# Brad Andrew Brown

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Summer Student Lecture Programme General
- Speaker: Brad Andrew Brown
- Year: 2025
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3023155)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Hello! My name is Brad Brown and I'm a senior undergraduate physics student at the University of Texas at Arlington. This summer, I worked with the LHCb Simulation team on restoring and modernizing the Machine-Induced Background (MIB) generator — a simulation tool originally developed during Run 1 of the LHC but unused since. MIB arises from beam losses around the accelerator and can impact detector performance. New studies are needed to evaluate MIB conditions for High-Luminosity LHC, Heavy Ion Collisions, and even for future colliders like the FCC. My project involved understanding the relevant accelerator physics, reviving the legacy tool, and porting it into the modern Gauss-on-Gaussino framework. With the generator now operational again, LHCb is equipped to carry out these new studies..

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## Lectures

1. [Brad Andrew Brown](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3023155/4c973f3a3da7), 14 min (CERN's player)