Dr. Robert Kowalewski

Biography

Robert V. Kowalewski is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria. He conducts research in experimental particle physics, with a focus on weak interactions and new particle searches. Currently, he is involved in high-energy frontier research at the ATLAS detector at CERN, where his group contributes to data analysis, software development, and operations for the High Level Trigger (HLT) system. This system is crucial for making final decisions on which events collected during experiments are stored for further analysis. As the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) increases, his group is also responsible for improving the sensitivity of searches for new, non-interacting particles, such as dark matter candidates. In addition, Dr. Kowalewski is involved in studies related to CP violation, focusing on the decay processes of B mesons in the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan. His research encompasses key parameters that are essential for testing the Standard Model and understanding the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe.

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