Experimental Particle Physics Rolling Grant 2006-2011
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This research is aimed at understanding the properties of the basic building blocks of the Universe (the elementary particles) and the nature of the fundamental forces which govern the interactions of these particles. In so doing, deep insights will be gained about the origin and evolution of the Universe, especially in the first moments after the Big Bang. The Lancaster research programme covers all the main types of accelerator facilities and is based on hadron collider physics with the Tevatron (Fermilab) and LHC (CERN) machines, the observation of long baseline neutrino oscillations in Japan and, in the longer term future, high energy electron-positron collisions at the International Linear Collider (ILC). All of this work will be underpinned by Lancaster's expertise in characterising and understanding the properties of heavily irradiated silicon particle detectors, in operating high performance computing facilities on the Grid and in writing offline event reconstruction software. The hadron collider physics is expected to reveal detailed properties of B hadrons (containing heavy b-quarks) including the mixing of neutral B mesons containing strange quarks, and CP violation which is related to the existence of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. Searches for new physics at the LHC will focus on understanding the origin of mass (and the role of the Higgs boson), the existence of new symmetries of nature (e.g. supersymmetry) and extra spatial dimensions. The neutrino oscillations programme is expected to provide important information about the masses of and the amount of mixing amongst the three known species of neutrinos. If the appearance of electron neutrinos can be observed in a muon neutrino beam then it may be possible, in a further phase of the research, to establish the existence of CP violation in the neutrino sector of the Standard Model. This could have wide reaching implications for the understanding of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. The electron-positron collider (the ILC) will enable a continuation of some of the research performed at the LHC but with a facility of greater precision and versatility. It could be especially crucial for the elucidation of the properties of the Higgs boson and supersymmetry if they exist as well as being an abundant source of top quraks.
Organisations
Publications
Abazov VM
(2010)
Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2008)
Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2008)
Search for large extra dimensions via single photon plus missing energy final states at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2010)
Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2008)
Search for Randall-Sundrum gravitons with 1 fb(-1) of data from pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Measurement of dijet angular distributions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV and searches for quark compositeness and extra spatial dimensions.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson in tau final states.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2007)
Properties of L=1 B(1) and B(2)* mesons.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Search for charged higgs bosons decaying into top and bottom quarks in pp[over ] collisions.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2012)
Evidence for spin correlation in t ¯t production.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson in ZH?l(+)l(-)bb production with the D0 detector in 9.7 fb(-1) of pp collisions at vs = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2008)
Search for anomalous Wtb couplings in single top quark production.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Evidence for the decay Bs0-->Ds(*)Ds(*) and a measurement of DeltaGammasCP/Gammas.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2008)
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in pp over collisions with the D0 detector.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Observation of single top-quark production.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Search for resonant diphoton production with the D0 detector.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson in associated WH production in 9.7 fb(-1) of pp collisions with the D0 detector.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2009)
Search for associated W and Higgs Boson production in pp[over ] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2011)
Search for single vectorlike quarks in pp ¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2008)
Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks decaying into taub.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2011)
W? production and limits on anomalous WW? couplings in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2014)
Measurement of associated production of z bosons with charm quark jets in pp collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abdallah J
(2013)
Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abe K
(2011)
Indication of electron neutrino appearance from an accelerator-produced off-axis muon neutrino beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2014)
Observation of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2012)
Measurements of the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Precise measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter ?23 from muon neutrino disappearance in an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of the inclusive ? µ charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2011)
The T2K experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abe K
(2014)
Recent Results from the T2K Experiment
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the inclusive ? µ charged current cross section on iron and hydrocarbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Publisher's Note: T2K neutrino flux prediction [Phys. Rev. D 87 , 012001 (2013)]
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
T2K neutrino flux prediction
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2012)
First muon-neutrino disappearance study with an off-axis beam
in Physical Review D
Abreu P.
(2011)
Determination of |Vcb?from the semileptonic decay B0 ? D*-l+?
in European Physical Journal C
Adey D
(2014)
Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility
in Physical Review D
Allan D
(2013)
The electromagnetic calorimeter for the T2K near detector ND280
in Journal of Instrumentation
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] production cross section in the tau + jets channel using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Muon reconstruction efficiency and momentum resolution of the ATLAS experiment in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV in 2010.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of the inclusive jet cross-section in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] and comparison to the inclusive jet cross-section at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of kT splitting scales in W?l? events at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a [Formula: see text] boson, [Formula: see text]-jets and missing transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] TeV [Formula: see text] collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurements of jet vetoes and azimuthal decorrelations in dijet events produced in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Multi-channel search for squarks and gluinos in [Formula: see text]pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
The differential production cross section of the [Formula: see text](1020) meson in [Formula: see text] = 7 TeV [Formula: see text] collisions measured with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Jet energy resolution in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] recorded in 2010 with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields