Professor Themis Bowcock PhD
Professor Physics
- +44 (0)151 794 3360
- Work email Themis.Bowcock@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal Websitehttp://www.bowcockt.com
Research
Research Interest 1
I lead the LHCb upgrade at Liverpool and the LHCb VELO in the UK. This new detector should enable us to place unprecedented limits on the existence of supersymmetry from the study of B decays. As part of this study, pushing the limits of discovery through precision measurements, I am also part of the UK contribution to the g-2 experiments where we hope to measured both "g" and the muon electric dipole moment.
I strongly believe that the next generation of fundamental physics questions will require new, complementary, techniques to probe very high energy scales so I am supporting new initiatives at Liverpool to develop these technologies.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
Travel project The American Physical Society
THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (USA)
August 2018 - July 2019
LHCb Upgrade II: maximising HL-LHC discovery potential
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2020 - September 2024
Capital Equipment
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2018 - March 2019
Purchase of Wire-bonder for support of STFC programme at LSDC
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2017 - March 2018
Capital equipment round 2016
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
January 2017 - September 2019
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2019 - September 2025
Mu2e: a proposal to extend the sensitivity to charged lepton flavour violation by 4 orders of magnitude
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2017 - September 2021
Consolidated Grant Capital Equipment Bid
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2015 - March 2016
LHCb Upgrade: Beyond the Energy Frontier.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2014 - March 2023
Particle Physics Consolidated award
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2015 - September 2019
Particle Physics Consolidated Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2012 - September 2016
The advanced internet methods and emergent systems research & applications (AiMeS).
NORTH WEST DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (UK)
April 2003 - March 2007
LHCb e-science workpackage 2&3: VELO software [WP2], tools and algorithms [WP3].
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
August 2005 - November 2008
The University of Liverpool, Department of Physics Rolling Grant.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2009 - March 2011
EU-Datagrid WP4 and WP5.
PARTICLE PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2001 - September 2004
Bid to STFC for capital funding to support the grant-funded particle physics programme.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2013 - March 2015
University of Liverpool, Department of Physics Particle Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2010 - September 2012
North West science Grid (NW-GRID).
NORTH WEST DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (UK)
October 2003 - March 2008
Particle Physics Grant: 1 October 1998 to 30 September 2002.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
August 1998 - July 2018
GRIDPP: Tier-2 system management.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
June 2005 - February 2008
Novel low-cost two-dimensional single sided read-out silicon detectors for high energy physics applications.
PARTICLE PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2004 - May 2006
Particle Physics Rolling Grant: 1 October 2002 to 30 September 2006.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2002 - September 2006
Particle physics rolling grant: 1st October 2004 to 30th September 2008.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2004 - September 2008
PPGP (Experiment)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
February 2014 - March 2014
A measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to 0.14 ppm using the FNAL g-2 experiment
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2014 - March 2017
PPGP Experiment
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
February 2012 - March 2012
WebCorp (The Web as Corpus).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2000 - August 2003
SRF funding for LHCb Upgrade 2014
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
June 2014 - December 2014
Simple Array Processor for Physics Simulation of Rare Processes.
HIGHER EDUCATION FUND COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND (UK)
January 1999 - December 2001
Design and prototyping of LHCb high level trigger.
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
December 2003 - November 2005
LHCb Capital Equipment
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2014 - March 2015
The Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre.
PARTICLE PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2000 - December 2003
Particle Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2006 - September 2011
Development of HV-CMOS sensor technology for future tracking applications
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
September 2014 - May 2017
Common development of pixel tiles for the LHC upgrades
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
March 2012 - February 2015
Research Collaborations
Particle Physics group
Internal
Head of group
Casse
Internal
LHCb
Hutchcroft
Internal
LHCb
Shears
Internal
LHCb
Patel
Internal
LHCb
Lindsey
Internal
Carroll
Internal
LHCb
Affolder
Internal
LHCb
Smith
Internal
LHCb
Tsurin
Internal
LHCb
Rinnert
Internal
LHCb
Huse
Internal
LHCb
Allport
Internal
Pixel Detector R&D
Parkes, O'Shea
External: The University of Glasgow
Detector R&D for Pixel Developments for the LHC
RD50
External: CERN
R&D collaboration ob development of radiation hard sensors
McNulty
External: University College Dublin, Ireland
Collabaration with Tyndell Institute Cork on detector development (TSV)
LHCb
External: CERN
Project Leader for the crucial VELO part of this $500m experiment.
Collaboration of over 700 scientists world wide