The study of elementary particles and their interactions
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This grant is to continue the groups programme of investigation into the properties of elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature. One of the main objectives of this grant will be to support the exploitation of three new experiments which will start taking data during the period of this grant. The CMS experiment will break new ground in studying the constituents of matter and their interactions, hoping to observe the Higgs particle and understand the origins of mass, as well as searching for new phenomena, such as finding evidence of potential dark matter candidates. The LHCb experiment will offer complementary tests of the Standard Model with the ability to look for extremely rare decays in flavour physics which are sensitive to contributions from new physics, as well as measuring CP violation in the decays of B mesons. Both these experiments will make extensive use of Grid computing which the group will continue to develop and exploit. The T2K experiment will allow us to expand our understanding of the masses and mixings in the neutrino sector, and should provide a key measurement which will guide us as to whether we ultimately could see evidence of CP violation in the neutrino sector. Follow on experiments looking to measure CP violation in neutrinos would require a dedicate neutrino factory, and the group is heavily involved in understanding the issues in preparing an accelerator for such a facility. One of the other missing pieces of the neutrino puzzle is whether the neutrino is its own anti-particle. This grant will support preparation of a future experiment to attempt to determine if the neutrino is a Majorana particle. The universe may be largely composed of Dark Matter which until now remains un-detected. The group will continue is activity in searching for direct evidence of a dark matter candidate. Accelerators which are used in particle physics also have potential applications for energy, and healthcare, and the group will continue its research into how to apply techniques which have benefit for future research accelerators as well as applied use of accelerators. The group will also be active in preparing the next generation of detectors for future facilities, both at the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC, as well as for other future colliders.
Organisations
Publications
Aymar G
(2020)
LhARA: The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications
in Frontiers in Physics
Bayliss V
(2019)
The liquid-hydrogen absorber for MICE
in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Abi B
(2020)
Volume I. Introduction to DUNE
in Journal of Instrumentation
Asfandiyarov R
(2019)
MAUS: the MICE analysis user software
in Journal of Instrumentation
Stowell P
(2017)
NUISANCE: a neutrino cross-section generator tuning and comparison framework
in Journal of Instrumentation
Bayliss V
(2018)
The liquid-hydrogen absorber for MICE
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abe K
(2019)
Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
MICE Collaboration
(2020)
Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment.
in Nature
T2K Collaboration
(2020)
Constraint on the matter-antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations.
in Nature
Nakazawa Y
(2020)
Radiation hardness study for the COMET Phase-I electronics
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Arnold R
(2020)
Search for the double-beta decay of 82Se to the excited states of 82Kr with NEMO-3
in Nuclear Physics A
Kurup A
(2019)
Simulation of a radiobiology facility for the Centre for the Clinical Application of Particles.
in Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Edmonds A
(2022)
Measurement of proton, deuteron, triton, and a particle emission after nuclear muon capture on Al, Si, and Ti with the AlCap experiment
in Physical Review C
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
Abe K
(2020)
First measurement of the charged current ? ¯ µ double differential cross section on a water target without pions in the final state
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2019)
Search for heavy neutrinos with the T2K near detector ND280
in Physical Review D
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
Abe K
(2017)
Search for Lorentz and C P T violation using sidereal time dependence of neutrino flavor transitions over a short baseline
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2017)
Updated T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 1.5 × 1 0 21 protons on target
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2016)
Upper bound on neutrino mass based on T2K neutrino timing measurements
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2018)
Measurement of the single p 0 production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2021)
Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with 3.13 × 10 21 protons on target
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2020)
Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling from t t ¯ kinematic distributions in the dilepton final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2020)
First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2020)
Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance in a Long-Baseline Muon Antineutrino Beam.
in Physical review letters
Kachulis C
(2018)
Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting with Electrons in Super-Kamiokande.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2017)
Combined Analysis of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations at T2K.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for heavy resonances decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in final states with charged leptons, neutrinos, and b quarks
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Measurement of B s 0 meson production in pp and PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Zuber K
(2020)
COMET Phase-I technical design report
in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Hagiwara K
(2019)
Search for Astronomical Neutrinos from Blazar TXS 0506+056 in Super-Kamiokande
in The Astrophysical Journal
Simpson C
(2019)
Sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium to Low Energy Antineutrinos from Pre-supernova Emission
in The Astrophysical Journal
Long K
(2018)
Neutrinos from Stored Muons
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