2012 Consolidated Grant Supplement
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Support for consumables and travel on 2012 CG
Planned Impact
Our innovations are finding applications of benefit to UK plc and the public. Highlights include:
1. Our joint projects with e2v on the production of sensor technologies has brought this UK company to the point it can bid for contracts against Hamamatsu Photonics
2. Our relationship with Micron Semiconductor Ltd has enabled the UK to retain its leadership in the production of detectors for a wide variety of applications for aerospace and reactor monitoring.
3. Working with electronics companies we have enabled them to bid for major EU contracts.
a. Stevenage Circuits, with whom we developed the LHCb VELO readout hybrids, have extended these ultra reliable processes for the ATLAS tracker upgrade.
b. Hawk Electronics who worked with us on the VELO, won an industry award, and is now bidding for large EU contracts (see http://www.hawkelectronics.co.uk/)
4. We are adapting T2K technology towards a robust, cost effective antineutrino detector for passive reactor monitoring. This IAEA promoted activity addresses non-proliferation security in an environment of Global Uncertainty.
5. Our LHCb VELO detectors have been qualified and are being installed as a permanent beam monitor at Clatterbridge Oncology Unit.
6. Collaborating in an EU programme we are developing a modular, mobile neutron detection system for locating fissile materials e.g. at ports of entry, an important contribution to Homeland Security.
7. Our new foray into ground based detection of dark energy using atom interferometers has attracted AWE interest and support towards further applications.
8. In 2003 we founded the AiMes Institute for exploitation of Grid technologies which had a £20M footprint and seed-corn funding from NWDA and the EU. As well as seeding e-business related companies and winning entrepreneur awards, the Institute itself eventually became a commercial, award winning company http://www.aimesgridservices.com/.
We are extremely fortunate to have as a member of staff Dr. Tara Shears wo is one of the most popular communicators of particle physics in the country. She is regularly interviewed in the national press and appears frequently on local and national radio and television. Tara is part of the public face of CERN and appears in short popular science films, one of which was shortlisted in the best popular science section of the national network NHK (Japan, 2011). She is highly in demand as an expert commentator on physics with a notable presence and following on YouTube and Twitter. Other members of our staff have appeared in ad-hoc interviews round the world including Greek and Russian Television and national press.
We work closely with the University's Corporate Communications Department to ensure that the particle physics message is communicated round the world. For example at the most recent Higgs announcement Liverpool staff members had substantial coverage in the press, including on the front page of Financial Times, attracting congratulatory comments from Hong Kong financiers, and on Radio 4 and Television.
The group organized a short workshop with our Corporate Communications and the Interactions Collaboration at Liverpool . We have a policy of ensuring that opinion makers, industrialists and MPs are invited to CERN and are able to discuss with students, technical staff and researchers. We have participated in the House of Commons exchange scheme where one of our staff members spends a week at Westminster and, in return, an MP spends time in our Laboratory.
We have an active programme with Schools, from Masterclass events and talks, inviting local schools to CERN and in the last 4 years creating a CERN based Summer School for the brightest pre-university students. We also run a 4 week Nuffield course at Liverpool for school children considering a career in Science. Phil Allport has played a major role in IoP activities and is well known on Merseyside acting as an official Ambassador for the region.
1. Our joint projects with e2v on the production of sensor technologies has brought this UK company to the point it can bid for contracts against Hamamatsu Photonics
2. Our relationship with Micron Semiconductor Ltd has enabled the UK to retain its leadership in the production of detectors for a wide variety of applications for aerospace and reactor monitoring.
3. Working with electronics companies we have enabled them to bid for major EU contracts.
a. Stevenage Circuits, with whom we developed the LHCb VELO readout hybrids, have extended these ultra reliable processes for the ATLAS tracker upgrade.
b. Hawk Electronics who worked with us on the VELO, won an industry award, and is now bidding for large EU contracts (see http://www.hawkelectronics.co.uk/)
4. We are adapting T2K technology towards a robust, cost effective antineutrino detector for passive reactor monitoring. This IAEA promoted activity addresses non-proliferation security in an environment of Global Uncertainty.
5. Our LHCb VELO detectors have been qualified and are being installed as a permanent beam monitor at Clatterbridge Oncology Unit.
6. Collaborating in an EU programme we are developing a modular, mobile neutron detection system for locating fissile materials e.g. at ports of entry, an important contribution to Homeland Security.
7. Our new foray into ground based detection of dark energy using atom interferometers has attracted AWE interest and support towards further applications.
8. In 2003 we founded the AiMes Institute for exploitation of Grid technologies which had a £20M footprint and seed-corn funding from NWDA and the EU. As well as seeding e-business related companies and winning entrepreneur awards, the Institute itself eventually became a commercial, award winning company http://www.aimesgridservices.com/.
We are extremely fortunate to have as a member of staff Dr. Tara Shears wo is one of the most popular communicators of particle physics in the country. She is regularly interviewed in the national press and appears frequently on local and national radio and television. Tara is part of the public face of CERN and appears in short popular science films, one of which was shortlisted in the best popular science section of the national network NHK (Japan, 2011). She is highly in demand as an expert commentator on physics with a notable presence and following on YouTube and Twitter. Other members of our staff have appeared in ad-hoc interviews round the world including Greek and Russian Television and national press.
We work closely with the University's Corporate Communications Department to ensure that the particle physics message is communicated round the world. For example at the most recent Higgs announcement Liverpool staff members had substantial coverage in the press, including on the front page of Financial Times, attracting congratulatory comments from Hong Kong financiers, and on Radio 4 and Television.
The group organized a short workshop with our Corporate Communications and the Interactions Collaboration at Liverpool . We have a policy of ensuring that opinion makers, industrialists and MPs are invited to CERN and are able to discuss with students, technical staff and researchers. We have participated in the House of Commons exchange scheme where one of our staff members spends a week at Westminster and, in return, an MP spends time in our Laboratory.
We have an active programme with Schools, from Masterclass events and talks, inviting local schools to CERN and in the last 4 years creating a CERN based Summer School for the brightest pre-university students. We also run a 4 week Nuffield course at Liverpool for school children considering a career in Science. Phil Allport has played a major role in IoP activities and is well known on Merseyside acting as an official Ambassador for the region.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Themistocles Bowcock (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a Higgs boson in the diphoton final state using the full CDF data set from p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV in dilepton final states with ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
LHCb Collaboration
(2012)
Measurement of relative branching fractions of B decays to ?(2S) and J/? mesons.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2012)
Observation of B0?D¯(0)K(+)K(-) and evidence for B(s)(0)?D¯(0)K(+)K(-).
in Physical review letters
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
A search for [Formula: see text] resonances with the ATLAS detector in 2.05 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2012)
Observation of spin correlation in tt¯ events from pp collisions at vs=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Abelleira Fernandez J
(2012)
A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN Report on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Evidence for the charmless annihilation decay mode B(s)(0)?p(+)p(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decay B(c)+ ? J/?p(+) p- p+.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of charged particle multiplicities in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =7~\mbox{TeV}$ in the forward region
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Search for single-top production in ep collisions at HERA
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a heavy vector boson decaying to two gluons in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurements of B(c)+ production and mass with the B(c)+ ? J/?p+ decay.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurements of the angular distributions in the decays B?K(*)µ(+)µ(-) at CDF.
in Physical review letters
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark mass with the template method in the [Formula: see text] channel using ATLAS data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the WW cross section in s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous gauge couplings
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a heavy particle decaying to a top quark and a light quark in pp ¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaron F
(2012)
Measurement of beauty and charm photoproduction using semi-muonic decays in dijet events at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for pair production of a heavy up-type quark decaying to a W boson and a b quark in the lepton + jets channel with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Transverse momentum cross section of e + e - pairs in the Z -boson region from p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W ± boson with 7.5 fb - 1 integrated luminosity at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for resonant top quark plus jet production in t t ¯ + jets events with the ATLAS detector in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with no charged leptons and large missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set.
in Physical review letters
Aad G.
(2012)
Underlying event characteristics and their dependence on jet size of charged-particle jet events in pp collisions at v(s)=7TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Aad G
(2012)
Search for displaced vertices arising from decays of new heavy particles in 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for neutral Higgs bosons in events with multiple bottom quarks at the Tevatron
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Observation of CP violation in B ± ? D K ± decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Evidence for CP violation in time-integrated D0?h(-)h(+) decay rates.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of the masses and widths of the bottom baryons S b ± and S b * ±
in Physical Review D
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Measurement of the t dependence in exclusive photoproduction of ? ( 1 S ) mesons at HERA
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7~\mbox{TeV}$ with ATLAS
in The European Physical Journal C
Beringer J
(2012)
Review of Particle Physics
in Physical Review D
Aad G.
(2012)
Further search for supersymmetry at vs=7TeV in final states with jets, missing transverse momentum, and isolated leptons with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of ZZ production in leptonic final states at sqrt[s] of 1.96 TeV at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaron F
(2012)
Measurement of beauty photoproduction near threshold using di-electron events with the H1 detector at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for strong gravity signatures in same-sign dimuon final states using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Analysis of the resonant components in B ¯ s 0 ? J / ? p + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider
in Physical Review D
Collaboration T
(2012)
A study of the material in the ATLAS inner detector using secondary hadronic interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaji R
(2012)
Measurement of b hadron production fractions in 7 TeV p p collisions
in Physical Review D
| Description | See 2012-2016 Consolidated Grant ST/K001418/1 |
| Exploitation Route | Joint funding of PhD Students |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Electronics Energy Environment Security and Diplomacy |
| Description | See ST/K-1418/1 Cultural outputs include the Museum exhibits and the London Science Museum ("Collider"and the "World a Particle" at the Victoria Gallery and Museum Liverpool |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic |
| Description | Collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) |
| Organisation | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the partnership |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have started a partnership in 2 main areas. First with the MicroSystems Division (CMM). Previous staff member Prof. G. Casse became director in 2016. We have expanded this to deep learning with their IT departmetmn |
| Impact | Award of STFC CDT, collabrateion with Microsoft. This multi-disiplinary and impacts health. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Pixel Tiles |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | Physics and Astronomy Department |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Liverpool helped model, design, and test pixel sensors from a number of manufactureres including Micron Semiconductors. Our focus was on producting radiation hard sensors. The collaboration produced the first prototypes for two of the major CERN detectorss (LHCb and ATLAS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Manchester and Glagow contributed variants of the designs and different technologies. These were use by Glasgow with application to the ATLAS detectors at CERN and with Manchester to the LHCb detector at CERN. |
| Impact | The UK was able to capture the design and fabrication of sensors and modules for the LHCb detectors uipgrade at CERN and be the major lead int he design and construction of the pixel endcap for ATLAS |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Pixel Tiles |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Liverpool helped model, design, and test pixel sensors from a number of manufactureres including Micron Semiconductors. Our focus was on producting radiation hard sensors. The collaboration produced the first prototypes for two of the major CERN detectorss (LHCb and ATLAS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Manchester and Glagow contributed variants of the designs and different technologies. These were use by Glasgow with application to the ATLAS detectors at CERN and with Manchester to the LHCb detector at CERN. |
| Impact | The UK was able to capture the design and fabrication of sensors and modules for the LHCb detectors uipgrade at CERN and be the major lead int he design and construction of the pixel endcap for ATLAS |
| Start Year | 2010 |