Wendy Taylor (physicist)

Wendy Taylor
Taylor in 2012
Born20 February
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Known forCP violation
Magnetic monopole
Scientific career
InstitutionsYork University
Stony Brook University
Thesis (1999)
Doctoral advisorPekka Sinervo
Fermilab's Tevatron Accelerator

Wendy Taylor is an Experimental Particle Physicist at York University and a former Canada Research Chair. She is the lead for York University's ATLAS experiment group at CERN.

Education

Taylor graduated from the University of British Columbia with Bachelors of Science in Physics in 1991.[1] As an undergraduate, she worked at TRIUMF, working on rare kaon decay.[1] She completed her graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she earned a PhD under the supervision of Pekka Sinervo in 1999.[2][3] She worked on fragmentation properties of the bottom quark.[4] She worked at Stony Brook University as a postdoctoral fellow.[5][6] She worked on Fermilab's D0 experiment, building electronics to detect bottom quark particles in real time.[1][7]

Research

Taylor's research focuses on the magnetic monopole. To do this, she is using the ATLAS detector.[8][9] Her lab concentrated on the development of firmware for the transition radiation tracker within the ATLAS experiment.[10] She is motivated by predictions from Grand Unified Theory, the observation of quantised charge and potential to reinforce the symmetry in Maxwell's equations.[11]

Fermilab's Tevatron Accelerator

Taylor spent five years working at the Tevatron particle accelerator. She was concerned when it lost government funding in 2011.[12] Whilst working at the Fermilab Tevatron particle accelerator, Taylor identified CP violation in the decay of bottom quarks, which could contribute to the dominance of matter in the universe.[13] The rate at which she detected CP violation was two-orders of magnitude larger than that predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.[14][15]

She joined York University in 2004, where she was one of two women in the department.[16] She held a Canada Research Chair between 2004 and 2014.[16]

Taylor is a member of the American Physical Society and the Particle Physics Division of the Canadian Association of Physicists.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b c ExpertFile. "Wendy Taylor Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy - Expert with York University | ExpertFile". expertfile.com. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  2. ^ "Former Graduate Students — Department of Physics". www.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  3. ^ "Pekka K. Sinervo, FRSC — Pekka Sinervo". sites.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  4. ^ Taylor, Wendy Jane (1999). "A measurement of b-quark fragmentation fractions in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV". Ph.D. Thesis: 4679. Bibcode:1999PhDT........78T.
  5. ^ Taylor, Wendy (2003-03-13). "The Physics of b Quarks" (PDF). Stony Brook University. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  6. ^ ORCID. "Wendy Taylor (0000-0002-6596-9125) - ORCID | Connecting Research and Researchers". orcid.org. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  7. ^ Martin., Erdmann (2003). Hadron Collider Physics 2002 : Proceedings of the 14th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 29-October 4,2002. Müller, Thomas. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 232. ISBN 3642555241. OCLC 840292012.
  8. ^ "Many theories predict existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them". Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  9. ^ "Search for magnetic monopoles in $sqrt{s}=7$~TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector". atlas.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  10. ^ "Faculty Members - Wendy Taylor". York University. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  11. ^ Taylor, Wendy. "The Search for Magnetic Monopoles at the ATLAS Detector" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  12. ^ "Fermilab's Tevatron collider to shut down this year". Excalibur Publications. 2011-06-18. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  13. ^ "A New Clue In The Antimatter Mystery". The Square. 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  14. ^ "McGill Physics: CHEP seminars". www.physics.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  15. ^ "Heavy Flavour Physics News from the Tevatron Wendy Taylor for the CDF and D Ø Collaborations APS/AAPT 2010, Washington, DC, February 13-16, ppt download". slideplayer.com. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  16. ^ a b Horn, Michiel (2010). York University : the way must be tried. Pietropaolo, Vincenzo., York University (Toronto, Ont.), Canadian Electronic Library. Montreal [Que.]: Published for York University by McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0773577244. OCLC 759157045.
  17. ^ "RASC Mississauga: Antimatter: From the Subatomic to the Cosmological Scales | RASC Toronto". rascto.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  18. ^ "Particle Physics Division (PPD) - Canadian Association of Physicists". Canadian Association of Physicists. Retrieved 2018-02-19.