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
Chekanov S
(2010)
Measurement of J/? photoproduction at large momentum transfer at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2010)
Search for new particles in two-jet final states in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Improved search for a Higgs boson produced in association with Z ? l+ l- in pp collisions sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Chekanov S
(2010)
Measurement of isolated photon production in deep inelastic ep scattering
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of the W+ W- production cross section and search for anomalous WW? and WWZ couplings in pp collisions at square root(s)=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Barr A
(2010)
A review of the mass measurement techniques proposed for the Large Hadron Collider
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Aad G
(2010)
Performance of the ATLAS detector using first collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Rubin P
(2010)
Search for rare and forbidden decays of charm and charmed-strange mesons to final states h ± e ± e +
in Physical Review D
Aharmim B
(2010)
Low-energy-threshold analysis of the Phase I and Phase II data sets of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
in Physical Review C
Aaltonen T
(2010)
First measurement of the b-jet cross section in events with a W boson in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for new bottomlike quark pair decays QQ-->(tW(+)(-))(tW(+)(-)in same-charge dilepton events.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Direct Top-Quark Width Measurement at CDF
in Physical Review Letters
Asner D
(2010)
Measurement of absolute branching fractions of inclusive semileptonic decays of charm and charmed-strange mesons
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2010)
Drift Time Measurement in the ATLAS Liquid Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter using Cosmic Muons
in The European Physical Journal C
Damerell C
(2010)
First results with prototype ISIS devices for ILC vertex detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for the Higgs boson using neural networks in events with missing energy and b-quark jets in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for R-parity violating decays of sneutrinos to eµ, µt, and et pairs in pp collisions at square root s = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of the WW + WZ production cross section using the lepton + jets final state at CDF II.
in Physical review letters
Cronin-Hennessy D
(2010)
Search for ? ( 2 S ) ? ? ? c ( 2 S ) via fully reconstructed ? c ( 2 S ) decays
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode.
in Physical review letters
Aaron F
(2010)
Combined measurement and QCD analysis of the inclusive e ± p scattering cross sections at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Onyisi P
(2010)
Branching fractions for ? c J ? p p ¯ p 0 , p p ¯ ? , and p p ¯ ?
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the dilepton decay channel in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Briere R
(2010)
Analysis of D + ? K - p + e + ? e and D + ? K - p + µ + + ? µ semileptonic decays
in Physical Review D
Chekanov S
(2010)
Measurement of dijet photoproduction for events with a leading neutron at HERA
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurement of W-boson polarization in Top-Quark Decay in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2010)
Prompt K S 0 production in pp collisions at s = 0.9 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Beck G
(2010)
Analytic model of thermal runaway in silicon detectors
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking in diphoton events with missing transverse energy at CDF II.
in Physical review letters
Abramowicz H
(2010)
Scaled momentum spectra in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
De Roeck A
(2010)
From the LHC to future colliders CERN Theory Institute summary report
in The European Physical Journal C
Aharmim B
(2010)
SEARCHES FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS IN THE 8 B SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUX AT THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY
in The Astrophysical Journal
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Measurements of the top-quark mass using charged particle tracking
in Physical Review D
Alexander J
(2010)
Study of ? ( 2 S ) decays to ? p p ¯ , p 0 p p ¯ , and ? p p ¯ , and search for p p ¯ threshold enhancements
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for WW and WZ resonances decaying to electron, missing E(T), and two jets in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Antonelli M
(2010)
Flavor physics in the quark sector
in Physics Reports
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for pair production of supersymmetric top quarks in dilepton events from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Bonvicini G
(2010)
Measurement of the ? b ( 1 S ) mass and the branching fraction for ? ( 3 S ) ? ? ? b ( 1 S )
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for technicolor particles produced in association with a W Boson at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Diffractive W and Z production at the Fermilab Tevatron
in Physical Review D
Adamson P
(2010)
Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS far detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2010)
Measurement of the W ? l? and Z/? * ? ll production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7\;{\text{TeV}} $ with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abramowicz H
(2010)
Measurement of high-Q 2 charged current deep inelastic scattering cross sections with a longitudinally polarised positron beam at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Boudjemline K
(2010)
The calibration of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory using uniformly distributed radioactive sources
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for the production of scalar bottom quarks in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Nakamura K
(2010)
Review of Particle Physics
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Aad G
(2010)
Observation of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in lead-lead collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] =2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Aaron F
(2010)
Events with an isolated lepton and missing transverse momentum and measurement of W production at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2010)
Measurement of s ( p p ? b b ¯ X ) at s = 7 TeV in the forward region
in Physics Letters B
Insler J
(2010)
Search for the decay J / ? ? ? + invisible
in Physical Review D
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 |