Physics — Paolo Minhas

Research

Four projects spanning detector physics, flavour physics, and neutrino oscillations — an MPhys thesis, a summer placement, and two further research projects, all built on the same ROOT/Python analysis toolchain.

Particle PhysicsDetector PhysicsHIBEAM

MPhys Thesis — HIBEAM Prototype TPC

Geant4 simulation and dE/dx analysis of the prototype TPC detector for HIBEAM, benchmarked against real beam-test data — including an interactive 3D detector-geometry explorer and a live collision visualisation.

University of Edinburgh, with beam-test data from IFJ PAN, Kraków 2025–2026

LHCbFlavour PhysicsMachine Learning

Charmed Λ Baryon Decays (LHCb)

Working with Prof. Dr hab. Mariusz Witek's group on the LHCb collaboration, building an XGBoost-based classifier to separate genuine charmed Λ baryon decay signal from combinatorial background.

Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN), Kraków Summer 2026

Neutrino PhysicsDUNESimulation

GLoBES Simulations of DUNE Detectors

Using the General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator (GLoBES) to model neutrino oscillation sensitivity for different DUNE detector configurations — how far-detector design choices affect what the experiment can actually measure.

University of Edinburgh 2025

Neutrino PhysicsDUNEData Analysis

Data Analysis of the DUNE Near Detector

Analysis of near-detector data from DUNE using ROOT — characterising near-detector event samples as a cross-check against the physics assumptions that far-detector oscillation measurements depend on.

University of Edinburgh 2025–2026