Dr Ed Daw
Lecturer in Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Contact details
- Room : D28
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24353
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : e.daw@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Dark matter searches
- Gravitational radiation
- Axions
- Signal processing
- Vibration isolation
Research projects
- EURECA
- ZEPLIN-II
- DRIFT
- ILIAS
- GEO
- LIGO
Teaching
- PHY314 (lectures)
- PHY323 (lectures)
Departmental administration
- Year tutor for 4th year Physics students
- Teaching committee
- Staff-Student committee
- Chair of M.Phys. committee
Professional activities
- Member of the governing council and board for ILIAS
- Analysis co-ordinator for ZEPLIN II experiment
- Coordinator of EU ILIAS Advanced Dark Matter Detector Group
- Referee for Physical Review D and Classical and Quantum Gravity journals
- Reviewer for US NSF and PPARC PIPSS proposals
Recent key publications
- Large-scale microwave cavity search for dark-matter axions, Physical Review D, 64 (2001) 092003.
- Long-term study of the seismic environment at LIGO, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21 (2004) 2255-2273.
- First upper limits for ligo on gravitational wave bursts, Physical Review D, 69 (2004) 102001.
- First limits on WIMP nuclear recoil signals in ZEPLIN-II: a two phase xenon detector for dark matter detection, in press, Astroparticle Physics, G. J. Alner et al