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Comment: Per WP:ARXIV, that source is considered user-generated and therefore not reliable. Are those papers not available in a more credible source?Also, please don't cite social media for the same reasons. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:47, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
David Colling is Professor of Physics and e-Science and director of research data strategy at Imperial College London.[1] He is a member of the team that helped to discover the Higgs boson at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, where he works on the CMS experiment.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Colling grew up in North Wales, where he attended Ysgol Brynhyfryd, a bilingual co-educational comprehensive school in the town of Ruthin in Clwyd.[3] He obtained his degree in physics at Imperial College London before completing his PhD in high-energy physics on the ALEPH experiment at CERN under his supervisor Peter Dornan, FRS.[4]
Initial career
[edit]As a post-doc in the late 1990s, Colling worked on the D0 experiment on the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab outside Chicago.[5] At the time, the Tevatron was the world's highest-energy accelerator, until its energy was surpassed by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2009.[6]
In 2000, Colling joined the CMS experiment at CERN, which would generate vast quantities of data that needed to be distributed, analysed and interpreted. He helped to develop the distributed computing model that would be used by CMS and the other LHC experiments, and the worldwide LHC computing grid and its British component, GridPP.[5]
In 2005, Colling resumed work on the physics of the Higgs boson and, in particular, its coupling to tau leptons, in preparation for the start of physics experiments using the LHC.[5] He was a member of the team that helped to discover the Higgs boson in 2012, showing how particles have mass and thus how stars, planets and people can form.[2] He was also among those to first observe a Higgs boson decaying to pair of tau leptons in 2018 and to conduct the first investigation of the charge-parity nature of the Higgs boson coupling to tau leptons in 2022, demonstrating why matter exists in the universe and does not continually annihilate into energy.[7][8]
Professor of Physics and e-Science
[edit]Colling was appointed Professor of Physics and e-Science at Imperial College London in 2016. His inaugural lecture, delivered in December 2019, was called "The Higgs: what is it good for?".[5]
Colling is director of data strategy at Imperial and holds numerous committee roles.[9] He is director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Physics at Imperial and a fellow of the college's Data Science Institute.[10][11]
As well as conducting research into fundamental physics, Colling co-founded and co-directs the masters by research degree in machine learning and big data in the physical sciences at Imperial.[12]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Colling was head of lab for second-year physics undergraduates at Imperial. In this role, he masterminded the "lab in a box" experiments that were distributed to students worldwide.[13] Imperial was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for its response to the pandemic.[14]
In the course of his career so far, Colling has written or co-authored some 1,500 scientific papers.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "David Colling". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ a b "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "David Colling". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "The Higgs: what is it good for?". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d "The Higgs: what is it good for". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "LHC sets new world record". www.cern.ch. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Analysis of the CP structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and τ leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV". www.springer.com/. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Research Computing Service Governance". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Physics". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Data Science Institute Academic Fellows". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "MRes Machine Learning and Big Data in the Physical Sciences". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Physics students and staff develop 'Lab in a Box' experiments for home study". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Imperial awarded Queen's Anniversary Prize for COVID-19 response". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "David J. Colling". www.inspirehep.net/. Retrieved 13 January 2025.