Franz Muheim

Prof Muheim's research interest is in experimental particle physics. He is an expert on heavy flavour physics and he investigates the difference between matter and antimatter by measuring CP violation in beauty and charmed mesons. He is a member of the LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where he was PI of the eleven participating UK Institutes with ~150 collaborators. With LHCb data he is currently studying CP violating asymmetries and rare decays of Bs mesons to search for new physics in quantum loop transitions beyond the standard model of particle physics. Prof Muheim has measured the CKM matrix element Vub describing the transition between u and b quarks with the BaBar and CLEO experiment. Prof Muheim is an expert on instrumentation and with his team at Edinburgh has played a leading role in the construction of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors (RICH) for the LHCb experiment, in particular in the R&D, assembly and commissioning of the RICH photon detectors. He is interested in building new detectors to upgrade the LHC experiments in the high luminosity phase and for future accelerators.

[2026] Comprehensive Analysis of the B0→K*0μ+μ- Decay [2026] Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξ+ with the LHCb Run 3 Detector [2026] Improved branching-fraction measurements of B(s)0→KS0h+h′− decays and first observation of Bs0→KS0K+K− [2026] First Measurement of Time-Dependent Violation in the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay 0→0+− [2026] Measurement of the Top-Quark Production Cross Section and Charge Asymmetry at LHCb