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British Professor of Collider Physics
Victoria Jane Martin is a Scottish physicist who is Professor of Collider Physics at the
University of Edinburgh . She works on the
ATLAS experiment on the
Higgs boson .
Early life and education
Martin studied
mathematical physics at the
University of Edinburgh , graduating with a
Bachelor of Science degree in 1996.
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[2] She remained there for her postgraduate studies, working on
CP violation on the
NA48 experiment .
[1] She completed her PhD thesis A measurement of the CP violation parameter Re(e'/e) in 2000.
[3] During her PhD she visited
CERN , where she enjoyed the diverse disciplines of people she worked with.
[4] She was a student of
Peter Higgs .
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Research and career
Martin spent five years as a
postdoctoral researcher at
Northwestern University . She returned to
Edinburgh in 2005, where she was appointed a lecturer.
[8] She is a member of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy.
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Martin works on the
ATLAS experiment and
Compact Linear Collider .
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[11] She has received significant funding from the
Science and Technology Facilities Council to support upgrades to the particle collider.
[12] She is searching for the
Higgs boson production, in association with
top quarks .
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[15] She looks for how it couples to the fermions of the
Standard Model .
[16] She gave the 2013 MacMillan Lecture at the
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland .
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[16] She took a sabbatical at
CERN in 2015.
[18] During this time, she delivered the
Royal Institution lecture Big Bucks for Big Bosons: Should we still be paying for the Large Hadron Collider? .
[19] In 2017 she took part in a
British Council tour of India, talking about the
Higgs boson .
[20] Martin is the Chair of the
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
peer review panel and the theme leader for the Scottish Universities' Physics Alliance.
[21] She is also involved in the teaching and administration of several courses at
The University of Edinburgh .
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Martin is on the Board of Trustees of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh and the advisory board of Perspective Realism.
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[24] She took part in the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe .
[25] She has taken part in several interviews with the
BBC .
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References
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"Victoria Martin - Edinburgh Research Explorer" . research.ed.ac.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"RSSA 12th May 2014" . rssa.org.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
^ Martin, Victoria Jane (2005).
A Measurement of the CP Violation Parameter Re(e'/e) . inspirehep.net (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
hdl :
1842/12588 .
OCLC
606176121 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.657373 .
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"Interview with Victoria Martin: Professor of Collider Physics at University of Edinburgh" . primoassociates.com . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Higgs boson prof 'would love honour' " . Edinburgh News . Archived from
the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Victoria Martin: Soon we'll be able to pinpoint that particle" . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Victoria Martin" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Prof. Dr. Victoria Martin - AcademiaNet" . academia-net.org . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"YAS Members - Victoria Martin" . youngacademyofscotland.org.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
^ Quiz a Whiz with the RSE (12 February 2016),
Victoria Martin on Being a Particle Physicist , retrieved 1 October 2018
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"Victoria Martin, CLiC" (PDF) . CERN . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"UK RI Gateway Victoria Martin" . UKRI . Retrieved 10 January 2018 .
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"Birmingham Particle Physics Seminar 16th May 2018" . www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
^ ATLAS Collaboration (2018). "Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector". Physics Letters B . 784 : 173–191.
arXiv :
1806.00425 .
Bibcode :
2018PhLB..784..173A .
doi :
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.035 .
S2CID
119357386 .
^ Abramowicz, H.; Tehrani, N. Alipour; Arominski, D.; Benhammou, Y.; Benoit, M.; Blaising, J.-J.; Boronat, M.; Borysov, O.; Bosley, R. R. (2019). "Top-quark physics at the CLIC electron-positron linear collider". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2019 (11): 003.
arXiv :
1807.02441 .
Bibcode :
2019JHEP...11..003C .
doi :
10.1007/JHEP11(2019)003 .
S2CID
85505969 .
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b IESIS (24 September 2015),
Victoria Martin Higgs Boson IESIS The MacMillan Lecture , retrieved 1 October 2018
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" 'God Particle or God-damn Particle? Work at the Hadron Collider' " (PDF) . IESIS . Retrieved 10 January 2018 .
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"Prof. Victoria Martin | PHYESTA" . phyesta.supa.ac.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Big bucks for big bosons: Should we still be paying for the Large Hadron Collider?" . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Science and Beyond: Public Talks by Victoria Martin | British Council" . britishcouncil.in . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"PROF Victoria J Martin" . www2.ph.ed.ac.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"PROF Victoria J Martin" . 2.ph.ed.ac.uk . Retrieved 3 November 2021 .
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"International Advisory Board | Perspectival Realism" . perspectivalrealism.org . April 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"RSE Scotland SCIO - The Royal Society of Edinburgh" . The Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Prof. Victoria Martin – Big Bucks for Big Bosons – what's the point of the LHC" . Edinburgh Skeptics Society . 8 July 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
^ Nanjiani, Shereen.
"BBC - Radio Scotland blog: Shereen Sunday Interview: Dr Victoria Martin" . Bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .