LHCb Upgrades PROJECT COORDINATION
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Department Name: UNLISTED
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| Christopher Parkes (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the branching fractions of the decays B s 0 ? D ¯ 0 K - p + and B 0 ? D ¯ 0 K + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
First observation of CP violation in the decays of B(s)0 mesons.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for D ( s ) + ? p + µ + µ - and D ( s ) + ? p - µ + µ + decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Prompt charm production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of $B^{0}_{s}$ - $\overline{B}{}^{0}_{s}$ mixing and measurement of mixing frequencies using semileptonic B decays
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for the decay B s 0 ? D * ± p ±
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of C P violation and the B s 0 meson decay width difference with B s 0 ? J / ? K + K - and B s 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the B s 0 ? J/?K S 0 K ± p ± decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of associated production of a Z boson with a D meson in the forward region
in Journal of High Energy Physics
LHCb Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of charged particle multiplicities and densities in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text]TeV in the forward region.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of Beauty Hadron Decays into Pairs of Charm Hadrons
in Physical Review Letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Studies of beauty baryon decays to D 0 p h - and ? c + h - final states
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of CP violation in the phase space of B± ? K+ K- p± and B± ? p+ p- p± decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Evidence for the decay $ \mathrm{B}_{\mathrm{c}}^{+}\to { {\mathrm{J}} \left/ { {\uppsi\;3{\uppi^{+}}2{\uppi^{-}}}} \right.} $
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the resonant and C P components in B ¯ 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij, Roel And Others
(2014)
Observation of photon polarization in the $b \to s\gamma$ transition
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the ? b 0 ? J/? pp - decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
LHCb Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] meson lifetime using [Formula: see text] decays.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of CP asymmetries in the decays B 0 ? K *0 µ + µ - and B + ? K + µ + µ -
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for the decay D 0 ? p + p - µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Effective lifetime measurements in the B s 0 ? K + K - , B 0 ? K + p - and B s 0 ? p + K - decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the ? b (3P) mass and of the relative rate of ? b1(1P) and ? b2(1P) production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Updated measurements of exclusive J /? and ?(2S) production cross-sections in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation in the decay D + ? p - p + p +
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Angular analysis of charged and neutral B ? Kµ + µ - decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in B ± ? ? K ± and search for B ± ? ? p ± decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of J/? production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at $ \sqrt{ {{s_{NN }}}} $ = 5 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of B(s)(0) ? J/? f1(1285) decays and measurement of the f1(1285) mixing angle.
in Physical review letters
Aaij, Roel And Others
(2014)
Precision measurement of the ratio of the $\Lambda^0_b$ to $\overline{B}^0$ lifetimes
Aaij R
(2014)
A study of CP violation in B±?DK± and B±?Dp± decays with D ? K S 0 K ± p ± final states
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of Z production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb
in Journal of High Energy Physics
LHCb Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of [Formula: see text] polarisation in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] = 7 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the flavour-specific CP-violating asymmetry a sl s in B s 0 decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Dalitz plot analysis of B s 0 ? D ¯ 0 K - p + decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of the kinematic dependences of ? b 0 production in pp collisions and a measurement of the ? b 0 ? ? c + p - branching fraction
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of resonant and C P components in B ¯ s 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the ? b - and O b - baryon lifetimes
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurements of the B +, B 0, $ B_s^0 $ meson and $ \Lambda_b^0 $ baryon lifetimes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of polarization amplitudes and CP asymmetries in B 0 ? ?K *(892)0
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of ? $$ \varUpsilon $$ production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{NN}} $$ = 5 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij, Roel And Others
(2014)
Search for Majorana neutrinos in $B^- \to \pi^+\mu^-\mu^-$ decays
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurements of indirect CP asymmetries in D0 ? K- K+ and D0 ? p- p+ decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of $${\Upsilon } $$ ? production in $${ {\mathrm {p}}} { {\mathrm {p}}} $$ p p collisions at $${\sqrt{s}} =2.76{\mathrm {\,TeV}} $$ s = 2.76 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2014)
Test of lepton universality using b+ ? K+l+l- decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the ratio of the ? b 0 to B ¯ 0 lifetimes
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of forward Z + jet production in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of CP violation and constraints on the CKM angle ? in B ± ? D K ± with D ? K S 0 p + p - decays
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of $$\upchi _{ {\mathrm {b}}}$$ ? b meson production in $$\mathrm {p} $$ p $$\mathrm {p} $$ p collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7 and $$8{\mathrm {\,TeV}} $$ 8 TeV and observation of the decay $$\upchi _{ {\mathrm {b}}}\mathrm {(3P)} \rightarrow \Upsilon \mathrm {(3S)} {\upgamma } $$ ? b ( 3 P ) ? ? ( 3 S ) ?
