Construction and Exploitation of the CMS, BaBar, MICE and FP420 experiments
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
Department Name: Sch of Engineering and Design
Abstract
The origins of mass and the understanding of asymmetry at a fundamental level are key goals of the CMS and BaBar experiments. The work of the Brunel group is aimed at completing the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter for CMS, contributing to the software associated with the Tracker and Electromagnetic Calorimeter of CMS, and exploiting the data when the LHC commences in 2007. We continue to analyse the data now being produced by the BaBar experiment in particular in the channels involving rare charmless decays. We will be developing, installing and exploiting tracking detectors for the new experiments MICE and FP420. Data visualisation and statistical learning techniques will be applied to particle physics data analysis. Our work on the development of novel silicon detectors will benefit future upgrades to LHC detectors as well as many other areas of scientific research (for example detectors at synchrotron sources).
Publications
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for supersymmetry in events with at least one photon, missing transverse momentum, and large transverse event activity in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Suppression of ?(1S), ?(2S), and ?(3S) quarkonium states in PbPb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Measurement of the inclusive energy spectrum in the very forward direction in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for top quark partners with charge 5/3 in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the WZ production cross section in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 7$$ s = 7 and 8 $$\,\text{TeV}$$ TeV and search for anomalous triple gauge couplings at $$\sqrt{s} = 8\,\text{TeV} $$ s = 8 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of differential cross sections for top quark pair production using the lepton + jets final state in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2017)
A search for new phenomena in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] in final states with missing transverse momentum and at least one jet using the [Formula: see text] variable.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Pseudorapidity dependence of long-range two-particle correlations in p Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings using production and decay information in the four-lepton final state
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Combination of searches for heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, and ZH boson pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 and 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Mechanical stability of the CMS strip tracker measured with a laser alignment system
in Journal of Instrumentation
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in PbPb and pPb collisions at s N N = 5.02 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{N}\;\mathrm{N}}}=5.02 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for top squark pair production in compressed-mass-spectrum scenarios in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV using the aT variable
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV and combination with 8 TeV search
in Physics Letters B
Maqbool W
(2017)
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Separation of Carboxylic Acids and Phenolics from Bio-Oil of Lignocellulosic Origin: Understanding Bio-Oil Compositions, Compound Solubilities, and Their Fractionation
in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for narrow resonances in dilepton mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV and combination with 8 TeV data
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Observation of the decay B+??(2S)?(1020)K+ in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Measurement of prompt and nonprompt [Formula: see text] production in [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for electroweak production of charginos in final states with two t leptons in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Principal-component analysis of two-particle azimuthal correlations in PbPb and p Pb collisions at CMS
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for t t ¯ $$ \mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}} $$ resonances in highly boosted lepton+jets and fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | First Grant |
Amount | £100,731 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/H042717/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2010 |
End | 07/2012 |
Description | CMS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
Description | CMS |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
Description | CMS |
Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Department | Particle Physics Department |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
Description | CMS |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Department | School of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
Description | Goldsmith A-level Physics Teachers Course |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Invited talks on particle physics plus one-day visit to CERN. 25 A-level (or equivalent) Physics Teachers attend a week-long residential course run at Brunel. Contacts established with Schools whom we subsequently have visited. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012 |
Description | IoP SE Branch Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 70 members of the public attended a talk at IoP HQ. Talk followed by half-hour of discussion. Some publicity for CMS ECAL |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Public Lecture on Higgs discovery |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 45 school pupils attended out of a toal audience of about 130 None so far |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |