Jasper Kirkby
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Jasper Kirkby is a British experimental particle physicist currently with CERN. He originated the idea for the Tau-Charm Factory, an accelerator now under construction as BEPC II in Beijing. He has led several large particle accelerator experiments at SPEAR; the Paul Scherrer Institute; and most recently, the CLOUD experiment at CERN [1] [2]
The CLOUD experiment is investigating possible physical mechanisms for solar/cosmic ray forcing - a theory whereby cloud nucleation is affected by cosmic rays and the cosmic rays are affected by solar activity.[1]
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- ^ a b Cosmic Rays and Climate Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- ^ Head in a CLOUD, May 12, 2011. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/multimedia/45950
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