Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The Standard Model (SM) gauge theory of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions has so far withstood all the challenges that LEP, HERA and the TEVATRON have been able to pose and the validity of the SM is confirmed --- with the unification of electromagnetism and weak interactions proved and tested to one part per mille. Strong interaction effects have been tested to the per cent level. Flavour phenomena have contributed as much as the gauge principle in shaping the overall structure of the SM and it is the existence of flavours (in both the lepton and quark sectors) that gives the SM its family and generation structure. In the quark sector the SM description of flavour phenomena is as successful as the SM predictions in the gauge sector and the CKM picture of mixing and CP violation is now verified at the few per cent level. However, the observation of neutrino oscillations, and the consequent evidence that neutrinos have mass calls for an extension of the SM and neutrino masses may become a window on physics at the grand unification scale. In 2008, particle physics stands poised at the verge of new and major experimental discoveries as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts to accelerate and collide protons at much higher energies than ever before. The LHC will open up the new territory of TeV scale physics, where the theoretical description of the known particles and interactions breaks down, necessitating the onset of new physics. Ground-breaking discoveries are expected. In particular, the mechanism responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking that is ultimately related to the understanding of the origin of the masses of all elementary particles will manifest itself at the TeV scale. It may give rise to one or more new elementary scalar particles, the Higgs bosons, to a new kind of strong interaction or to other possibly unexpected phenomena. Furthermore, it is expected that experiments at the TeV scale will be sensitive to effects of new physics contributions that stabilise the huge hierarchy between the weak scale and the Planck scale. Prime candidates for physics beyond the SM are supersymmetry, which postulates a symmetry between fermions and bosons and embeds space--time into a ``superspace'', or additional dimensions of space, which may either be very small or even infinitely large. The high energy reach of the LHC will allow the exploration of TeV scale physics. However, the LHC experiments are significantly more complex than any previous particle physics experiment. Identifying the nature of physics at the TeV scale will require intense collaborative efforts between experimentalists and theorists. On the theoretical side, high-precision calculations of SM processes are needed to distinguish possible signals of new physics from SM backgrounds. Possible hints of new physics need to be compared with different models of physics beyond the SM in order to disentangle the underlying structure of TeV-scale physics. The IPPP has already established close connections with the UK and international experimental groups and is perfectly placed to help maximise the UK contribution to understanding the LHC data. Once the energy scale of new physics is identified, there will be a strong effort in planning and designing the next generation of particle physics experiments. The IPPP will continue its role in assessing the physics potential and the design of future accelerators, for example, through membership of the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider, and the International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory. The next decade promises to be pivotal in our understanding of the microscopic world. The IPPP will address fundamental questions about electroweak symmetry breaking, the structure of space-time, flavour physics and CP violation, neutrinos and lepton-flavour violation, and how particle physics connects with astrophysics and cosmology.
Organisations
- Durham University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Universidade de São Paulo (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Zurich (Collaboration)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Collaboration)
- University of Lisbon (Collaboration)
- International School for Advanced Studies (Collaboration)
- University of Michigan (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Collaboration)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Collaboration)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) (Collaboration)
- Tsinghua University China (Collaboration)
- Lomonosov Moscow State University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- DURHAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON (Collaboration)
- University of Valencia (Collaboration)
- Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Tehran (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
Publications
Bandyopadhyay A
(2009)
Physics at a future Neutrino Factory and super-beam facility
in Reports on Progress in Physics
Bellm J
(2015)
Herwig 7.0 / Herwig++ 3.0 Release Note
Bellm J
(2016)
Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note
Bellm J
(2016)
Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note
in The European Physical Journal C
Bellm J
(2016)
Reweighting Parton Showers
Bellm J
(2016)
Recent development in parton shower multijet merging
Bellm J
(2016)
Reweighting parton showers
in Physical Review D
Bellm J
(2018)
Merging NLO multi-jet calculations with improved unitarization
in The European Physical Journal C
Beneke M
(2008)
Four-fermion production near the W pair-production threshold
in Nuclear Physics B
Berger C
(2010)
Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for Z , ? * + 3 -jet distributions at the Tevatron
in Physical Review D
Description | The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) aims to foster world-class research in particle physics phenomenology - the bridge between theory and experiment in the study of the tiny building blocks of all matter in the universe and of the fundamental forces that operate between them. The IPPP is a joint venture of Durham University and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). It is part of the Centre for Particle Theory in Durham, based jointly in the Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Physics. This group are trying to understand what happens when high energy particles are smashed into each other at very high energies and provide the theory and analysis behind a number of experiments to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They are seeking answers to some of the Universe's greatest secrets such as the mysteries surrounding antimatter and dark matter, the possibility of extra space-time dimensions and the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. |
Exploitation Route | Through our research publications, talks at national and international conferences by IPPP staff, numerous workshops, copnferences and schools for graduate students organised by IPPP. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Other |
URL | http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk |
Description | Hiring postdoctoral researchers and support staff, organising research conferences and graduate schools for students, travel to attend conferences to present our results. |
First Year Of Impact | 2000 |
Sector | Other |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | Advanced Fellowship (Heinrich) |
Amount | £316,915 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2008 |
End | 09/2011 |
Description | British Council (Glover) |
Amount | £140,904 (GBP) |
Organisation | British Council |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2007 |
End | 03/2011 |
Description | ESRC (Edwards) |
Amount | £1,926 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2008 |
End | 03/2008 |
Description | EU Monte Carlo network -1 (Richardson) |
Amount | £188,391 (GBP) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2007 |
End | 12/2010 |
Description | EU Monte Carlo network -2 (Richardson) |
Amount | £37,800 (GBP) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2007 |
End | 12/2010 |
Description | EuroNu (Pascoli) |
Amount | £81,758 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 212372 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 08/2008 |
End | 08/2012 |
Description | GriddPP (Glover) |
Amount | £390,187 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2010 |
End | 09/2014 |
Description | HEPDATA |
Amount | £607,822 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2009 |
End | 09/2014 |
Description | LHCPhenoNet (Signer) |
Amount | £438,806 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 264564 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Department | Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2010 |
End | 12/2014 |
Description | Laguna (Pascoli) |
Amount | £26,350 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 212343 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 06/2008 |
End | 06/2011 |
Description | Leverhulme Research Fellowship (Abel) |
Amount | £36,044 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2009 |
End | 09/2011 |
Description | Leverhulme Research Fellowship (VV Khoze) |
Amount | £33,817 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2008 |
End | 09/2010 |
Description | Neutrinos and the Fundamental laws of Nature (Pascoli) |
Amount | £140,904 (GBP) |
Organisation | UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2007 |
End | 09/2011 |
Description | Postdoctoral Fellowship (Smillie) |
Amount | £192,904 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2007 |
End | 09/2010 |
Description | Postdoctoral Fellowship (White) |
Amount | £198,179 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2009 |
End | 09/2011 |
Description | Programme International de Coopération Scientifique (Boehm) |
Amount | £13,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | France |
Start | 01/2009 |
End | 12/2011 |
Description | STFC (Edwards) |
Amount | £13,329 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2008 |
End | 08/2009 |
Description | STFC (Glover) |
Amount | £55,891 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2008 |
End | 08/2011 |
Description | STFC (Glover) |
Amount | £399,671 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2010 |
End | 01/2014 |
Description | STFC (Heinrich) |
Amount | £93,199 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2009 |
End | 09/2010 |
Description | STFC (Richardson) |
Amount | £90,844 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2008 |
End | 09/2009 |
Description | The Royal Society (Martin) |
Amount | £1,056 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2008 |
End | 10/2008 |
Description | The Royal Society (Pascoli) |
Amount | £900 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2007 |
End | 09/2007 |
Description | The Royal Society (Pascoli) |
Amount | £1,192 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2009 |
End | 10/2009 |
Description | The Royal Society (Santoso) |
Amount | £2,020 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2009 |
End | 01/2009 |
Description | The Royal Society (V A Khoze) |
Amount | £1,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2010 |
End | 01/2010 |
Description | The Royal Society(Brein) |
Amount | £490 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2007 |
End | 01/2007 |
Description | Wolfson Merit award |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 01/2021 |
Description | Betabeams |
Organisation | National Institute for Nuclear Physics |
Department | National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Rome |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Betabeams |
Organisation | University of Lisbon |
Country | Portugal |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Betabeams |
Organisation | University of Valencia |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Betabeams |
Organisation | University of Valencia |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Black Hat |
Organisation | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detailed NLO calculations in the Standard Model |
Collaborator Contribution | Detailed NLO calculations in the Standard Model |
Impact | Detailed NLO calculations in the Standard Model, papers |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | Diffraction project and Higgs |
Organisation | Moscow State University |
Department | Physics Department |
Country | Russian Federation |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | research collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | Cited publications |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2010 |
Description | Diffraction project and Higgs |
Organisation | Universidade de São Paulo |
Department | Physics Institute of São Carlos |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | research collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | Cited publications |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2010 |
