Bristol Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2012-17
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The University of Bristol proposes to carry out research into the fundamental laws of space, time, matter and force. The current theoretical description of physics at the smallest scales, the Standard Model, is known not to hold at energies greater than around 1TeV. By carrying out experiments at particle colliders, we will observe how and when the Standard Model breaks down; discover new models which accurate describe physics at these scales; measure the parameters of these models; and investigate their significance for cosmology and the study of the large-scale universe. This work will be carried out using a wide range of different experiments and studies.
The experimental data supporting this programme will be obtained using the CMS and LHCb experiments at the CERN LHC, and the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS. We will use these detectors to work both at the energy frontier, with sensitivity to new heavy particles, and the precision frontier, comparing the largest ever experimental data sets with the predictions of the Standard Model. Having built important components of these experiments, we will continue to operate and maintain the apparatus, and design and install upgraded equipment to further enhance their capabilities.
We will design and construct new particle detectors and instruments, optimised for sensitivity, performance and cost. Along with new techniques we will develop in computing and data analysis, this technology will be used in the future to build new experiments at future colliders, and to solve practical problems in the security, medical and environmental sectors.
The results of our research will be publicised via talks, media involvement and events, in order to enhance public understanding and appreciation of science. We will engage with schools wherever possible, in order to ensure the continued take-up of science subjects at school and university level.
The experimental data supporting this programme will be obtained using the CMS and LHCb experiments at the CERN LHC, and the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS. We will use these detectors to work both at the energy frontier, with sensitivity to new heavy particles, and the precision frontier, comparing the largest ever experimental data sets with the predictions of the Standard Model. Having built important components of these experiments, we will continue to operate and maintain the apparatus, and design and install upgraded equipment to further enhance their capabilities.
We will design and construct new particle detectors and instruments, optimised for sensitivity, performance and cost. Along with new techniques we will develop in computing and data analysis, this technology will be used in the future to build new experiments at future colliders, and to solve practical problems in the security, medical and environmental sectors.
The results of our research will be publicised via talks, media involvement and events, in order to enhance public understanding and appreciation of science. We will engage with schools wherever possible, in order to ensure the continued take-up of science subjects at school and university level.
Planned Impact
The key beneficiaries of the proposed research programme, and the benefits they are likely to obtain, can be classified as follows:
- The results obtained and techniques developed in this programme will be of direct benefit in the international fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and astronomy. The research outputs will directly address outstanding questions in these fields.
- Other academic disciplines will benefit directly and indirectly through access to instruments and techniques developed in this research programme. There is also potential impact upon private-sector companies for commercialisation of detector and computing technology. Examples of areas where impact has already been demonstrated include the security and medical instrumentation sectors. UK industry will also benefit through contracts for specialized detectors and electronic / mechanical assemblies.
- The results from high-profile particle physics experiments provide both a significant cultural impact for the general public, and an impact on the science agenda of national and regional government. Engagement of both the general public and policy makers is an explicit aim of this programme, with routes detailed in the pathways to impact document.
- There is a particular impact upon schools and universities, due to the postitive effect of experimental particle physics upon take up of science courses at GCSE, A-Level and degree levels. The results obtained as part of this research programme will help to continue the 'LHC effect', with physics becoming an increasingly popular subject.
- The technological and organisational demands of experimental particle physics have a demonstrated impact upon culture and best practice in universities and academia in general, and will continue to do so. For instance, through the move to open electronic repositories and open publishing; through the use of networking and distributed research in many disciplines; and through well planned and high profile public engagement exercises.
- The results obtained and techniques developed in this programme will be of direct benefit in the international fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and astronomy. The research outputs will directly address outstanding questions in these fields.
- Other academic disciplines will benefit directly and indirectly through access to instruments and techniques developed in this research programme. There is also potential impact upon private-sector companies for commercialisation of detector and computing technology. Examples of areas where impact has already been demonstrated include the security and medical instrumentation sectors. UK industry will also benefit through contracts for specialized detectors and electronic / mechanical assemblies.
- The results from high-profile particle physics experiments provide both a significant cultural impact for the general public, and an impact on the science agenda of national and regional government. Engagement of both the general public and policy makers is an explicit aim of this programme, with routes detailed in the pathways to impact document.
- There is a particular impact upon schools and universities, due to the postitive effect of experimental particle physics upon take up of science courses at GCSE, A-Level and degree levels. The results obtained as part of this research programme will help to continue the 'LHC effect', with physics becoming an increasingly popular subject.
- The technological and organisational demands of experimental particle physics have a demonstrated impact upon culture and best practice in universities and academia in general, and will continue to do so. For instance, through the move to open electronic repositories and open publishing; through the use of networking and distributed research in many disciplines; and through well planned and high profile public engagement exercises.
Organisations
Publications
Dordevic M
(2016)
Recent Standard Model measurements at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Kim T
(2013)
Top Quark Asymmetry Results at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Autermann C
(2015)
Search for Supersymmetry at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Seidel M
(2013)
Top-quark mass results at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Nachman B
(2013)
Measuring the Top Quark Mass using Kinematic Endpoints
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Künsken A
(2015)
MPPC photon sensor operational experience in CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Jones C
(2015)
Using the CMS Threaded Framework In A Production Environment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Baumgartel D
(2014)
Searches for the pair production of scalar leptoquarks at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
De Visscher S
(2015)
Recent Standard Model results from CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Hufnagel D
(2012)
CMS Tier-0: Preparing for the future
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Salur S
(2012)
Dijet imbalance in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions in CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Shabalina E
(2013)
Top quark mass combination techniques and treatment of uncertainties at the Tevatron and LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Miceli T
(2014)
A search for dark matter appearing as missing transverse energy at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Apresyan A
(2012)
Identification and Mitigation of Anomalous Signals in CMS Hadronic Calorimeter
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Golling T
(2013)
LHC searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with top quarks
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Boudreau J
(2013)
Instrumental Backgrounds to tt¯ and Single Top Production at Hadron Colliders
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Lee S
(2017)
Charmonium production in pp, pPb and PbPb with CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Salur S
(2015)
A Brief Review of CMS Jet Measurements
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Dias F
(2013)
Search for exotic resonances in diboson final states with the CMS detector at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Valassi A
(2014)
CORAL and COOL during the LHC long shutdown
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Hu Z
(2013)
Observation of sequential ? suppression in PbPb collisions
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Hammad G
(2013)
Search for production of SUSY partners of the top quark with the CMS detector
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Ta D
(2013)
Single top-quarks at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Rangel G
(2012)
Quarkonium production in 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions in CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
De Filippis N
(2013)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs in H ? ZZ ? 4l channel with the CMS experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
RamÃrez J
(2016)
Exploiting multicore compute resources in the CMS experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Zsigmond A
(2015)
Study of Z boson production in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions in CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Eysermans J
(2016)
Charged Higgs Analysis in CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
De Fatis T
(2012)
Role of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter in the hunt for the Higgs boson in the two-gamma channel
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Quittnat M
(2015)
FLUKA studies of hadron-irradiated scintillating crystals for calorimetry at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Boutle S
(2013)
Interplay of Top Quark and Higgs Boson Measurements at the Tevatron and LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Sauvan J
(2015)
Performance and upgrade of the CMS electron and photon trigger for Run 2
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Zepeda Fernández C
(2016)
Measurement of the J/? cross section in pp collisions at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Brook N
(2014)
Studies of Onia and Strangeness Production in Proton-proton Collisions at LHCb
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Stephans G
(2014)
Jet results from PbPb and pPb collisions with CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Cerci D
(2014)
Hadronic results from CMS experiment at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Déliot F
(2013)
Vector boson+jets as background to top-quark physics at Tevatron and LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Brinkerhoff A
(2013)
Search for Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair in pp collisions
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Zhang L
(2012)
A Diode-Pumped Solid State Blue Laser for Monitoring the CMS Lead Tungstate Crystal Calorimeter at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Wengler T
(2013)
Top quark angular distributions at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Cortiana G
(2013)
Experimental and theoretical uncertainties in top-quark mass measurements at the Tevatron and the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Rangel G
(2013)
Detailed measurements of bottomonium suppression in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Florent A
(2013)
Electroweak bosons in heavy-ion collisions with the CMS detector at =2.76 TeV
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Görner M
(2013)
Measurement of Differential tt¯ Cross Sections at 7 TeV
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Yetkin E
(2014)
Observation of Structures in the J / ?? Mass Spectrum at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Stephans G
(2017)
Collectivity of (non-)strange hadrons in high-multiplicity pp with CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Branca A
(2013)
Search for the neutral Supersymmetric Higgs boson with the CMS experiment at LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Blyweert S
(2013)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Pedraza-Morales M
(2016)
The diphoton resonance and Higgs results from the CMS Detector of the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Symonds P
(2013)
Measurement of Missing Transverse Energy in Top Pair Events
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
| Description | This award supported several key developments in particle physics. Most notably, early in the funding period the Higgs boson was discovered and considerable effort was then spent to precisely determine its properties to see if it is really exactly as predicted. There were a host of other measurements at various experiments, pinning down details of the standard model and trying to spot deviations. Finally, good progress was made in "spinning out" particle physics technology into other areas, including the development of systems for scanning for dense materials (with security and other applications) as well as for radiotherapy beam monitoring. |
| Exploitation Route | The group is continuing to pursue these lines of research with subsequent grants. Other particle physics groups have also noted our results. And companies are working with us to develop commercial products based on our knowledge exchange. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Healthcare |
| Description | Research conducted in muon tomography is being investigated by homeland security agencies, the nuclear industry and others as a means of remote, non-invasive imaging. Research in radiotherapy beam monitoring has led to commercial products. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic |