Personal Info

E-mail: n.harnew1(at)physics.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 273316
Web Link: http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~lhcb/people/harnew.shtml

Academic Background:
BSc Physics (Sheffield University, 1971-74); PhD (University of London, Westfield College, 1974-78; Research Associate (University of Michigan, USA, 1978-83); CERN Fellow (Geneva, Switzerland, 1983-86); Research Officer (University of Oxford, 1986-89); Lecturer (University of Oxford, 1989-present); Fellow in Physics, St Anne’s College (1989-present); Reader (University of Oxford, 1998-present); Professor (University of Oxford, 2002-present).

Teaching Interests:
Undergraduate:
Within College I generally teach the first-year physics course: electromagnetism, mechanics, relativity, optics and circuit theory. I also teach third-year relativity, particle physics and nuclear physics. I lecture first-year maths (vectors and matrices) in the department.

Graduate:
No graduate courses taught at present.

Research Interests:
I am a particle physicist and currently work on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. My interests are the origin of CP-violation, a mechanism responsible for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. My major hardware responsibilities involve work on the Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors (for which I am currently Project Leader). I am also involved in the analysis of the B-meson decay into DK modes, by measuring tiny asymmetries in the way B and anti-B mesons decay into the DK final states.

Publications:

A list of references can be found at the following website:

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=find+a+harnew