in The European Physical Journal C
| Description | The LHCb Upgrade will be the next generation detector of the LHCb collaboration. Please see the entry for the LHCb collaboration for more details. |
| Exploitation Route | Please see Narrative Impact section |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Healthcare Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | http://www.lhcb.ac.uk/LHCb-UK/Welcome.html |
| Description | LHCb upgrade |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment (LHCb) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The UK is a driving force in the Upgrade. UK groups pioneered the initial physics studies and supplied the first Upgrade Coordinator. UK physicists prepared the Physics chapter of the LoI and several of the sub-detector sections, and have had a similarly prominent role in the writing of the FTDR. A UK physicist is Coordinator for the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) upgrade, UK physicists are central to the Vertex Locator (VELO) upgrade activities, and the UK is also represented on the five-person "Upgrade Steering Group". The UK LHCb institutes are therefore ideally positioned to lead the upgrade of the experiment consolidating the dominant role they have achieved on the current detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The LHCb collaboration comprises 60 institutes worldwide, and has 624 signing authors. All research and design work is performed in collaboration. |
| Impact | Physics data taking is expected to start in 2018 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Title | Timepix |
| Description | The Timepix bump-bonded pixel readout chip, used for the upgraded VELO, is also utilized by the UK PImMS project. This involves the development of fast, pixelated sensors for imaging of low-energy ions coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometers, enabling high-precision imaging for molecular microscopy and atom-probe tomography. Patents for this technology were granted in 2008, 2010 and 2011. |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2008 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | see above |
| Title | RICH upgrade |
| Description | Several photon-detector technologies have been innovated by the RICH project. We are currently working with two manufacturers: Photonis/DEP and Hamamatsu to improve their hybrid-photon detectors (HPDs) and MaPMT tubes, respectively. We are also working with Photek/UK to produce micro-channel plate (MCP) photon detectors for LHCb/TORCH applications, to develop customized active area and pixel granularity MCPs which can survive for several years in high radiation environments. All these photon devices are very promising for use in medical imaging and positron emission tomography (PET). UV/Visible/IR detectors |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Impact | see above |
| Title | VELO upgrade |
| Description | For the VELO, LHCb has pioneered n+p sensors, now the baseline for ATLAS and CMS upgrades. The sensors have found widespread use in spin-off applications, they have stimulated industry (Stevenage circuits), and have been used at an NHS hadron therapy centre. Prototype LHCb Upgrade pixel detectors have been tested at the Diamond synchrotron and have inspired new detector designs they are developing for their beamlines. We will continue to work with our industrial partners to produce state-of-the art sensor technologies for the Upgrade and other impact applications. Radiation hard detectors |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | see above |
| Description | Outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | LHCb-UK is fully committed to an active programme of outreach and dissemination. In the media, we have stimulated public dialogue through film, radio and press. LHCb members have hosted short films for CERN, shortlisted by film festivals in 2011 and 2012, guested on LHC documentaries (BBC4, Discovery Channel, Horizon, Bang Goes the Theory and Youtube: The matter with Antimatter). Numerous contributions in the broadcast media have been made by LHCb-UK members on BBC News 24, BBC local radio stations, World Service News-hour, Radios 4 and 5 and international media (various stations). Print articles include many national newspapers and online (BBC News Online). VELO modules have been exhibited at the Royal Society Summer exhibition, at Microcosm (CERN), and will form part of the Science Museum LHC touring exhibition. LHCb physicists host VIP tours; examples of visitors to LHCb being the Science Minister, the Science Select Committee and several university vice-chancellors. We also regularly conduct LHCb public visits, and are fully engaged in the UK Masterclass programmes. One of the LHCb-UK groups hosts the first Science Museum Fellow of Modern Science who has played a primary role in the Collider exhibition at the London Science Museum and Manchester Museum Of Science and Industry (MOSI) see above. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |
| URL | http://www.lhcb.ac.uk/LHCb-UK/Welcome.html |