Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019 - 2022
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
This grant supports particle physics data analysis from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) general purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider CERN and the maintenance and operation of the Silicon Tracker, a detector sub-system that enables us to reconstruct the momentum of charged particles. Exploiting the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where CMS with ALTAS discovered the Higgs Boson in 2012, will bring greatly enhanced understanding of the "Standard Model" of particle physics, particularly in the area of top-quark physics, searching for as yet undiscovered gauge bosons and supersymmetric particles, and ultimately shedding further light on the "Higgs" boson which is connected with the origins of mass. In particular we will use the huge datasets produced by CMS to study the production and properties of the top quark, a standard model particle with unique properties. We will not only make precise tests of the standard model by studying processes such as single top quark production in association with a Z boson but we can use the increasingly large data sets to begin to search for unexpected enhancements in highly suppressed channels involving Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC); seeing these would be exciting evidence of the breakdown of the standard model.
This grant provides support for academic staff who are contributing to the design and construction of an entirely new replacement silicon tracking detector for CMS, to be installed in the mid 2020's which will make available for the first time a trigger based on the momenta of individual tracks in every event arising from the proton-beam collisions.
This grant provides support for academic staff who are contributing to the design and construction of an entirely new replacement silicon tracking detector for CMS, to be installed in the mid 2020's which will make available for the first time a trigger based on the momenta of individual tracks in every event arising from the proton-beam collisions.
Planned Impact
Many groups and individuals will exploit and apply our work to provide the pathway to final impact.
Industrial and Commercial Users will be engaged through various instrumentation conferences where they form a significant part of the audience, as well as through presentations made to the industry professionals who sit on our Departmental "External Advisory Panel". These groups will be able to use the information and understanding generated by the research to exploit and apply it to their products and services.
We actively participate in outreach activities, many group members being STEM ambassadors. They providing us with the capacity to involve local school children through organizing events at Brunel, using our new HEFCE funded STEAM centre from 2018 onwards and by going out to local schools to provide interactive science sessions, enthusing young audiences about physics research. Group members support work-experience activities for Year 11-12 pupils and participate in the Nuffield Research Placement scheme.
Professional Users will be able to employ the results of our research in their organisations through team members' capacity and involvement with various Institute of Physics committees and groups, to provide other avenues for communicating scientific research through newsletters and IOP outreach events.
The Public will be able to engage with our research through Brunel's regular outreach activities to the general public, such as the events held at Brunel University during National Science and Engineering Week, the Brunel public lecture series and the Hillingdon Mathematics and Engineering Masterclasses. We actively participate in events such as the Cheltenham Science Festival, the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and the Big Bang Fair at the NEC. These activities all afford the opportunity to increase public awareness of, and interest in, STFC science and technology.
Detector development work conducted by the group will also be made known to the wider Academic Community through the all outreach methods described above and through collaborations with academic and industrial partners in the preparation of research proposals. Future bids developed with the contacts made over the last grant period will hopefully lead to additional funding and the sharing of knowledge and research with other collaborators in UK industry and RCUK funded research areas. Because of the above dissemination, use, application and exploitation of our research, benefits will accrue to all the groups mentioned.
Economic Impacts will accrue in industrial and commercial sectors, particularly in fields where advanced computing and data analysis skills are valued. Our detector development and radiation effects work benefits a commercial silicon and scintillation detector producers, CCD manufacturers, and photomultiplier manufacturers, through the ability to develop new products and services. Our detector development activity is currently impacting on industry in the medical and oil exploration areas.
People Impacts will accrue through the skills and training received by our fixed term contract research staff and our postgraduate students, many of whom go on to work in industry or become involved with STEM teaching, and will benefit the UK industrial and commercial sectors too, particularly in fields where advanced computing and data analysis skills are valued.
Social Impacts will result directly from the quality and continued professional development of teachers learning firsthand about our research and indirectly through the enthusiasm of their pupils studying STEM subjects that they teach. Involvement with schools has the potential for huge impact also affording the opportunity to increase awareness and interest in all STFC science areas. Improved public understanding of physics and the role played by the LHC experiments is a more general, albeit less definable, impact.
Industrial and Commercial Users will be engaged through various instrumentation conferences where they form a significant part of the audience, as well as through presentations made to the industry professionals who sit on our Departmental "External Advisory Panel". These groups will be able to use the information and understanding generated by the research to exploit and apply it to their products and services.
We actively participate in outreach activities, many group members being STEM ambassadors. They providing us with the capacity to involve local school children through organizing events at Brunel, using our new HEFCE funded STEAM centre from 2018 onwards and by going out to local schools to provide interactive science sessions, enthusing young audiences about physics research. Group members support work-experience activities for Year 11-12 pupils and participate in the Nuffield Research Placement scheme.
Professional Users will be able to employ the results of our research in their organisations through team members' capacity and involvement with various Institute of Physics committees and groups, to provide other avenues for communicating scientific research through newsletters and IOP outreach events.
The Public will be able to engage with our research through Brunel's regular outreach activities to the general public, such as the events held at Brunel University during National Science and Engineering Week, the Brunel public lecture series and the Hillingdon Mathematics and Engineering Masterclasses. We actively participate in events such as the Cheltenham Science Festival, the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and the Big Bang Fair at the NEC. These activities all afford the opportunity to increase public awareness of, and interest in, STFC science and technology.
Detector development work conducted by the group will also be made known to the wider Academic Community through the all outreach methods described above and through collaborations with academic and industrial partners in the preparation of research proposals. Future bids developed with the contacts made over the last grant period will hopefully lead to additional funding and the sharing of knowledge and research with other collaborators in UK industry and RCUK funded research areas. Because of the above dissemination, use, application and exploitation of our research, benefits will accrue to all the groups mentioned.
Economic Impacts will accrue in industrial and commercial sectors, particularly in fields where advanced computing and data analysis skills are valued. Our detector development and radiation effects work benefits a commercial silicon and scintillation detector producers, CCD manufacturers, and photomultiplier manufacturers, through the ability to develop new products and services. Our detector development activity is currently impacting on industry in the medical and oil exploration areas.
People Impacts will accrue through the skills and training received by our fixed term contract research staff and our postgraduate students, many of whom go on to work in industry or become involved with STEM teaching, and will benefit the UK industrial and commercial sectors too, particularly in fields where advanced computing and data analysis skills are valued.
Social Impacts will result directly from the quality and continued professional development of teachers learning firsthand about our research and indirectly through the enthusiasm of their pupils studying STEM subjects that they teach. Involvement with schools has the potential for huge impact also affording the opportunity to increase awareness and interest in all STFC science areas. Improved public understanding of physics and the role played by the LHC experiments is a more general, albeit less definable, impact.
Organisations
Publications

