Sergey Burdin

Professor Sergey Burdin is a faculty member in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool. He coordinates and teaches modules including Nuclear and Particle Physics (PHYS204), Computational Physics (PHYS205), and Thermal Physics (PHYS102). His research focuses on experimental particle physics, particularly dark matter detection and high-energy collider physics.

His primary research interests include:

• Dark matter searches with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment
• Particle detector development and calibration
• ATLAS experiment physics at the Large Hadron Collider
• Exotic particle decays and beyond-Standard Model physics
• Computational methods in particle physics

Professor Burdin's recent publications (2025) predominantly analyze proton-proton collision data from the ATLAS detector at CERN, focusing on precision measurements of Standard Model processes (jet energy scales, WW production, Higgs decays) and searches for new physics (sleptons, pseudoscalars). Technical computing papers address resource optimization for large-scale experiments.

He leads significant research grants including:

• XLZD@Boulby - Xenon Futures R&D Phase 3 (2023-2025)
• Joint UK R&D programme for noble liquid detectors (2021-2024)
• Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grants (2019-2026)
• LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Search (2015-2019)

Professor Burdin supervises postgraduate research on dark matter detector calibration, data quality monitoring for LZ, and ATLAS physics analyses. He maintains professional membership in the American Physical Society since 2004 and contributes as a reviewer for Nuclear Instruments and Methods.