Andrey Golutvin

Andrey Golutvin is a Professor and Chair in Physics at the Department of Physics within the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. He is based at the Blackett Laboratory on the South Kensington Campus and serves as a leading researcher in particle physics. His work is primarily associated with the High Energy Physics Group and the Physics of Particles research area at Imperial.

Professor Golutvin's research focuses on searches for new fundamental particles which are very weakly-interacting. His primary research activity is the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment, which he proposed in 2013 to search for light, new particles. The SHiP experiment aims to search for a wide range of light and weakly interacting particles that could solve major problems in particle physics, including the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe, neutrino masses and mixing patterns, and dark matter candidates. Under his leadership, the SHiP collaboration has grown from 16 authors in the original Letter of Intent to 250 authors from 33 institutes in 16 countries. CERN management approved the experiment in March 2024.

His recent publications reveal a strong focus on rare particle decays, precision measurements in B physics, neutrino detection, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. His work spans both theoretical investigations and experimental analyses, with significant contributions to the LHCb experiment where he served as spokesperson from 2008-2011 and previously led the LHCb calorimeter project from 1998-2008. His research often involves collaborations with major international laboratories and has resulted in numerous high-impact publications in journals like Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of High Energy Physics.

Professor Golutvin has advised various international laboratories on scientific policy, serving on committees including the INFN scientific committee at LNF (Italy), the Belle Advisory Committee at KEK (Japan), and CERN's Scientific Policy and Large Hadron Collider committees. His work with the search engine company Yandex applied machine learning tools to signal-background separation in particle physics, demonstrating his interdisciplinary approach to research problems.

His laboratory and research activities are centered around the High Energy Physics Group at Imperial College London, with significant involvement in the LHCb experiment at CERN and the SHiP experiment. He collaborates extensively with researchers across the globe, as evidenced by the large international author lists on his publications. His work continues to push the boundaries of particle physics, particularly in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model through both direct searches at colliders and dedicated experiments like SHiP.