Experimental Particle Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Our research is focused on experimental measurements and physics analysis of data taken at the CERN, DESY and SLAC laboratories. We contribute to the design, construction and testing of detector components, preparation of software and physics analysis, monitoring and operation of detectors during data-taking and physics analysis of the recorded data. We are making significant contributions to the ATLAS and ALICE experiments which are being prepared for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. During the period of the grant these two experiments will make the transition into physics data collection and analysis, and we will be very strongly involved with that. In addition, we are working on the data-taking and analysis of the physics data from the BaBar and H1 experiments, and research and development for both the accelerator and detector at the international linear collider.
Organisations
Publications
Aaij R
(2013)
Exclusive J /? and ?(2 S ) production in pp collisions at $\protect \sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
CMS And LHCb Collaborations
(2015)
Observation of the rare B(s)(0) ?µ+µ- decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data.
in Nature
Goudzovski E
(2015)
Development of the kaon tagging system for the NA62 experiment at CERN
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Francis K
(2014)
Performance of the first prototype of the CALICE scintillator strip electromagnetic calorimeter
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aad G
(2013)
Dynamics of isolated-photon plus jet production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
Prompt charm production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B ( B 0 ? K ? 0 ? ) / B ( B s 0 ? ? ? ) and the direct CP asymmetry in B 0 ? K ? 0 ?
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
Observations of B s 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) ? and B ( s ) 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) p + p - decays
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
Evidence for the decay B 0 ? J / ? ? and measurement of the relative branching fractions of B s 0 meson decays to J / ? ? and J / ? ? '
in Nuclear Physics B