Roger Barlow

Professor of Particle Physics

Manchester Telephone (+44)-161-275-4178 Fax (+44)-161-275-0480
CERN Telephone (+22)-767 5378
SLAC Telephone (+1) 650 926 3054
Cockcroft Telephone (+44) 1925 864314
Email Roger.Barlow at manchester.ac.uk or Roger.Barlow at cern.ch or barlow at slac.stanford.edu

Location
Room 6.7, Schuster Laboratory, Manchester
S.10 at the Cockcroft Institute
B13 2-033 at CERN
B48 Room 255 at SLAC
Postal Address
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, M13 9PL

Activities

Most used links google arXiv Manchester Mailing Lists Manchester Finance Manchester Mail and Calendar Manchester Agenda server Manchester portal
Things I run The Manchester Particle Physics group The CONFORM FFAG project The Manchester BaBar group The Manchester Accelerator group and blog Beyond the Awayday discussions Thorea Research association
Teaching Lecture notes for PHYS10302 Lecture notes for PHYS40521 Tutorial Sheets Questions Tutorial Sheets Answers Tutorial Attendance School Teaching Pages Campus Solutions Blackboard system
Other University stuff John Rylands Electronic Journals MIS Staff Directory Student Directory
LHCb Meetings EVO Flat Software tutorials Shifts
Referee stuff JHEP (Roger at hep) PRL 470577 when Nature European Journal of physics
Meetings Meetings Arranger Nigel's Collimators page EMC calorimeter Software meetings MDI meetings The BIRS conference on statistics
Other Things I'm in The Academia.edu tree Moss Owners club The Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science The Royal Statistical Society CALICE Tatton Liberal Democrats The IoP HEPP group The EPS and the EPS committee The BIRS challenge
Computing stuff TIER2
hardware
tickets
Northgrid Dashboard
ATLAS tests
Sophos Phystat repository
Accelerator Activities BASROC EuCARD EuroTev EuDet CARE CARE project My TURTLE how-to notes List of Accelerator Meetings The Super B factory
BaBar Home Page Tau to 3 prong pizero hypernews Tau to 3 prong pizero BAIS entry Statistics hypernews Tau QED hypernews BaBar UK hypernews
Outreach PP UK The British Science Association
Travel Trains American Airlines Air France lufthansa British Airways Hertz
CERN lectures Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5
Most Recent papers Search for Second-Class Currents in τ ¯ → ω π ¯ ν(τ), (Physical Review Letters Vol.103, No.4, 24 July 2009) Towards a dedicated high-intensity muon facility Physica B: Condensed Matter Volume 404, Issues 5-7, 15 April 2009, Pages 1024-1027 Simulation of High Order Short Range Wake Fields A note on Delta ln L = - 1/2 errors Asymmetric Errors Introduction to Statistical issues in Particle Physics Effectsof Position, Angle and Energy Offsets on Spoilers in the TESLA BDS
SLUO lectures Systematic Errors (Lecture 5) Resampling and the Bootstrap (Lecture 6) Fitting: some selected topics (Lecture 7) Signals, Backgrounds and Probabilities (Lecture 8) Unfolding (Lecture 9)
Information Manchester Phone and email directory

Faculty of Science The Guardian The Macclesfield Express HBOOK manual PAW manual
Research grants JeS form eGAP form

jobs

IoP jobs list Manchester jobs list BaBar jobs list CERN jobs list Cockcroft jobs list Spires jobs list APS accelerator jobs list

Talks and posters

Date Talk Occasion Where given

2009

October 20th ADSR activity in the UK High Power Proton Workshop Fermilab
October 15th Results from small numbers Bohr Lunch Manchester
October 11th Intervals and Limits Workshop on Advanced Statistical Methods in HEP Karlsruhe
September 24th ADSR activity in the UK FFAG09 Fermilab
September 14th Antimatter and press report Scibar Bollington
August 18th CALICE design and testbeam results (Not my own work, but presented for the CALICE collaboration) Lepton Photon Conference Hamburg
June 17th Simulating LHC collimation EuCARD kickoff CERN
June 10th nsFFAGs and ADSRs Seminar Lancaster
May 25th Antimatter Scibar Didsbury
May 25th LHC Backgrounds LHCb week CERN
May 11th Welcome and introduction CONFORM openday Daresbury
April 17th Future plans ThorEA meeting Huddersfield
April 17th What is an nsFFAG? ThorEA meeting Huddersfield
April 1st Tau physics with Babar UK BaBarFest QMUL
February 24th EMMA ALICE stakeholder meeting Cockcroft
February 11th EMMA, BASROC, Hadron therapy and ADSRS STFC Review Cockcroft
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2008

October 15th Resistive Collimator Wakefields CLIC08 CERN
September 16th ADSR Systems DIUS visit Manchester
September 9th Proliferation and ADSR systems ADSR08 Manchester
September 4th ADSR UK activity FFAG08 Manchester
July 28th ADSR + FFAG future plans 3rd FFAG workshop Cockcroft
July 28th Computation of Resistive Wakefields Wakefields Interest Group Cockcroft
April 8th BASROC and CONFORM Muon Source Workshop Cockcroft
March 20th Detecting Particles Masterclass Manchester
February 21st R HEP computing seminar Manchester
February 14th Collimator Wakefields in Merlin (for Adriana Bungau) MERLIN developers meeting DESY
February 11th Probability: Bayesian versus Frequentist and why it matters Seminar Ecole Polytechnique
January 7th ADSRs and FFAGs ADSR workshop Daresbury

2007

December 20-21 My year for Accelerators , eScience , BaBar and The Group Group Annual meeting Manchester
December 13th Some Wakefield issues LET workshop SLAC
December 6th Accelerator Science EPSRC visit Manchester
November 29th Deconvolution of a Causal Signal Wakefield Interest Group Cockcroft
November 26th CONFORM Scientific Advisory Committee Cockcroft
October 23rd Information for Simulations: Wakefields GDE Simulation Kickoff Meting Fermilab
October 15th Reconstructing Delta Wakes from Bunch Wakes COLSIM Meeting CERN
October 11th Results from Small Numbers Seminar Warwick
September 26th Results from Small Numbers Seminar Manchester
September 19th CONFORM Project Management Committee Cockcroft
September 7th Manchester and STFC and Particle Physics STFC visit Manchester
July Welcome to Manchester SuperNEMO meeting Manchester
June 28th Delta Wakes from Bunch Wakes (THPAN081 Paper and Poster) PAC 2007 Albuquerque
June 28th The CONFORM project (THPMN078 Paper and Poster) PAC 2007 Albuquerque
May 15th ILC collimator wakefield studies Wakefield workshop Daresbury
May 3rd The CONFORM project BASROC launch Daresbury
May 1st Particle Physics and eScience eSNW e-Science showcase Manchester
March 20th BaBar and the Grid GridPP18 Glasgow
March 1st From Bunch to Delta wakes Eurotev COLSIM meeting CERN

2006

December Status reports on Babar, Accelerators and The Manchester Group Christmas Meeting Manchester
December 4th Manchester and some collimation results Eurotev COLSIM meeting CERN
November 22nd EMMA - the first NS-FFAG Cockcroft SAC Daresbury
October 25th The Higgs Boson: what it is and how to find it Seminar UCLAN
October 2nd Results from small numbers Seminar QMUL
August pdf Lecture 1 , 2 , 3 , odp Lecture 1 , 2 , 3 SLUO lectures on confidence levels SLAC
July Rare B and tau decays and searches for New Physics Talk and Write-up ICHEP plenary talk Moscow
July 16th Limits from several channels; chi squared and significance BIRS workshop on statistics Banff
June 21st chi squared and sigma BaBar Collaboration Meeting Montreal
June MLR significance just thoughts
April FFAG bid Basic Technology Fund
February PHYSTAT: Making the most of statistical techniques Article CERN Courier
12 January Some Wakefield Studies Cockcroft All Hand Meeting Daresbury
10 January Everything you always wanted to know about limits YETI Durham
6 January Group Review of 2005/6 Annual Group Meeting Manchester
4 January Personal Review of 2005 Annual Group Meeting Manchester

2005

9 December Plans for HEPP2007 EPS HEPP committee meeting CERN
16 November Developments in Bayesian Priors IoP Half day meeting on Statistics Manchester
3 November Collimators (for Adam Mercer) Collimator Meeting Daresbury
3 November More about Wakefields Collimator Meeting Daresbury
12 October CALICE: UK plans CALICE Collaboration Meeting DESY
September What happens at CERN? Schools talk Altrincham
12 September Asymmetric Statistical Errors PHYSTAT05 Oxford
9 September CALICE: WP4 - Thermal and Mechanical CALICE UK Meeting Cambridge
13 July The BbgUtils package BabarGrid Meeting Ferrara
7 July Wake Fields and Collimators LC-ABD Meeting Cambridge
5 July babar and the grid GridPP 13 Durham
28 June Group computing Strategy PP Group Meeting Manchester
27 June PPARC Science at Manchester Northern Way Meeting Leeds
May Wakefields in High Energy beams(poster) PAC05 Knoxville
May Predicting PEP-II accelerator induced backgrounds with LPTURTLE(poster) PAC05 Knoxville
7th May Einstein's Legacy Public lecture Manchester
April tau to pi+- pi+ pi- pi0 nu BaBar meeting Durham
January Personal Review of 2004 Group Christmas Meeting Manchester

2004

December 2004 The UK Tier A Centre Babar CSC SLAC
8th December 2004 EMC Software News Babar collaboration Meeting SLAC
5th December 2004 EMC workshop summary and outlook Babar collaboration Meeting SLAC
November 2004 CALICE: Thermal and Mechanical issues CALICE UK Meeting UCL
22nd October 2004 CALICE Future Directions Meeting Manchester
12th October 2004 BaBar at RAL BaBar CSC Meeting SLAC
September 2004 BaBarGrid; UK status and plans BaBar Collaboration Meeting Dresden
23rd September 2004 EMC Status BaBar Collaboration Meeting Dresden
22nd September 2004 EMC Software Developments BaBar Collaboration Meeting Dresden
12th July 2004 EMC Simulation: progress and Plans BaBar Simulation Workshop SLAC
June 2004 EMC plans for Release 15/16 BaBar Collaboration Meeting SLAC
May 2004 Other Ongoing EMC Projects BaBar Collaboration Meeting SLAC
May 2004 2nd class currents BaBar Collaboration Meeting SLAC
April 2004 IoP HEPP Group Chairman's Report IoP HEPP group AGM Birmingham
March 2004 EMC status part 2 BaBar Operations Meeting SLAC
February 2004 AliBaBa: the first Distributed Physics Analysis ising the Grid BaBar Collaboration Meeting SLAC
February 2004 The EMC in 2004 BaBar Collaboration Meeting SLAC
4 February 2004 BaBarGrid GridPP9 CERN
27th January 2004 EMC + Neutrals Issues BaBar Neutrals Group Meeting SLAC
January 2004 Accelerators in 2003 Group Christmas Meeting Manchester
January 2004 Personal Review of 2003 Group Christmas Meeting Manchester
January 2004 Grid stuff in 2003 Group Christmas Meeting Manchester

2003

December 2003 EMC status BaBar Operations Meeting SLAC
November 2003 EMC status BaBar Operations Meeting SLAC
31st October 2003 The GRID - Hype or reality? J V Atanasoff Symposium Iowa State University
23 October 2003 UK TierA usage BaBar CSC SLAC
22 September 2003 EMC Backgrounds and Radiation Issues Background workshop SLAC
8 September 2003 Introduction to Statistical Issues in Particle Physics PHYSTAT03 SLAC
September 2003 Asymmetric Errors PHYSTAT03 SLAC
June 2003 Observaion in BaBar of a narrow resonance in the D+s pizero system at 2317 MeV FPCP conference Paris
June 2003 Babar distributed computing resources BaBar Computing review SLAC
May 2003 Asymmetric Errors BaBar collaboration meeting Elba
May 2003 A skimdata interface BaBar collaboration meeting Elba
5th February 2003 melting TESLA spoilers LC-UK meeting QMW
5th February 2003 The LC-ABD collaboration LC-UK meeting QMW
31st January The future of GridPP: BaBar, DØ and other experiments GridPP2 Cosenors House



Old talks: 2001, 2002

More on my SLAC website

Past results appear in various preprints and a book

Source code for the HMCMLL code for fitting distributions with finite MC statistics is available


My Myers-Briggs Psychological Type indicator is INTJ which explains a lot.