We are a large research group within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in the UK, studying collisions produced by particle accelerators to determine the ultimate structure of matter and the forces of nature.

Our main current activities are all based at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. We have a central involvement in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, which is searching for the Higgs boson and other new physics at the energy frontier. We are investigating the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe by studying CP violation at the LHCb experiment. Our NA62 group is studying ultra-rare decays of strange particles to search for new physics such as lepton flavour violation. Our colleagues from the nuclear physics group are involved in related research with the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Our research is supported primarily by the Science and Technology Facilities Council with additional current grants from the Royal Society and the European Research Council .