Xabier Cid Vidal

Xabier Cid Vidal is a Professor in the Department of Particle Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Faculty of Physics and the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE). His research focuses on high energy physics, particularly using Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data to study particle decays, CP violation phenomena, and exotic hadron states. He completed his PhD in 2012 under Dr. José Angel Hernando Morata and Dr. Bernardo Adeva Andany, investigating rare B meson decays at LHCb.

Key research areas include B physics, heavy flavor spectroscopy, and precision measurements of particle lifetimes/branching fractions. His work contributes to LHCb experiments analyzing quark-gluon plasma effects, resonance spectroscopy, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. Recent studies involve angular distribution analyses, Bose-Einstein correlations, and coherence effects in ultraperipheral collisions.

Publications emphasize rare decay channels (e.g., B→Kμμ, pentaquark searches), CP asymmetry measurements, and jet substructure characterization. He collaborates in the Smart@HEP group exploring machine learning applications for new physics discovery. No major awards are explicitly listed, though his contributions to LHCb analyses are significant. Active in detector optimization projects like Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counters and long-lived particle reconstruction techniques downstream of the LHCb magnet.