Study of elementary particles and their interactions
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The grant is to continue the investigation into the properties of elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature. The dominant programme will be to complete the CMS & LHCb experiments to take data at the LHC and to analyses the first data to see if the Higgs theory is sound and search for evidence of phyisc beyond the standard model sucha as supersymmetry. Before the LHC takes data these seraches will be made at the Tevatron in the USA. An exquisite test of the standard model arises in CP violation in the b-system as this (probable) interference phenomenon can be very sensitive to small amplitudes. This will be investigated in detail by experiments first at SLAC and later at the LHC. Observation of neutrino oscillation shows that the neutrinops are not massless and this can have profound consequnces. These will be investigated in detail by the T2K experiment in Japan and searches for neutrinoless double beta decay. The ultimate neurino experiemnts will require a neutrino factory based on a muon storage ring. This requires developmetn whci is taking place via the MICE experiemnt and a programme of accelrator R&D aimed at a high intensity proton driver. Future particle physics facilities will require more sophisticated detectors and the technologies required for the detectors at the Linear Collidare being investigated with the CALICE experiment and effort is starting on the challengin task of a detector for a very high luminosity LHC.
Organisations
Publications
Group T
(2008)
Intercalibration of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at start-up
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abe K
(2016)
Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Oscillations with an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Beam.
in Physical review letters
Lu X
(2016)
Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions with minimal dependence on neutrino energy
in Physical Review C
Abe K
(2015)
Measurement of the ? µ charged-current quasielastic cross section on carbon with the ND280 detector at T2K
in Physical Review D
Egede U
(2008)
New observables in the decay mode B¯ d ? K¯ *0 l + l -
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abe K
(2016)
Upper bound on neutrino mass based on T2K neutrino timing measurements
in Physical Review D