Description | Indirect probes of leptogenesis |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations and discussions |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Indirect probes of leptogenesis |
Organisation | International School for Advanced Studies |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations and discussions |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Indirect tests and models of Dark Matter |
Organisation | University of Lisbon |
Department | Instituto Superior Tecnico |
Country | Portugal |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Indirect tests and models of Dark Matter |
Organisation | University of Tehran |
Country | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Indirect tests and models of Dark Matter |
Organisation | University of Valencia |
Department | Corpuscular Physics Institute (IFIC) |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Low Energy neutrino factory |
Organisation | Brunel University London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | cited publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Low Energy neutrino factory |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | cited publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Low Energy neutrino factory |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | cited publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Low Energy neutrino factory |
Organisation | University of Valencia |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborations |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | cited publications |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | MCFM Collaboration |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Department | FNAL - Other |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Added results on direct photon production to MCFM code |
Collaborator Contribution | Verified addition of irect photon production to MCFM code |
Impact | Released code MCFM version 8.0 |
Description | MSTW parton distribution functions project |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | research collaboration |
Collaborator Contribution | cited publications |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | MSTW parton distribution functions project |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | research collaboration |
Collaborator Contribution | cited publications |
Impact | publications |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Neutrinoless double beta decay |
Organisation | International School for Advanced Studies |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publication |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Numerical simulations as tests of the early universe |
Organisation | Durham University |
Department | Institute for Computational Cosmology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaborations and discussions |
Collaborator Contribution | collaborations |
Impact | publicatations |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | Numerous Research Collaborations: Particle Phenomenology and Theory |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Theoretical Physics Unit |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Numerous Research Collaborations involing IPPP staff: Theory, Phenomenology and Monte Carlo; only a small selection is typed into this form. |
Collaborator Contribution | Major |
Impact | Numerous Research Collaborations: Particle Physics Theory and Experiment |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | QCD |
Organisation | University of Zurich |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detailed NLO QCD calculations |
Collaborator Contribution | Detailed NLO QCD calculations |
Impact | papers |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Scattering Amplitudes |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Department | School of Physics and Astronomy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | NNLO calculations of Wilson loops and scattering amplitudes in N=4 sypersymmetric Yang-Mills |
Collaborator Contribution | NNLO calculations of Wilson loops and scattering amplitudes in N=4 sypersymmetric Yang-Mills |
Impact | papers |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | Tests of Lepton Number Violation |
Organisation | Tsinghua University China |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publication |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Tests of Lepton Number Violation |
Organisation | University of Michigan |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publication |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Tests of Lepton Number Violation |
Organisation | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Collaborator Contribution | collaboration and discussion |
Impact | publication |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | g-2 |
Organisation | High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | collaborated on publication |
Collaborator Contribution | cited publications |
Impact | na |
Description | g-2 |
Organisation | University of Liverpool |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | collaborated on publication |
Collaborator Contribution | cited publications |
Impact | na |
Description | Cafe Scentifique (various) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | audience average of 100 with question and answer session Widening science participation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2009,2010 |
Description | Cleveland Science Institute, Teesside University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | audience approximately 120 people with question and answer session Bringing science to a wider audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Italian Physics Olympiads |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Key note talk na |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Particle Physics Masterclass |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 220 pupils and teachers attended physics talks which resulted in questions and discussions schools use the masterclass to help with subject areas and encourage science participation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 |
Description | School Visit (Various) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | average of 40 pupils with up to 30 school visits per year. Talks, questions and answer sessions. Schools use these sessions to encourage science participation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 |