Eugene Kennedy

Professor Kennedy was appointed in 1986 as Professor of Physics and Head of School at Dublin City University (DCU) and served as Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1987 to 1994. He has published widely, served on international Advisory Boards, coordinated EU research networks and carried out research at facilities in Wash. DC, Hamburg, Paris and Berkeley. He was the founding Director of the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology and was appointed university Vice-President for Research in December 2004, holding this position until his recent retirement. He served as Chair of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland from 2006 to 2011. He is now Professor Emeritus at DCU.

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Stimulated by the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the elusive Higgs Boson, interest in particle physics continues at a high level among scientists and the general public. This book includes theoretical aspects, with chapters outlining the generation model and a charged Higgs boson model as alternative scenarios to the Standard Model. An introduction is provided to postulated axion photon interactions and associated photon dispersion in magnetized media. The complexity of particle physics research requiring the synergistic combination of theory, hardware and computation is described in terms of the e-science paradigm. The book concludes with a chapter tackling potential radiation hazards associated with extremely weakly interacting neutrinos if produced in copious amounts with future high-energy muon-collider facilities.

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Particle Physics

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