P. Dervan

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P. Dervan is a physicist specializing in radiation-hardness testing and detector infrastructure for high-energy physics, with a focus on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Their major contributions center on developing and upgrading irradiation facilities to simulate the extreme radiation environments expected during the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) era. Dervan’s work on the Birmingham Irradiation Facility, which can achieve HL-LHC fluences of 10¹⁵ 1 MeV neutron equivalent per cm² in just 80 seconds, enables rapid evaluation of detector components and mechanical structures under realistic conditions. This capability is critical for validating technologies that must survive radiation doses ten times higher than current LHC levels. Dervan also pioneered a pre-configured XY-axis Cartesian robot system for a new ATLAS scanning facility, automating the precise irradiation of mechanical structures for the LHC upgrade programme. With key papers accumulating citations in the single digits—reflecting their specialized, applied nature—Dervan’s impact is measured not by raw counts but by enabling the next generation of LHC detectors. Their work ensures that ATLAS can withstand the punishing radiation of the HL-LHC, directly supporting the search for new physics at the energy frontier.