A life cycle assessment of the ISIS-II neutron and muon source
Published in ArXiv, 2024
Title: A life cycle assessment of the ISIS-II neutron and muon source
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Portfolio
This page includes information about the HECAP+ grassroots initiative, and some of my publications and seminars.
The Sustainable HECAP+ Initiative
The Sustainable HECAP+ initiative is a grassroots initiative consisting of scientists in the High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics (HECAP+) communities who are concerned about the climate crisis and advocating for a transition towards fairer and more sustainable practices in our fields. We want to limit the impact of our research on the world’s climate and ecosystems by striving for a sustainable and just future. We formed this initiative after the first Sustainable High Energy Physics workshop that was held back in 2021. We wanted a tangible outcome of the workshop and so came together (completely remotely!) to write a reflection document. 2 years later we made “Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+” public on UN World Environment Day 2023, and we expect publication in JINST in the coming months. In the document we aim to reflect on the environmental impacts of our fields, highlight best practice and provide recommendations to individuals, groups and institutions to make positive changes.
Version 2.0 of our reflection document is available to download. It is also possible to endorse the document as an individual or an organisation.
Publications
A test of lepton flavor universality with a measurement of $R$($D^*$) using hadronic $B$ tagging at the Belle II experiment
Published in ArXiv, 2024
Due to having moved on from the Belle II Collaboration by the time of publication, authorship was acknowledged internally but is in the process of being acknowledged in the PRD publication. This is one of the Belle II Collaboration studies that my work directly contributed to.
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Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+
Published in ArXiv, 2023
Title: Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+
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A measurement of the denominators of $R$($D^{(∗)}$) with 189 inverse femtobarns of Belle II data
Published in McGill Archive, 2023
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Diversity and inclusion activities in Belle II (2022 update)
Published in ArXiv, 2022
These proceedings accompany the Belle II talk in the Science in Society parallel session delivered during Lepton Photon 2021. In this talk we present updated membership statistics using 10 years of data with a diversity and inclusion lens, and we present Belle II’s most recent activities to aid and improve diversity and inclusion. This report has the intention to bring light to the social working environment and population representation within our collaboration and, by extension, within high energy physics. Belle II is a particle physics collaboration that has over 1000 people from institutions in 26 countries who work together to achieve its physics goals. Belle II is committed to fostering an open, diverse, and inclusive environment; as part of this commitment it created a diversity office to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion issues, promote an inclusive atmosphere within the collaboration, provide a safe and confidential point to contact for collaborators to report any issues, particularly those related to discrimination and harassment, and ensure that persons from underrepresented groups are considered for positions of responsibility within the collaboration. Diversity and inclusion activities and initiatives at Belle II and analysis of the demographics of the collaboration will be presented.
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Diversity and Inclusion at Belle II: Where We Are, What We’ve Done and Where We Want To Be
Published in ArXiv, 2021
The Belle II Collaboration comprises over 1000 international high energy physicists, who investigate the properties of b-quarks and other particles at the luminosity frontier. In order to achieve our aim of a successful physics program, it is essential that we emphasise contributions from a diverse community. Belle II has thus far focused on diversity in gender and sexuality, among other efforts within our collaboration. These efforts are led by our two Diversity Officers, elected to the newly created positions in 2018. Their role has been to promote an inclusive atmosphere, raising awareness of diversity and being a safe first point of call for issues of discrimination and harassment. These proceedings accompany the short talk delivered during ICHEP 2020, marking the first conference the Belle II Collaboration has presented in the diversity and inclusion stream. It details the efforts described above, as well as examining the evolving gender demographics of our community, since membership began in 2011.
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Diversity and inclusion activities in Belle II
Published in ArXiv, 2021
These proceedings accompany the Belle II talk in the Diversity and Inclusion parallel session delivered during ICHEP 2020. This marks the first external presentation by the Belle II Collaboration, in which we present some of our data and self-reported statistics regarding diversity and inclusion. We also present Belle II’s current and planned activities to aid and improve diversity and inclusion. We find that there is still a lot to be done to improve the social working environment and population representation within our collaboration and within high energy physics.
