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Geoff Hall (physicist)

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Hall joined CERN's CMS project in 1992, working mainly on tracking detectors and readout electronics. One of his biggest challenges on the CMS project was to develop detectors that could survive the intense radiation near the LHC's colliding
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Geoffrey Hall's work on detector designs and exploitation of programmable digital electronics for real-time measurements will considerably extend the physics reach of the LHC.
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beams for long enough to capture useful data. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, Hall's attention has focused on extending the lifetime of the LHC project.
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Hall began his research career as a post-doctoral research assistant at Imperial College in 1974 and, except for brief periods at the
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Hall, G (2010). "8: Innovations in the CMS Tracker Electronics". In Green, Dan (ed.).
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Hall, G (2010). "8: Innovations in the CMS Tracker Electronics". In Green, Dan (ed.).
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and other electronic instruments for use in particle physics experiments, notably the
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detector (part of the LHC project), which played a key role in the discovery of the
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Hall has received multiple honours and awards for his work, including the
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O'Hare, Ryan; Brogan, Caroline; Dunning, Hayley (6 May 2021).
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At the Leading Edge: The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments
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At the Leading Edge: The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments
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Geoff Hall
FRS
Imperial College London
Particle physics
Duddell Medal
James Chadwick Medal
Imperial College London
Official website
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FRS
particle physicist
Imperial College London
radiation
particle detectors
CMS
Large Hadron Collider
University of California, Santa Cruz
CERN
CMS
Higgs boson
Stanford Linear Accelerator
bubble chamber
Cherenkov counters
charmed quarks
proton
Duddell Medal
James Chadwick Medal and Prize
Institute of Physics
Fellow of the Royal Society
At the Leading Edge: The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments

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