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
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)
First measurement of the CP-violating phase in Bs(0) ? ?? decays.
in Physical review letters
LHCb Collaboration
(2013)
Measurements of the branching fractions of [Formula: see text] decays.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Observation of D°-D¯Â° mixing using the CDF II detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the CP asymmetry in B(+)?K(+)µ(+)µ(-) decays.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2013)
Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the differential cross section ds/d(cos?(t)) for Top-Quark Pair Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov V
(2013)
Search for anomalous quartic W W ? ? couplings in dielectron and missing energy final states in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2013)
Measurement of the Z Z production cross section and search for the standard model Higgs boson in the four lepton final state in p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the CKM angle ? from a combination of B ± ? D h ± analyses
in Physics Letters B
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of the inclusive jet cross-section in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] and comparison to the inclusive jet cross-section at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Kuehn S
(2013)
Signal and charge collection efficiency of n-in-p strip detectors after mixed irradiation to HL-LHC fluences
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the D ± production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Physics Letters B
Alexa C
(2013)
Elastic and proton-dissociative photoproduction of J/? mesons at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Search for a dijet resonance in events with jets and missing transverse energy in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
T2K neutrino flux prediction
in Physical Review D
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of jet shapes in top-quark pair events at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Abramowicz H
(2013)
Combination and QCD analysis of charm production cross section measurements in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of D0-D0 mixing parameters and search for CP violation using D0 ? K+ p- decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the leptonic asymmetry in t t ¯ events produced in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Alexa C
(2013)
Measurement of charged particle spectra in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of the high-mass Drell-Yan differential cross-section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
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)
Prompt charm production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2013)
First observations of B ¯ s 0 ? D + D - , D s + D - and D 0 D ¯ 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of the decay B c + ? ? ( 2 S ) p +
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
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of the inclusive ? µ charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the B 0 - B ¯ 0 oscillation frequency ? m d with the decays B 0 ? D - p + and B 0 ? J / ? K ? 0
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of the ? b 0 lifetime and mass in the ATLAS experiment
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First observation of the decay Bs2*(5840)(0)?B*+ K- and studies of excited Bs(0) mesons.
in Physical review letters
LHCb Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of J/? polarization in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of the decay B s 0 ? D ¯ 0 ?
in Physics Letters B
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
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of charged-particle event shape variables in inclusive ( s ) = 7 TeV proton-proton interactions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2013)
Search for Z H ? l + l - b b ¯ production in 9.7 fb - 1 of p p ¯ collisions with the D0 detector
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Study of B 0 ? D * - p + p - p + and B 0 ? D * - K + p - p + decays
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for displaced muonic lepton jets from light Higgs boson decay in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
BRÃœNING O
(2013)
THE LARGE HADRON ELECTRON COLLIDER
in Modern Physics Letters A
Aad G
(2013)
Measurements of top quark pair relative differential cross-sections with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mbox{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
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
Aad G
(2013)
Single hadron response measurement and calorimeter jet energy scale uncertainty with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for rare B(0)((s))?µ(+)µ(-)µ(+)µ(-) decays.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of Z boson production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
| 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 |