Research in High Energy Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Investigation into the properties of elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature. Precision tests of the Standard Model (SM); searches for new phenomena and extensions to the SM; studies of CP violation in the b-system; measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters; WIMP dark matter searches, preparations for future experiments, including HL-LHC, feasibility studies for future neutrino factories, double-beta decay experiments, gravitational wave detectors and linear colliders.
Publications
Abe K
(2020)
First measurement of the charged current ? ¯ ยต double differential cross section on a water target without pions in the final state
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2020)
First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K
in Physical Review D
Blondel A
(2020)
The SuperFGD Prototype charged particle beam tests
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abe K
(2020)
Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance in a Long-Baseline Muon Antineutrino Beam.
in Physical review letters
T2K Collaboration
(2020)
Publisher Correction: Constraint on the matter-antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations.
in Nature
Abe K
(2020)
Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2020)
Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single p + production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2021)
T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 3.13 × 10 21 protons on target
in Physical Review D
Studentship Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST/R504816/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2021 | |||
| 1963041 | Studentship | ST/R504816/1 | 01/10/2017 | 31/05/2021 | Wilf SHORROCK |
| Description | T2K Collaboration |
| Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overhauled the main analysis software for the near detector of the T2K experiment. Helped with maintenance of the far detector of the T2K experiment. Helped at a beam test at CERN for a new scintillator detector prototype. \The actual detector will be installed on the T2K experiment in 2021. Performed analysis on the CERN beam test data to ascertain the detector properties. Acted as run coordinator at a neutron beam test at LANL for the same prototype detector, plus a new prototype. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expert advice on the structure of the analysis software. Organisation of the beam tests and meetings to discuss work. Conceptualisation and design of the new scintillator detector and its prototypes |
| Impact | Pending |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | ND280 Software Overhaul |
| Description | Used to generate monte carlo data for the near detector (called ND280) of T2K. It is also used to reconstruct measured data and compare with the monte carlo data. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | A new, up-to-date environment for developers of the ND280 Software code was created. This was in response to the proposed ND280 upgrade, which will engender much more development of the software. |
| Title | SFGD Prototype Detector |
| Description | A novel scintillator detector that uses cubes of plastic scintillator to reconstruct the trajectories of charged particles to pass through it. This is a completely new detector design and possibly the first in the next generation of scintillator detectors, as the design has many advantages to existing detectors, including the tracking of particles travelling in any direction, as opposed to a limit range of trajectories, and high granularity. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Confirmed viability of the SFGD design. Found potential problems with the design that need to be improved. Quantified properties of the detector prototype, such as the time resolution. Steps towards installing the SFGD detector in the T2K experiment, which will reduce systematic errors in neutrino energy reconstruction and speed up progress towards more accurate measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters. |