Current research
Cambridge / ATLAS
Working backwards from tracks in the ATLAS muon spectrometer to find where a particle might have decayed.
Read the ATLAS explainerWriting
Notebook
Notes on the physics I’m learning, the projects I’m working on, and the occasional detour.
Main projects
Summer 2026
CERN openlab
Investigating when floating-point rounding affects simulated collisions in the PEPPER event generator.
Read the first openlab note2025–26
UCL BSc
From simulated Higgs events to a statistical test for a future collider, using Rivet and Contur.
Follow the BSc reading orderBrowse by project
Dates on project introductions and retrospectives refer to when the work took place.
- What is ATLAS, and what does it do? Cambridge / ATLAS
- Which candidate gets the vertex? Cambridge / ATLAS
- – One collision, one place in the dataset Cambridge / ATLAS
- Wrapping up UCL: what I built, what I learnt, and what I’d do next UCL BSc
- What the numbers actually said: Contur at 13 and 85 TeV UCL BSc
- Finally, Contur: making measurements for a collider that hasn’t run yet UCL BSc
- Lost in translation: from HEL to SMEFT UCL BSc
- Yearly Catch up: a Higgs candidate is only half the story UCL BSc
- MPhil @ Cambridge Cambridge / ATLAS
- A short line in a very large detector Cambridge / ATLAS
- What counts as replaying the same collision? CERN openlab
- Explaining numerical precision in a lightning talk CERN openlab
- – Before a collision becomes a histogram CERN openlab
- – What happens when you let the rounding vary? CERN openlab
- How many digits does a collision need? CERN openlab
- Making precision a setting I could test CERN openlab
- Hunting boosted Higgs bosons with Rivet at FCC-hh UCL BSc
- How we simulate collisions before they happen: MadGraph and Herwig UCL BSc
- From the LHC to the FCC: why build an even bigger collider? UCL BSc
- Effective Field Theory and why I am using the Higgs Effective Lagrangian UCL BSc
- Week 5 – Tightening cuts, first BSM point, and a dark matter detour UCL BSc
- Week 4 – Cross-section detective work and the Rivet Routine the goat UCL BSc
- Week 3 – Less working, more meetings UCL BSc
- Week 2 – BRAVO Tuesday! UCL BSc
- Mid-Autumn Festival Personal
- Probing new physics at the LHC UCL Summer 2025
UCL BSc reading order
From simulated collisions to a statistical test
Follow the project from the question behind the Future Circular Collider to the numbers that came out of Contur.