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Geoff Hall has dedicated his career to developing electronic instrumentation for particle physics experiments, with over thirty years focused on CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He obtained his PhD and first joined the SLAC experiment, utilizing rapid-cycling bubble chamber cameras triggered by information from external detectors, which were processed using high-speed microprocessors. In 1974, he discovered charmed quarks and focused on directly measuring charmed particle lifetimes, achieving results with the BC72 experiment. Hall designed gas Cherenkov counters for particle identification and developed 3D ray tracing software. His contributions to experimental physics include designing electronic detectors capable of micro-meter resolution, leading to significant enhancements in the sample size of charm decays. Notably, Hall's work included development of silicon microstrip sensors and radiation-hard analogue electronics, culminating in the successful use of the APV25 chip for the LHC. His expertise is further underscored by awards such as the UK Institute of Physics Duddell medal and the James Chadwick medal for contributions to silicon detectors and front-end electronics in particle physics, especially in relation to the Higgs boson discovery. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Imperial College London • London, United Kingdom
Leading research in particle physics and development of electronic instrumentation for various experiments.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.