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Measurement of the semileptonic ${B}^0$ to $D^{*} l nu_l$ branching fraction with fully reconstructed $B$ meson decays and 34.6 fb$^{-1}$ of Belle II data.
Published in ArXiv, 2020
One of the primary authors of the “Measurement of the semileptonic $\bar{B}^0 \rightarrow D^{*+} \ell^{-} \nu_{\ell}$ branching fraction with fully reconstructed B meson decays and 34.6 fb${^−1}$of Belle II data”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10299 accompanied with internal Belle II documents (not available to the public).
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Harnessing butterflies: theory and practice of the Stochastic Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System (StocSIPS), In Nonlinear Advances in Geosciences
Published in Springer Link, 2017
Acknowledged in this paper for undergraduate work.
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Talks
Particle Accelerator Environmental Sustainability
Seminar at Physics Institute, Bonn, Germany
Accelerating Sustainability
Public Talk at Institute of Physics, London, UK
Environmental Sustainability and Particle Accelerators
Seminar at ISIS Accelerator Development Seminar Series, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Updated results of a life cycle assessment of the ISIS-II neutron and muon source
Conference talk at ICHEP 2024, Remote
Evaluating the environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source
Workshop talk at Sustainable HEP Workshop 2024, Remote
Life Cycle Assessments and issues with them (particularly for physicists and non-experts)
Invited talk at Laboratory Directors Group Environmental Sustainability Working Group, Remote
The ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source Sustainability and electrical power converter considerations
Workshop talk at iFast Workshop on Efficiency of Electrical Power Converters for Accelerator Applications, ESS, Sweden
The environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source
Invited talk at ATLAS Sustainability Forum, Geneva, Switzerland
Evaluating the environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source
Webinar at STFC ISIS-II Webinar, RAL, UK
Performing a Life Cycle Assessment for the ISIS-II Neutron And Muon Source
Seminar at Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
Performing a Life Cycle Assessment for the ISIS-II Neutron And Muon Source
Seminar at Manchester University, Manchester, UK
The environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source
Invited talk at Sustainable Accelerators Panel, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
The environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source
Seminars at various accelerator facilities, Europe
The ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source Life Cycle Assessment: An introduction
Conference talk at Iwate Prefecture Citizen's Cultural Exchange Center Aiina, Morioka, Japan (Remote)
Environmental Sustainability at Future Colliders
Flash talk at UK Future Collider Town Hall Early Career Researcher Meeting, Birmingham, UK (Remote)
Latest semileptonic results from Belle II
Conference Talk at Winter Institute, Lake Louise, AB, Canada
Diversity and Inclusion Activities in Belle II.
Conference Talk at Lepton Photon 2022, Manchester, UK (Remote)
Is sustainable HEP possible? The answer’s probably no.
Conference Talk at Sustainable HEP 2022, Remote
Diversity and Inclusion Activities in the Belle II Collaboration.
Conference Talk at ICHEP 2020, Prague, Czech Republic (Remote)
R(D(*)) Measurement at the Belle II Detector.
Conference Talk at CAP 2019, Simon Frasier University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Why Does It (Anti-)Matter?
Public Talk at Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Other
Please find a list of resources that are some other outputs of my time in academia.
John Adams Institute, Oxford & The ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source
Sustainability in HECAP+: Website, publication and possibility to endorse this work.
The 3rd edition of the Sustainable HEP Workshop 2024
McGill & Belle II
Belle II Poster presented at QAtCanSTEM: Poster pdf
Belle II Academy: A presentation on useful tools for $\LaTeX$ equations
ICHEP2020 Diversity and Inclusion Activities in Belle II Presentation: YouTube Recording, slides and proceedings.