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Quota Studentships

Lead Research Organisation: University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.

Publications

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Aad G (2014) Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photons cross section in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector using 4.6 fb - 1 in Physical Review D

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Aad G (2014) Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector in Physics Letters B

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Bogomilov M (2014) Neutrino factory in Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams

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Battat J (2014) Radon in the DRIFT-II directional dark matter TPC: emanation, detection and mitigation in Journal of Instrumentation

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Aad G (2014) Search for quantum black hole production in high-invariant-mass lepton+jet final states using pp collisions at vs=8 TeV and the ATLAS detector. in Physical review letters

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Aad G (2014) Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in W + W - b b ¯ events with the ATLAS detector in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV in Physical Review D

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Battat J (2015) First background-free limit from a directional dark matter experiment: Results from a fully fiducialised DRIFT detector in Physics of the Dark Universe

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Georges And Others Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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A A10 - Abdinov A11 - O A12 - Abi A13 - B A14 - Abolins A15 - M A16 - AbouZeid A17 - OS A18 - Abramowicz A19 - H A20 - Abreu A21 - H A22 - Acerbi A23 - E A24 - Acharya A25 - BS A26 - Adam A27 - E A28 - Adamczyk A29 - L A30 - Adams A31 - DL A32 - Addy A33 - TN A34 - Adelman A35 - J A36 - Aderholz A37 - M A38 - Adomeit A39 - S A40 - Adragna A41 - P A42 - Adye A43 - T A44 - Aefsky A45 - S A46 - Aguilar-Saa Search for resonant WZ production in the WZ -> lvl ' l ' channel in root(s)=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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G. And Others Search for t anti-t H(H --- b anti-b)

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A A10 - Abdinov A11 - O A12 - Abi A13 - B A14 - Abolin A15 - M A16 - Abramowicz A17 - H A18 - Abreu A19 - H A20 - Acerbi A21 - E A22 - Acharya A23 - BS A24 - Adams A25 - DL A26 - Addy A27 - TN A28 - Adelman A29 - J A30 - Aderholz A31 - M A32 - Adomeit A33 - S A34 - Adragna A35 - P A36 - Adye A37 - T A38 - Aefsky A39 - S A40 - Aguilar-Saavedra A41 - JA A42 - Aharrouche A43 - M A44 - Ahlen A45 - SP A46 - Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H -> ZZ(()*()) -> 4l with the ATLAS detector

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J. The t anti-t H analyses at the LHC

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Georges And Others Observation of Associated Near-side and Away-side Long-range Correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=5.02 TeV Proton-lead Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

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J. The t anti-t H analysis at the LHC

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G. And Others Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

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G. And Others Performance of the ATLAS b-tagging algorithms

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A A10 - Abdinov A11 - O A12 - Abi A13 - B A14 - Abolins A15 - M A16 - AbouZeid A17 - OS A18 - Abramowicz A19 - H A20 - Abreu A21 - H A22 - Acerbi A23 - E A24 - Acharya A25 - BS A26 - Adam A27 - ER A28 - Adamczyk A29 - L A30 - Adams A31 - DL A32 - Addy A33 - TN A34 - Adelman A35 - J A36 - Aderholz A37 - M A38 - Adomeit A39 - S A40 - Adragna A41 - P A42 - Adye A43 - T A44 - Aefsky A45 - S A46 - Aguilar-Sa Search for Pair Production of a New b ' Quark that Decays into a Z Boson and a Bottom Quark with the ATLAS Detector

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Georges And Others Observation of Associated Near-side and Away-side Long-range Correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV Proton-lead Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

 
Description ATLAS 
Organisation ATLAS Experiment
Country Switzerland 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution SCT detector system development, monitoring and running. ATLAS supersymmetry searches and trigger development. Contributions to SUSY 0-lepton analysis.
Collaborator Contribution Provision of ATLAS detector and research environment see http://atlas.ch
Impact Scientific papers as reported elsewhere.
 
Description MICE 
Organisation International MICE Collaboration
Country Global 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Design, construction, maintenance and operation of target drive. Periods as Operations Manager on site; running experimental shifts; providing on-call experts, etc. Monitoring of experimental conditions; analysis of data. Magnetic modelling and shielding calculations. Calibration system for fibre tracker.
Collaborator Contribution Joint construction of apparatus; sharing in running shifts; joint analysis of data. Provision of other parts of the experiment.
Impact Working target drive for generation of muons. Operational beam-line for measurement of muon cooling. Journal publications and conference talks.
 
Description T2K 
Organisation T2K Collaboration
Country Global 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Quality assurance/acceptance tests on ECAL scintillators; construction of light injection (LI) system; installation of LI in ECAL modules built at Lancaster, Liverpool, Warwick, & Daresbury; analysis of LI test data; commisioning of LI system on installation of ECAL at Tokai.
Collaborator Contribution Construction of apparatus, commissioning, operations, data analysis
Impact LI system will have impact on performance of ECAL and therefore on quality of physics from T2K.
Start Year 2009
 
Description Tarantula 
Organisation Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Department VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Invrestigation of properties of Wolf-Rayet stars sampled within Tarantula Survey
Collaborator Contribution "Impossible to summarise, since many and varied"
Impact Papers in preparation
Start Year 2009
 
Description Warwick 
Organisation University of Warwick
Department Department of Physics
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Catalogue searech and observing support on large telescopes.
Collaborator Contribution Provision of modelling expertise
Impact Paper cited above
Start Year 2009
 
Description Talks to undergraduates 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Sheffield undergraduate students visited CERN on tour of experiments and facilities.

Activities will be repeated in future years
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010