Gordon Watts (he/him/his)

I am most interested in using collider experiments to explore beyond the Standard Model theories driven by questions like what is dark matter and what caused the matter-anti-matter imbalance in the universe. In particular, those theories that result in Long-Lived Particle final states. I also have a long-standing passion for exploring and improving how computing is used in the field of particle physics and physics in general.

I spend most of my research time active in two large projects: the ATLAS experiment at CERN and IRIS-HEP, an NSF funding Software Institute exploring how to get ready for Run 4 and beyond of the High Luminosity LHC. I am also involved with the MATHUSLA experiment.