays of the b quark. Those where they decay to either an s quark or a d quark and two leptons. Due to the suppression of these decays in the Standard Model relatively large contributions from new particles could be observed, making them very sensitive to potential new physics. I am also very interested in exploiting LHCb's ability to directly search for more exotic particles.


I am heavily involved in the operation, design, and production of the experiment's ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors, a system designed to differentiate between different charged hadrons, particularly kaons and pions.

Publications

Journals

Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, et al., 2024, Measurement of Ξc+ production in pPb collisions at sNN =8.16 TeV at LHCb, Physical Review C, Vol:109, ISSN:2469-9985

Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, et al., 2024, Amplitude Analysis of the B^{0}→K^{*0}μ^{+}μ^{-} Decay., Phys Rev Lett, Vol:132

Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, et al., 2024, Fraction of χ_{c} Decays in Prompt J/ψ Production Measured in pPb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=8.16  TeV., Phys Rev Lett, Vol:132

Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Beteta CA, et al., 2024, Observation of $${{\varXi } ^0_{b}} \rightarrow {{\varXi } ^+_{c}} {{D} ^-_{s}} $$ and $${{\varXi } ^-_{b}} \rightarrow {{\varXi } ^0_{c}} {{D} ^-_{s}} $$ decays, The European Physical Journal C, Vol:84

Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, et al., 2024, Curvature-bias corrections using a pseudomass method, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol:19

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