Richard Hall-Wilton

richard.hall-wilton[at]esss.se
+46 46 888 3089
ESS, Tunavägen 24, Lund, Sweden
55o42'29.74''N
13o13'11.03''E

Background

2011 - Detector Group Leader, ESS, Sweden
2005 - Research Scientist, CERN, Switzerland
2001 - Research Associate, University College London, DESY, Germany
1999 - Research Associate, York University, Canada

1998 - PhD, Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Bristol
1995 - MA, BA, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

Area of interest

Neutron detectors
Advanced detector systems
Diamond detectors
Beam monitoring
Fundamental Physics

Other information

Prof. Richard John Hall-Wilton studied Natural Sciences (physics and geology) at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK. With the thesis entitled "Diffractive and non-diffractive charm production in deep inelastic scattering at the ZEUS experiment on HERA", he obtained his PhD in experimental particle physics at Bristol University in 1999. Since then he held different research positions at various universities and research institutes: York University Canada, University College London, Wisconsin University, and 6 years with CERN. His adjunct professorship position with Mid-Sweden University in Sundsvall started in 2013. Prof. Richard Hall-Wilton has been based primarily at European research institutes - firstly at DESY, then CERN and currently at ESS – with the only exception of two years (1999-2000) in Toronto, Canada, building a detector upgrade for the ZEUS experiment in Hamburg. Throughout his career, he has been centrally involved in designing, developing, building, installing, commissioning and operating advanced detector systems and has a wide and varied experience in detectors. He is a world expert in neutron and diamond detector technologies, and has extensive experience with gaseous detectors and semiconductor detectors. He has developed beam monitors as both safety and monitoring systems, advanced triggers for large experiments, including zero- and minimum-biases for the CMS experiment at the LHC, and also tracking triggers. He was a physics coordinator for heavy flavor physics on the ZEUS experiment in DESY, Hamburg. At CERN, he was a core member of the CMS technical coordination team as well as coordinator of the beam and radiation monitoring for CMS, as well as a key bridge-person between CMS and the LHC machine. Since arriving at ESS at the beginning of 2011, Prof. Richard Hall-Wilton has been group leader for the detector group. He is also deputy division head of instrument technologies. This period has comprised building the detector group at ESS, as well as leading the critical R+D effort for ESS to find replacements to the isotope Helium-3 as the detection medium for neutrons. Presently there are approximately 20 partnerships and collaborations from across Europe and several international ones. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2014 A very intense neutrino super beam experiment for leptonic CP violation discovery based on the European spallation source linac Geant4 based simulations for novel neutron detector development High energy particle background at neutron spallation sources and possible solutions Status of the European Spallation Source ESS AB, the instrument selection process, and a fundamental physics beamline at the ESS. 2013 (B4C)-B-10 Multi-Grid as an Alternative to He-3 for Large Area Neutron Detectors A B-10-based neutron detector with stacked MultiWire Proportional Counters and macrostructured cathodes A novel small-angle neutron scattering detector geometry B-10 multi-grid proportional gas counters for large area thermal neutron detectors Development of a novel macrostructured cathode for large-area neutron detectors based on the B-10-containing solid converter Investigation of gamma-ray sensitivity of neutron detectors based on thin converter films B4C thin films for neutron detection Detectors for the European Spallation Source Statistical Energy Determination in Neutron Detector Systems for Neutron Scattering Science Design, implementation and first measurements with the Medipix2-MXR detector at the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment Mixing thermodynamics of TM1-xGdxN (TM=Ti, Zr, Hf) from first principles 2012 B4C thin films for neutron detection Detectors for the European Spallation Source Statistical Energy Determination in Neutron Detector Systems for Neutron Scattering Science 2011 Design, implementation and first measurements with the Medipix2-MXR detector at the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment Mixing thermodynamics of TM1-xGdxN (TM=Ti, Zr, Hf) from first principles A total of 112 papers as a member of the ZEUS Collaboration (1996-2006); 18 additional papers as a member of the RD42 Collaboration (1995-1996, 2006-2011), and over 400 additional papers as a member of the CMS Collaboration since 2006. A full listing of the high energy physics papers can be found here: http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=find+a+hall-wilton&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 COLLABORATION MEMBERSHIP Advisory board between ERDIT and nnbar (2014 --) Swedish Radiation Detector Platform (2014 --) nnbar Collaboration at ESS (2014 --) ESSnuSB Collaboration (2013 --) Founding member of ERDIT (2013--) RD51: Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector Development (2012--) Advisory Board of the Helmholz - "Detector Technologies and Systems Platform" (2011 --) International Collaboration Neutron Detector Development (2006-2011) CMS collaboration at the LHC (1995-2006) ZEUS Collaboration at HERA (1995-2011) RD42: Diamond detector development

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