G. N. Taylor

Research summary

Contributions span structure-function measurements at CERN, B-physics CP-violation measurements at Belle, a randomized surgical trial, and an early fluid-mechanics paper. Experimental results at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron on the structure-function ratio F_2^n/F_2^p in the kinematic range 0.004 < x < 0.8 and 0.4 < Q^2 < 190 GeV^2, combined with F_2^d from published data, were used to derive F_2^p(x) - F_2^n(x); the resulting Gottfried sum was 0.240 +/- 0.016, below the quark-parton-model expectation of 1/3 [1]. At Belle, time-dependent CP violation in B0 -> J/psi pi0 decays was studied with a 140 fb^-1 sample at the Upsilon(4S) using neutral-B flavour tagging; the CP-violating parameters were measured at S_J/psi pi0 = -0.72 -/+ 0.42 (stat) -/+ 0.09 (syst) and A_J/psi pi0 = -0.01 -/+ 0.29 (stat) -/+ 0.03 (syst) [3]. The CSAW trial was a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, three-group randomized surgical study at 32 UK hospitals involving 51 surgeons, designed to assess whether arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (with intact rotator-cuff tendons and prior non-operative management) provides benefit over placebo surgery and over non-operative care, and to investigate the mechanism for surgical decompression [2]. A 1961 paper on the formation of thin flat sheets of water described how a thin plane fluid sheet that converges towards a point transforms into a sheet diverging in a perpendicular plane, with the conditions on convergence angle and ellipticity that make the diverging sheet match the converging one, supported by an apparatus that measured the stream shape and pressure distribution [4].

Recent publications

1. A measurement of the spin asymmetry and determination of the structure function g1 in deep inelastic muon-proton scattering1988 · Physics Letters B · 1609 citationsDOI
2. An investigation of the spin structure of the proton in deep inelastic scattering of polarised muons on polarised protons1989 · Nuclear Physics B · 1090 citationsDOI
3. Gottfried sum from the ratioF2n/F2p1991 · Physical Review Letters · 524 citationsDOI
4. Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial2017 · The Lancet · 458 citationsDOI
5. Study of time-dependent CP violation in B0 → J/ψπ0 decays2004 · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 407 citationsDOI
6. Proton and deuteron F2 structure functions in deep inelastic muon scattering1992 · Physics Letters B · 254 citationsDOI
7. Measurement of the ratios of deep inelastic muon-nucleus cross sections on various nuclei compared to deuterium1988 · Physics Letters B · 244 citationsDOI
8. A re-evaluation of the nuclear structure function ratios for D, He, 6Li, C and Ca1995 · Nuclear Physics B · 214 citationsDOI
9. Formation of thin flat sheets of water1961 · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 206 citationsDOI
10. Status of the Belle silicon vertex detector2005 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 168 citationsDOI

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