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
Aad G
(2012)
Search for top and bottom squarks from gluino pair production in final states with missing transverse energy and at least three b-jets with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2014)
Search for top quark decays t ? qH with H ? ?? using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for W Z + Z Z production with missing transverse energy + jets with b enhancement at s = 1.96 TeV
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
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
Aharmim B
(2010)
SEARCHES FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS IN THE 8 B SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUX AT THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY
in The Astrophysical Journal
Aaij R
(2012)
Searches for Majorana neutrinos in B - decays
in Physical Review D
Kraml S
(2012)
Searches for new physics: Les Houches recommendations for the presentation of LHC results
in The European Physical Journal C
Barr A
(2011)
Speedy Higgs boson discovery in decays to tau lepton pairs: h ? tt
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Studies of beauty baryon decays to D 0 p h - and ? c + h - final states
in Physical Review D
Yelton J
(2011)
Studies of D + ? { ? ' , ? , ? } e + ? e
in Physical Review D
Insler J
(2012)
Studies of the decays D 0 ? K S 0 K - p + and D 0 ? K S 0 K + p -
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of $$\upchi _{ {\mathrm {b}}}$$ ? b meson production in $$\mathrm {p} $$ p $$\mathrm {p} $$ p collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7 and $$8{\mathrm {\,TeV}} $$ 8 TeV and observation of the decay $$\upchi _{ {\mathrm {b}}}\mathrm {(3P)} \rightarrow \Upsilon \mathrm {(3S)} {\upgamma } $$ ? b ( 3 P ) ? ? ( 3 S ) ?
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of ? $$ \varUpsilon $$ production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{NN}} $$ = 5 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of Beauty Hadron Decays into Pairs of Charm Hadrons
in Physical Review Letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of forward Z + jet production in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Study of heavy-flavor quarks produced in association with top-quark pairs at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of J/? production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at $ \sqrt{ {{s_{NN }}}} $ = 5 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Study of jet shapes in inclusive jet production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Study of jets produced in association with a W boson in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Study of orbitally excited B mesons and evidence for a new B p resonance
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Study of substructure of high transverse momentum jets produced in proton-antiproton collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Levy A
(2011)
Study of taupair production at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Study of the associated production of photons and b -quark jets in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abdallah J
(2010)
Study of the dependence of direct soft photon production on the jet characteristics in hadronic Z 0 decays
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of the kinematic dependences of ? b 0 production in pp collisions and a measurement of the ? b 0 ? ? c + p - branching fraction
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Study of top quark production and decays involving a tau lepton at CDF and limits on a charged Higgs boson contribution
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Studying the underlying event in Drell-Yan and high transverse momentum jet production at the Tevatron
in Physical Review D
WEBER A
(2012)
T2K: A LONG-BASELINE EXPERIMENT TO STUDY NEUTRINOS
in Modern Physics Letters A
Aaij R
(2014)
Test of lepton universality using b+ ? K+l+l- decays.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2010)
The ATLAS Inner Detector commissioning and calibration
in The European Physical Journal C
Bates R
(2012)
The ATLAS SCT grounding and shielding concept and implementation
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2010)
The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
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
Jochum J
(2011)
The CRESST dark matter search
in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
The differential production cross section of the [Formula: see text](1020) meson in [Formula: see text] = 7 TeV [Formula: see text] collisions measured with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Cooper-Sarkar A
(2011)
The high energy neutrino cross-section in the Standard Model and its uncertainty
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Borgia A
(2014)
The magnetic distortion calibration system of the LHCb RICH1 detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Agarwalla S
(2014)
The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Bogomilov M
(2012)
The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
in Journal of Instrumentation
Ryder N
(2011)
The radiation hardness and temperature stability of Planar Light-wave Circuit splitters for the High Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abe K
(2011)
The T2K experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Assylbekov S
(2012)
The T2K ND280 off-axis pi-zero detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Thorpe M
(2011)
The T2K Near Detector Data Acquisition Systems
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Aoki S
(2013)
The T2K Side Muon Range Detector (SMRD)
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Devetak E
(2011)
Top quark anomalous couplings at the International Linear Collider
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 |