Dr Tony Weidberg
Dr Tony Weidberg
Tutorial Fellow in Physics
Email: Dr Tony Weidberg
Teaching Interests
I currently tutor the full range of the first year physics course which includes mechanics, special relativity and electromagnetism. I also tutor electromagnetism and optics for the second years. I helped develop the new advanced option course in particle physics and currently teach some of the lectures and classes. I have been an examiner for Physics finals and Prelims (first year exams).
Research Interests
I have worked on the design and construction of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) at CERN. At the LHC there are currently collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV (which will be upgraded to 14 TeV in 2013) which is opening up a new window in physics allowing us to explore new physics such as supersymmetry at the TeV scale as well as searching for the Higgs boson. I was responsible for the development and commissioning of the optical links for the read-out of the Silicon strip detector. The LHC is working very well and we already have very large data sets for analysis. I am also involved in the R&D for the upgraded silicon tracker for the high luminosity upgrade of the accelerator, HL-LHC.