Adam W
(2020)
Experimental study of different silicon sensor options for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker
in Journal of Instrumentation

CMS Collaboration
(2020)
Search for direct pair production of supersymmetric partners to the t lepton in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Study of J / ? meson production inside jets in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the Y(1S) pair production cross section and search for resonances decaying to Y(1S)µ+µ- in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Determination of the strong coupling constant aS(mZ) from measurements of inclusive W± and Z boson production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Observation of the ? b 0 ? J / ? ? ? decay in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Erratum to: Study of dijet events with a large rapidity gap between the two leading jets in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$
in The European Physical Journal C

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the b b Z Z channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2021)
Search for top squark pair production using dilepton final states in $${\text {p}}{\text {p}}$$ collision data collected at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,\text {TeV} $$
in The European Physical Journal C

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of production cross sections of WZ and same-sign WW boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements with silicon photomultipliers of dose-rate effects in the radiation damage of plastic scintillator tiles in the CMS hadron endcap calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2021)
Measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for disappearing tracks in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of the W boson rapidity, helicity, double-differential cross sections, and charge asymmetry in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum at 13 TeV with the CMS experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Calibration of the CMS hadron calorimeters using proton-proton collision data at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Performance of the reconstruction and identification of high-momentum muons in proton-proton collisions at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Reconstruction of signal amplitudes in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter in the presence of overlapping proton-proton interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in dilepton final states containing one t lepton in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Study of excited ? b 0 states decaying to ? b 0 p + p - in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for dijet resonances using events with three jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with 137 fb - 1 in final states with a single lepton using the sum of masses of large-radius jets
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for an excited lepton that decays via a contact interaction to a lepton and two jets in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for a Narrow Resonance Lighter than 200 GeV Decaying to a Pair of Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review Letters

Sirunyan A
(2021)
Correlations of azimuthal anisotropy Fourier harmonics with subevent cumulants in p Pb collisions at s N N = 8.16 TeV
in Physical Review C

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Production of ? c + baryons in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of B c ( 2 S ) + and B c * ( 2 S ) + cross section ratios in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for high mass dijet resonances with a new background prediction method in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for bottom-type, vectorlike quark pair production in a fully hadronic final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Constraints on the ? c 1 versus ? c 2 Polarizations in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review Letters

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Running of the top quark mass from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H ± ? c s channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of properties of $$ {\mathrm{B}}_{\mathrm{s}}^0 $$? µ+µ- decays and search for B0? µ+µ- with the CMS experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
A measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the diphoton decay channel
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Dependence of inclusive jet production on the anti-kT distance parameter in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the t t ? b b ? production cross section in the all-jet final state in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Investigation into the event-activity dependence of ?(nS) relative production in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for top squark pair production in a final state with two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Identification of heavy, energetic, hadronically decaying particles using machine-learning techniques
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of t t ¯ H Production and the C P Structure of the Yukawa Interaction between the Higgs Boson and Top Quark in the Diphoton Decay Channel
in Physical Review Letters

Sirunyan A
(2020)
W + W - boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a Z boson and a ? or ? meson
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Strange hadron production in pp and p Pb collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review C

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Pileup mitigation at CMS in 13 TeV data
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of $$\hbox {t}{\bar{\hbox {t}}}$$ normalised multi-differential cross sections in $${\text {p}}{\text {p}} $$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,{\text {TeV}} $$, and simultaneous determination of the strong coupling strength, top quark pole mass, and parton distribution functions
in The European Physical Journal C

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of CKM matrix elements in single top quark t-channel production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Observation of electroweak production of W? with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan AM
(2020)
A multi-dimensional search for new heavy resonances decaying to boosted W W , W Z , or Z Z boson pairs in the dijet final state at 13 Te .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Measurement of single-diffractive dijet production in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 Te with the CMS and TOTEM experiments.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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