Quota Studentships
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.
People |
ORCID iD |
Christopher Booth (Training Grant Holder) |
Publications
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and b-jets
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the differential cross-sections of inclusive, prompt and non-prompt
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of multi-jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at a 7 TeV center-of-mass energy
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2010)
Readiness of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter for LHC collisions
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for quark contact interactions in dijet angular distributions in pp collisions at
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2010)
The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
in The European Physical Journal C
Description | ATLAS |
Organisation | ATLAS Experiment |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | SCT detector system development, monitoring and running. ATLAS supersymmetry searches and trigger development. Contributions to SUSY 0-lepton analysis. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of ATLAS detector and research environment see http://atlas.ch |
Impact | Scientific papers as reported elsewhere. |
Description | MICE |
Organisation | International MICE Collaboration |
Country | Global |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Design, construction, maintenance and operation of target drive. Periods as Operations Manager on site; running experimental shifts; providing on-call experts, etc. Monitoring of experimental conditions; analysis of data. Magnetic modelling and shielding calculations. Calibration system for fibre tracker. |
Collaborator Contribution | Joint construction of apparatus; sharing in running shifts; joint analysis of data. Provision of other parts of the experiment. |
Impact | Working target drive for generation of muons. Operational beam-line for measurement of muon cooling. Journal publications and conference talks. |
Description | T2K |
Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
Country | Global |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Quality assurance/acceptance tests on ECAL scintillators; construction of light injection (LI) system; installation of LI in ECAL modules built at Lancaster, Liverpool, Warwick, & Daresbury; analysis of LI test data; commisioning of LI system on installation of ECAL at Tokai. |
Collaborator Contribution | Construction of apparatus, commissioning, operations, data analysis |
Impact | LI system will have impact on performance of ECAL and therefore on quality of physics from T2K. |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Tarantula |
Organisation | Royal Observatory Edinburgh |
Department | VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Invrestigation of properties of Wolf-Rayet stars sampled within Tarantula Survey |
Collaborator Contribution | "Impossible to summarise, since many and varied" |
Impact | Papers in preparation |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Warwick |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Catalogue searech and observing support on large telescopes. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of modelling expertise |
Impact | Paper cited above |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Talks to undergraduates |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Sheffield undergraduate students visited CERN on tour of experiments and facilities. Activities will be repeated in future years |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |