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
(2016)
Erratum to: Search for direct pair production of scalar top quarks in the single- and dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new physics in final states with two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for R-parity violating decays of a top squark in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive [Formula: see text] production at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV in the single-lepton final state using the sum of masses of large-radius jets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of [Formula: see text] production with additional jet activity, including [Formula: see text] quark jets, in the dilepton decay channel using pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the top quark mass using proton-proton data at ( s ) = 7 and 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurements of t t ¯ spin correlations and top quark polarization using dilepton final states in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Ibisch PL
(2016)
A global map of roadless areas and their conservation status.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
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 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 dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV and constraints on dark matter and other models
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)
Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurements of differential production cross sections for a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ 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)
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
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of inclusive jet cross sections in p p and PbPb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Measurement of the jet mass in highly boosted [Formula: see text] events from pp collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings using production and decay information in the four-lepton final state
in Physics Letters B
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
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 | 07/2010 |
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 |