Particle Physics Rolling Grant 2009
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
Particle physics attempts to understand the Universe and its evolution in terms of the interplay of a small number of fundamental forces and particles. The last thirty years has seen the development of a robust and extremely successful theoretical framework, known as the Standard Model, in which all available data can be explained. However, this model is demonstrably incomplete and has many parameters that must be inserted by hand. Our proposed progamme will significantly advance our understanding of whatever theory must be constructed to replace the Standard Model. Our collaboration in the SNO experiment has been a major contributor to our understanding of the phenomenon of neutrino mass, originally outside the Standard Model. As SNO draws to an end, we will continue our neutrino investigations with a leading role in the MINOS experiment and the next generation experiment based in Japan, T2K. We plan to measure other fundamental properties of the neutrino, such as whether or not it is its own antiparticle - a Majorana or a Dirac neutrino - by utilising our unique experience with the SNO experiment and its underground laboratory. The CDF experiment is coming to the end of its life as LHC takes over the energy frontier, but we intend to continue our important contributions to the remaining running and in the exploitation of the full data sample to produce papers. The ZEUS experiment has now completed data taking; we are determined to play a major part in bringing these classic results on the structure of the proton, and the strong interaction, to publication. These results are likely to remain in the text-books for many years. After the disappointment of the failure of the LHC in 2008, repairs are well under way and the LHC experiments will come on line during the period of this Rolling Grant. We will ensure that Oxford plays a major role in the extraction of physics results from ATLAS and LHCb, which have the potential to completely revolutionise our understanding of particle physics. We are committed to providing the computing resources and analysis tools necessary for the extraction of these results, and our work in ensuring that Grid concepts and technology are available to the wider academic and business community will continue. The CRESST-II and cryo-EDM experiments will use technologies in which Oxford has a world lead to explore some of the most important questions in particle physics and cosmology; in particular the nature off the material that appears to make up most of the Universe. The spokesman of a major new initiative in this area, EURECA, is from Oxford, so that we will continue our leading role in the search for Dark Matter. The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science has major programmes in the accelerators of the future, including Linear Colliders and the Neutrino Factory. The JAI has established itself as a world-class institute in accelerator physics under the leadership of Professor Peach; we are starting the search for a world-class accelerator scientist to be his successor. We are also providing leaders in international bodies charged with the development of new accelerators. We will continue to develop and enhance our capabilities in mechanical and electronics design so that Oxford will retain the ability to construct the most sophisticated apparatus of whatever size is required for the physics objectives. We are determined to play a leading role in world particle physics in the future, as we have in the past.
Organisations
Publications
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of the Lambdab0 lifetime in Lambdab0 --> Lambdac+pi- decays in pp collisions at square root of s = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Search for new physics in trilepton events and limits on the associated chargino-neutralino production at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the rare radiative decay W ? p ? in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for high-mass resonances decaying into Z Z in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for high mass resonances decaying to muon pairs in vs=1.96 TeV pp collisions.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for New T' particles in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse energy in p p collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for new color-octet vector particle decaying to t t ¯ in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2014)
First search for exotic Z Boson decays into photons and neutral pions in hadron collisions.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark mass in the all-hadronic mode at CDF
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Top-quark mass measurement using events with missing transverse energy and jets at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Observation of exclusive ?? production in pp¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Production of ? 0 , ? ¯ 0 , ? ± , and O ± hyperons in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Combined search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair using the full CDF data set.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Novel inclusive search for the Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Evidence for the charmless annihilation decay mode B(s)(0)?p(+)p(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Measurement of B(t?Wb)/B(t?Wq) in top-quark-pair decays using dilepton events and the full CDF Run II data set.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Updated search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decay D 0 ? µ + µ - in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Top quark mass measurement in the lepton + jets channel using a matrix element method and in situ jet energy calibration.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with two oppositely charged leptons using the full CDF data set.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurements of the properties of ? c ( 2595 ) , ? c ( 2625 ) , S c ( 2455 ) , and S c ( 2520 ) baryons
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the dilepton decay channel in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking in diphoton events with missing transverse energy at CDF II.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for new physics in high pT like-sign dilepton events at CDF II.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2009)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV using the CDF detector
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Observation of the Baryonic Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decay ? b 0 ? ? µ + µ -
in Physical Review Letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Top quark mass measurement using the template method at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for new phenomena in events with two Z bosons and missing transverse momentum in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Observation of single top quark production and measurement of | V t b | with CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaron F
(2012)
Combined inclusive diffractive cross sections measured with forward proton spectrometers in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaron F
(2010)
Combined measurement and QCD analysis of the inclusive e ± p scattering cross sections at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaron F
(2010)
Events with an isolated lepton and missing transverse momentum and measurement of W production at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abat E
(2010)
Combined performance studies for electrons at the 2004 ATLAS combined test-beam
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abat E
(2011)
A layer correlation technique for pion energy calibration at the 2004 ATLAS Combined Beam Test
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abat E
(2011)
Photon reconstruction in the ATLAS Inner Detector and Liquid Argon Barrel Calorimeter at the 2004 Combined Test Beam
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abdallah J
(2011)
A study of the b-quark fragmentation function with the DELPHI detector at LEP I and an averaged distribution obtained at the Z Pole
in The European Physical Journal C
Abdallah J
(2011)
Search for single top quark production via contact interactions at LEP2
in The European Physical Journal C
Abdallah J
(2010)
Study of the dependence of direct soft photon production on the jet characteristics in hadronic Z 0 decays
in The European Physical Journal C
Abdallah J
(2010)
Measurements of CP-conserving trilinear gauge boson couplings WWV (V=?,Z) in e+e- collisions at LEP2
in The European Physical Journal C
Abdesselam A
(2011)
Boosted objects: a probe of beyond the standard model physics
in The European Physical Journal C
Abe K
(2011)
Indication of electron neutrino appearance from an accelerator-produced off-axis muon neutrino beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2011)
The T2K experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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
(2014)
Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector
in Physical Review D
Abramowicz H
(2011)
Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA using decays into electrons
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Angular correlations in three-jet events in e p collisions at HERA
in Physical Review D
Abramowicz H
(2014)
Deep inelastic cross-section measurements at large y with the ZEUS detector at HERA
in Physical Review D
Abramowicz H
(2010)
Measurement of D + and ? c + production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abramowicz H
(2013)
Production of Z 0 bosons in elastic and quasi-elastic ep collisions at HERA
in Physics Letters B
Description | Media interviews and articles |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Members of staff supported on this grant give interviews regularly to radio, newspapers and magazine. There are too many examples to list separately, but include BBC Radios 3 and 4, Irish Radio, Radio New Zealand, Research Fortnight, Nature, New Scientist, etc. General impact of public and opinion formers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Particle Physics Masterclass |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Teachers bring groups of pupils to a concentrated 1-day event in which they hear the latest news from particle physics, get involved with hands-on activities and interact with academic staff. Interacts with students and teachers - the classes are always full, we run 2 separate days and each year we reach more than 100 pupils and teachers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 |
Description | Schools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Visits by researchers to schools to give talks about LHC, neutrinos and other areas of particle physics Around 100 schools visited by various members of staff since 2006. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Teachers Open Day in Accelerators and Particle Physics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Teachers spent the day in Oxford having a refresher course on the latest research results in accelerator science and particle physics. Interaction with many physics teachers in schools. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |