Programme of Research in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Warwick, 2009-2014
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Warwick
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The scope of the proposed research lies in four distinct areas: the physics of particles containing the beauty quark, and the physics of neutrinos, accelerator and detector research and development. It also includes Outreach and Knowledge Exchange programmes, as follows: o We aim to further our research into matter/anti-matter asymmetry (CP Violation) with Beauty mesons at the LHCb experiment. This is important, because we have shown in past experiments that the leading source of CP violation at low energies is consistent with the Standard Model mechanism of CP violation. However, cosmological considerations indicate that there should be other sources of CP violation in Nature, so we aim to make further sensitive tests with beauty mesons, in order to see if any evidence for additional sources of CP violation in Nature may appear there. o The elucidation of the properties of neutrinos. These are very light, neutral particles which are emitted, for example, by the sun, and in radioactive beta decay. They have recently been found to oscillate, ie. transmute from one type to another, while they propagate. We propose to build part of the T2K experiment, operate it and analyse its data., This experiment aims to determine the details of the oscillation behaviour. In particular, it aims to establish the rate and extent of oscillations between muon- and electron-neutrinos, and to derive related information on neutrino masses. o We propose to continue our research and development on the Neutrino Factory project, which aims to provide crucial information for the design of such a particle accelerator, which, in turn, could be built in the future to search for CP violation in the oscillations of neutrinos. o We propose to continue our research and development of position- and energy-sensitive detectors for applications in neutrino experiments and with potential spin-off applications in industry. o We will continue to develop our outreach programme which includes activities for local schools and articles in popular science publications. o Supported by a strong University strategy and ethos in KE, we will continue to pursue all avenues for possible KE.
Organisations
- University of Warwick (Lead Research Organisation)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- T2K Collaboration (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (Collaboration)
Publications
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of the suppressed ADS modes B ± ? [ p ± K ± p + p - ] D K ± and B ± ? [ p ± K ± p + p - ] D p ±
in Physics Letters B
Lees J
(2013)
Search for di-muon decays of a low-mass Higgs boson in radiative decays of the ? ( 1 S )
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of CP violation in the phase space of B±?K± p+ p- and B±?K± K+ K- decays.
in Physical review letters
McConkey N
(2013)
Liquid scintillator time projection chamber concept
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
LHCb RICH Collaboration
(2013)
Performance of the LHCb RICH detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2013)
Observations of B s 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) ? and B ( s ) 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) p + p - decays
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays B(s)0?e(±)µ(±) and B0?e(±)µ(±).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
Studies of the decays B + ? p p ¯ h + and observation of B + ? ? ¯ ( 1520 ) p
in Physical Review D
Lees J
(2013)
Measurement of an excess of B ¯ ? D ( * ) t - ? ¯ t decays and implications for charged Higgs bosons
in Physical Review D
Lees J
(2014)
Search for new p 0 -like particles produced in association with a t -lepton pair
in Physical Review D
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
A measurement of the ratio of the production cross sections for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] bosons in association with jets with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Lees J
(2014)
Evidence for the baryonic decay B ¯ 0 ? D 0 ? ? ¯
in Physical Review D
Lees J
(2014)
Bottomonium spectroscopy and radiative transitions involving the ? b J ( 1 P , 2 P ) states at BaBar
in Physical Review D
Lees J
(2014)
Antideuteron production in ? ( n S ) decays and in e + e - ? q q ¯ at s Ëœ 10.58 GeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton-proton collision data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Observation of an excited Bc(±) meson state with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the forward W boson cross-section in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV
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
Collaboration T
(2014)
Precision luminosity measurements at LHCb
in Journal of Instrumentation
Lees J
(2014)
Study of the reaction e + e - ? ? ( 2 S ) p + p - via initial-state radiation at BaBar
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of C P violation parameters in B 0 ? D K * 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for the decay D 0 ? p + p - µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Addendum: Observation of double charm production involving open charm in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the Bs(0) ? Ds-Ds+ and Bs(0) ? D-Ds+ effective lifetimes.
in Physical review letters
Gabor C
(2014)
Matching an H(-) beam into a radio frequency quadrupole at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Aad G
(2014)
Comprehensive measurements of t -channel single top-quark production cross sections at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Lees J
(2014)
Dalitz plot analysis of ? c ? K + K - ? and ? c ? K + K - p 0 in two-photon interactions
in Physical Review D
Lees J
(2014)
Search for lepton-number violating B + ? X - l + l ' + decays
in Physical Review D
Back J
(2014)
Implementation of a local principal curves algorithm for neutrino interaction reconstruction in a liquid argon volume
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the ?b? baryon.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2014)
Observation of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation in the decay D + ? p - p + p +
in Physics Letters B
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton channel using proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of flow harmonics with multi-particle cumulants in Pb+Pb collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the B ¯ 0 - B 0 and B ¯ s 0 - B s 0 production asymmetries in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of inclusive jet charged-particle fragmentation functions in Pb+Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Bogomilov M
(2014)
Neutrino factory
in Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurements of C P violation in the three-body phase space of charmless B ± decays
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the inclusive electron neutrino charged current cross section on carbon with the T2K near detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of CP asymmetry in B s 0 ? D s ± K ± decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Related Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Award Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST/H001085/1 | 30/09/2009 | 30/03/2011 | £410,595 | ||
| ST/H001085/2 | Transfer | ST/H001085/1 | 30/09/2010 | 29/09/2012 | £3,574,773 |
| Description | We have made many key measurements in B physics. We discovered a Higgs boson in 2012, and excluded large areas of parameter space in beyond Standard Model physics. We have made measurements of neutrino oscillations. |
| Exploitation Route | . |
| Sectors | Education |
| Description | The discovery of the Higgs Boson made a major impact in the press and in the public imagination. This stimulated millions of people to consider the fundamental questions of the origin of matter in the Universe. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Education,Energy,Transport |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic |
| Title | Review of Particle Properties |
| Description | This is a globally-accessible database of all particle physics results. Many results of this research have entered into this database and several members of my team have directly contributed to this database. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2009 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This database is the research Bible for particle physics. It is universally used and accepted within the particle physics community and is without peer. |
| URL | http://pdg.lbl.gov |
| Description | ATLAS |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Physics Department |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team at The University of Warwick have provides expertise and personnel to help with the continued operation and data collection at ATLAS as well as data analysis and interpretation of results collected by Warwick and other institutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the ATLAS team have provided resources and experimental time to allow for the collection of data which has been used by members of Warwick to produce output for ATLAS, with the appropriate acknowledgements to Warwick staff. |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | LHcb |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment (LHCb) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The research team at The University of Warwick have provides expertise and personnel to help with the continued operation and data collection at LHcb as well as data analysis and interpretation of results collected by Warwick. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the LHcb team have provided resources and experimental time to allow for the collection of data which has been used by members of Warwick to produce output for LHcb, with the appropriate acknowledgements to Warwick staff. |
| Impact | Any publication which indicates a LHcb Collaboration or authored by 'Aaij, R. and others' |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | MICE |
| Organisation | International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The research team at The University of Warwick have provides expertise and personnel to help with the continued operation and data collection at MICE as well as data analysis and interpretation of results collected by Warwick. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the MICE team have provided resources and experimental time to allow for the collection of data which has been used by members of Warwick to produce output for MICE, with the appropriate acknowledgements to Warwick staff. |
| Impact | Publications with reference MICE experimental data |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Neutrino Factory |
| Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team at The University of Warwick have provides expertise and personnel to help with the continued Research and development into the Neutrino Factory as well as data analysis and interpretation of results collected by Warwick and other institutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Neutrino Factory team have provided resources and ideas to allow for the development of new techniques which have been used by members of Warwick to produce new insights into techniques and equipment. |
| Impact | Publication which make reference to the Neutrino Factory |
| Description | SuperNEMO |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | SuperNEMO |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team at The University of Warwick have provides expertise and personnel to help with the continued operation and data collection at SuperNEMO as well as data analysis and interpretation of results collected by Warwick. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the SuperNEMO team have provided resources and experimental time to allow for the collection of data which has been used by members of Warwick to produce output for SuperNEMO, with the appropriate acknowledgements to Warwick staff. |
| Impact | Publications which reference SuperNEMO experimental Data. (No PubMed ID's Available) |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | T2K |
| Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team at The University of Warwick have provides expertise and personnel to help with the continued operation and data collection at ATLAS as well as data analysis and interpretation of results collected by Warwick. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the T2K team have provided resources and experimental time to allow for the collection of data which has been used by members of Warwick to produce output for T2K, with the appropriate acknowledgements to Warwick staff. |
| Impact | All publications which have used T2K data. |