Paul Jackson

Associate Professor Paul Jackson is an experimental particle physicist specialising in searches for beyond the Standard Model physics, primarily using detectors situated at particle colliders.

Within the Centre, Jackson leads the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program and is a member of the research executive. He uses the LHC collisions, recorded by the ATLAS experiment, to search for evidence of dark matter production and extend the Centre’s experimental reach to dark matter masses and interactions for which direct detection experiments have little sensitivity.

Jackson interrogates the data collected from ATLAS, establishing regions of parameter space sensitive to signals arising from dark matter candidates. He mentors students at all levels in this program and his groups provides a bottom-up approach to their dark matter hunting, working on the detector operations and gaining a deeper understanding of the physics objects produced in ATLAS to assist in their quest.

Outside of his leadership of the LHC program, he works on hardware development projects and has a strong interest in furthering opportunities for everyone to participate in physics through his efforts in education and outreach.

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Research Theme: Large Hadron Collider, Direct Detection