Annual Report 2012 coepp.org.au
CoEPP – ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale
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Associate Professor Kevin Varvell Director: Sydney node Tel: +61 2 9351 2539 Email: kevin.varvell@coepp.org.au Web: www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kev
Kevin Varvell is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics. His area of expertise is in experimental particle physics and he has collaborated at major international particle physics laboratories including CERN, Fermilab and KEK. He completed his Bachelor of Science (Hons) in 1980 at the University of Western Australia and went on to complete his PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Oxford in 1986.
Varvell has co-authored more than 400 publications, presented at a number of international conferences, and currently serves on the Academy of Science’s National Committee for Physics.
Selected publications G. Aad et al. “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.â€? Physics Letters B, 716:1-29, (2012). ďż˝ M. Staric et al. “Evidence for đ??ˇďż˝ − đ??ˇďż˝ mixing.â€? Physical Review Letters, 98:211803, (2007). S.K. Choi et al. “Observation of a narrow charmoniumlike state in exclusive đ??ľ+→ đ??ž+đ?œ‹+đ?œ‹âˆ’đ??˝/đ?œ“ decays.â€? Physical Review Letters, 91:262001, (2003). K. Abe et al. “Observation of Large CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System.â€? Physical Review Letters, 87:091802, (2001). P. Astier et al. “Final NOMAD results on đ?œ?đ?œ‡ → đ?œˆđ?œ? and đ?œˆđ?‘’ → đ?œˆđ?œ? oscillations including a new search for đ?œˆđ?œ? appearance using hadronic đ?œ? decays.â€? Nuclear Physics B, 611:3-39, (2001).
PERSONNEL
As a node director at CoEPP, A/Prof Varvell is responsible for the vision and focus of the Sydney node’s contribution to the Centre. His research interests lie in neutrino physics, B meson physics and physics at hadron colliders, in particular searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Like many of his CoEPP colleagues, Varvell’s primary focus in 2012 was the highly successful run of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Varvell supervises four postgraduate students working on the ATLAS experiment and one on the Belle experiment.