Patrick Koppenburg

Physicist at Nikhef working on the LHCb Experiment at CERN and on future collider experiments.

LHCb

I am working on the LHCb experiment, in charge of the user analysis software framework. Previously I was chair of the editorial board (2018-20), physics coordinator (2014-15) and operations coordinator (2010-14) of the LHCb experiment.

Future Accelerators

There is a consensus that the next accelerator after the LHC should be an electron-positron collider producing Higgs bosons, and more. Under the umbrella of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) I am co-coordinating the physics perfomance studies of such future proposals.

Flavour anomalies

My interests are focused on sub-leading contributions from so-called penguin diagrams. Electroweak penguins are a laboratory of new physics. QCD penguins are potentially bringing new phases into the game. I do precision measurements to learn more. And hopefully find physics beyond the standard Model.

I performed the first measurement of lepton universality at the LHC. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (2014) 151601.

Exotic spectroscopy

I am also involved in the study of new forms of matter: tetraquarks and pentaquarks. One of my CERN summer students was among the first to spot pentaquarks in 2011.

Media

I believe it is important to explain to the public what we are doing and why.

What I do

My output are papers, reports and talks. See below.

Papers

I have more than 500 published papers

All Papers

Talks

I present recent results from my work in seminars and conferences.

All Talks

Books and reviews

I have been invited to contribute to books and reviews

All Reviews

Links

A popular page with links to flavour physics experiments.

Flavour Physics

Media

My appearances in the press.

Press

Lectures

I also teach.

Lectures

Threads

I sometimes explain physics papers on twitter

Threads

LHCb

I work on the LHCb experiment at CERN

LHCb

Amsterdam

Nikhef
Science Park 105
1098 XG Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Geneva

PH/ULB 13 1-026
CERN
1211 Genève 23
Switzerland