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)
Search for new color-octet vector particle decaying to t t ¯ in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sopczak A
(2010)
Comparison of Measurements of Charge Transfer Inefficiencies in a CCD With High-Speed Column Parallel Readout
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Lang R
(2010)
Discrimination of recoil backgrounds in scintillating calorimeters
in Astroparticle Physics
Aad G
(2010)
The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Search for anomalous production of events with two photons and additional energetic objects at CDF
in Physical Review D
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
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
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
Malde S
(2011)
D 0 - D ¯ 0 mixing studies with the decays D 0 ? K S 0 K ± p ±
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurements of direct CP violating asymmetries in charmless decays of strange bottom mesons and bottom baryons.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS.
in Physical review letters
Lowrey N
(2011)
Analysis of the decay D 0 ? K S 0 p 0 p 0
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings in Z? events from pp¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in New Journal of Physics
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the B?K*µ(+)µ(-) decay and first observation of the B(s)0??µ(+)µ(-) decay.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
First direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for a very light CP-odd Higgs boson in top quark decays from pp collisions at sqrt(s)]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of polarization and search for CP violation in B(s)0?ff decays.
in Physical review letters
Viehhauser G
(2011)
Evaporative cooling in ATLAS-Present and future
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
Jochum J
(2011)
The CRESST dark matter search
in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Corner, L. And Delerue, N. And Foster, B. And Howell, D. And Newman, M. And Others
(2011)
Micron Scale Laser-Wire Scanner for the ATF
in ICFA Beam Dyn.Newslett.
Aaij R
(2011)
Search for the rare decays B s 0 ? µ + µ - and B 0 ? µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for a new heavy gauge boson W ' with event signature electron + missing transverse energy in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the lepton + jets channel using a jet flavor discriminant
in Physical Review D
Kornicer M
(2011)
Measurements of branching fractions for electromagnetic transitions involving the ? b J ( 1 P ) states
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Search for contact interactions in dimuon events from p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2011)
Measurement of the inclusive ? cross-section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2011)
Search for C P violation in D + ? K - K + p + decays
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for a heavy toplike quark in pp collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
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
Adamson P
(2011)
Improved Search for Muon-Neutrino to Electron-Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS
in Physical Review Letters
Abat E
(2011)
A layer correlation technique for pion energy calibration at the 2004 ATLAS Combined Beam Test
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurements of the properties of ? c ( 2595 ) , ? c ( 2625 ) , S c ( 2455 ) , and S c ( 2520 ) baryons
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Observation of B s 0 ? J / ? K * ( 892 ) 0 and B s 0 ? J / ? K S 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the W charge asymmetry in the W ? µ ? decay mode in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H ? Z Z ( ? ) ? 4 l with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Alabau-Gonzalvo, J. And Others
(2011)
ATF2 summary and status
in ICFA Beam Dyn.Newslett.
Aaij R
(2011)
First observation of B ¯ s 0 ? D s 2 ? + X µ - ? ¯ decays
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of dijet production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7 $ TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Top quark mass measurement using the template method at CDF
in Physical Review D
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
ATLAS Collaboration
(2011)
Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross-section at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Nature communications
Abat E
(2011)
Photon reconstruction in the ATLAS Inner Detector and Liquid Argon Barrel Calorimeter at the 2004 Combined Test Beam
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for the Higgs boson in the all-hadronic final state using the CDF II detector
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurements of branching fraction ratios and C P -asymmetries in suppressed B - ? D ( ? K + p - ) K - and B - ? D ( ? K + p - ) p - decays
in Physical Review D
Barr A
(2011)
Speedy Higgs boson discovery in decays to tau lepton pairs: h ? tt
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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 |