Particle Physics Rolling Grant 2009
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
Particle physics attempts to understand the Universe and its evolution in terms of the interplay of a small number of fundamental forces and particles. The last thirty years has seen the development of a robust and extremely successful theoretical framework, known as the Standard Model, in which all available data can be explained. However, this model is demonstrably incomplete and has many parameters that must be inserted by hand. Our proposed progamme will significantly advance our understanding of whatever theory must be constructed to replace the Standard Model. Our collaboration in the SNO experiment has been a major contributor to our understanding of the phenomenon of neutrino mass, originally outside the Standard Model. As SNO draws to an end, we will continue our neutrino investigations with a leading role in the MINOS experiment and the next generation experiment based in Japan, T2K. We plan to measure other fundamental properties of the neutrino, such as whether or not it is its own antiparticle - a Majorana or a Dirac neutrino - by utilising our unique experience with the SNO experiment and its underground laboratory. The CDF experiment is coming to the end of its life as LHC takes over the energy frontier, but we intend to continue our important contributions to the remaining running and in the exploitation of the full data sample to produce papers. The ZEUS experiment has now completed data taking; we are determined to play a major part in bringing these classic results on the structure of the proton, and the strong interaction, to publication. These results are likely to remain in the text-books for many years. After the disappointment of the failure of the LHC in 2008, repairs are well under way and the LHC experiments will come on line during the period of this Rolling Grant. We will ensure that Oxford plays a major role in the extraction of physics results from ATLAS and LHCb, which have the potential to completely revolutionise our understanding of particle physics. We are committed to providing the computing resources and analysis tools necessary for the extraction of these results, and our work in ensuring that Grid concepts and technology are available to the wider academic and business community will continue. The CRESST-II and cryo-EDM experiments will use technologies in which Oxford has a world lead to explore some of the most important questions in particle physics and cosmology; in particular the nature off the material that appears to make up most of the Universe. The spokesman of a major new initiative in this area, EURECA, is from Oxford, so that we will continue our leading role in the search for Dark Matter. The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science has major programmes in the accelerators of the future, including Linear Colliders and the Neutrino Factory. The JAI has established itself as a world-class institute in accelerator physics under the leadership of Professor Peach; we are starting the search for a world-class accelerator scientist to be his successor. We are also providing leaders in international bodies charged with the development of new accelerators. We will continue to develop and enhance our capabilities in mechanical and electronics design so that Oxford will retain the ability to construct the most sophisticated apparatus of whatever size is required for the physics objectives. We are determined to play a leading role in world particle physics in the future, as we have in the past.
Organisations
Publications
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Exclusion of an exotic top quark with -4/3 electric charge using soft lepton tagging.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Observation of a new ?(b) state in radiative transitions to ?(1S) and ?(2S) at ATLAS.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for a heavy particle decaying into an electron and a muon with the ATLAS detector in sqrt[s] = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of Z boson production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Search for magnetic monopoles in sqrt[s]=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Test of lepton universality using b+ ? K+l+l- decays.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2014)
Combined analysis of ?µ disappearance and ?µ??e appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with no charged leptons and large missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking in diphoton events with missing transverse energy at CDF II.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in vs=7 TeV pp collisions.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2010)
Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with the MINOS far detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Top quark mass measurement in the lepton + jets channel using a matrix element method and in situ jet energy calibration.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First evidence for the decay B(s)(0)?µ+ µ-.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2012)
Improved measurement of muon antineutrino disappearance in MINOS.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for heavy bottomlike quarks decaying to an electron or muon and jets in pp collisions at vs = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Boogert S
(2010)
Micron-scale laser-wire scanner for the KEK Accelerator Test Facility extraction line
in Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new resonances in W? and Z? final states in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for FCNC single top-quark production at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel
in Physics Letters B
Chekanov S
(2010)
Measurement of isolated photon production in deep inelastic ep scattering
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new phenomena in photon + jet events collected in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the t-channel single top-quark production cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the ratio of the ? b 0 to B ¯ 0 lifetimes
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the flavour-specific CP-violating asymmetry a sl s in B s 0 decays
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H ? W W ( ? ) ? l ? l ? decay mode with 4.7 fb - 1 of ATLAS data at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to t + t - pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for WZ resonances in the fully leptonic channel using pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton + jets channel using the lepton transverse momentum
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for contact interactions in dilepton events from pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation in the decay D + ? p - p + p +
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of d s / d y of Drell-Yan e + e - pairs in the Z mass region from p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of the D s + - D s - production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV in dilepton final states with ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
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
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for the decay D 0 ? p + p - µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Libby J
(2014)
New determination of the D 0 ? K - p + p 0 and D 0 ? K - p + p + p - coherence factors and average strong-phase differences
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to µ + µ - with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Barr A
(2012)
Finding heavy Higgs bosons heavier than 2 m W in dileptonic W-boson decays
in Physics Letters B
Description | Media interviews and articles |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Members of staff supported on this grant give interviews regularly to radio, newspapers and magazine. There are too many examples to list separately, but include BBC Radios 3 and 4, Irish Radio, Radio New Zealand, Research Fortnight, Nature, New Scientist, etc. General impact of public and opinion formers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Particle Physics Masterclass |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Teachers bring groups of pupils to a concentrated 1-day event in which they hear the latest news from particle physics, get involved with hands-on activities and interact with academic staff. Interacts with students and teachers - the classes are always full, we run 2 separate days and each year we reach more than 100 pupils and teachers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 |
Description | Schools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Visits by researchers to schools to give talks about LHC, neutrinos and other areas of particle physics Around 100 schools visited by various members of staff since 2006. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Teachers Open Day in Accelerators and Particle Physics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Teachers spent the day in Oxford having a refresher course on the latest research results in accelerator science and particle physics. Interaction with many physics teachers in schools. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |