Construction and Exploitation of the CMS, BaBar, MICE and FP420 experiments
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University
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).
Organisations
Publications
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Observation of Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations in p-Pb Collisions and Its Implication for the Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurements of differential cross sections for associated production of a W boson and jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Measurement of the top quark mass in the dileptonic t t ¯ decay channel using the mass observables M b l , M T 2 , and M b l ? in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Searches for W' bosons decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] production cross section using events in the [Formula: see text] final state in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of electroweak-induced production of W? with two jets in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Relative Modification of Prompt ?(2S) and J/? Yields from pp to PbPb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Study of Jet Quenching with Z+jet Correlations in Pb-Pb and pp Collisions at sqrt[s]_{NN}=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for new physics with dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Measurement of the top quark mass using single top quark events in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for dark matter and unparticles in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Multiplicity and rapidity dependence of strange hadron production in pp, pPb, and PbPb collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2017)
Measurement of the mass difference between top quark and antiquark in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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 single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a Z boson and a top or a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for associated production of dark matter with a Higgs boson decaying to b b ¯ $$ \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $$ or ?? 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 [Formula: see text] and 8[Formula: see text] and search for anomalous triple gauge couplings at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for supersymmetry in events with photons and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for associated production of a Z boson with a single top quark and for tZ flavour-changing interactions in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for a heavy composite Majorana neutrino in the final state with two leptons and two quarks at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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)
Observation of Y(1S) pair production in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for supersymmetry in the all-hadronic final state using top quark tagging in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] pp collisions.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Aggleton R
(2017)
An FPGA based track finder for the L1 trigger of the CMS experiment at the High Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
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 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 AM
(2017)
Measurement of the B^{±} Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the transverse momentum spectra of weak vector bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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)
Suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt and nonprompt [Formula: see text] production in PbPb collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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)
Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks and heavy right-handed neutrinos in final states with two tau leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for standard model production of four top quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Search for Evidence of the Type-III Seesaw Mechanism in Multilepton Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark with a lepton and jets in the final state
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the b b t t final state in proton-proton collisions at ( s ) = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Suppression of ?(1S), ?(2S), and ?(3S) quarkonium states in PbPb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
| 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 |