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
Abramowicz H
(2011)
Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA using decays into electrons
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for New T' particles in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse energy in p p collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for B s 0 ? µ + µ - and B 0 ? µ + µ - Decays with CDF II
in Physical Review Letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for new phenomena in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum using $\sqrt {s}$ = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for B s 0 ? µ + µ - and B 0 ? µ + µ - Decays with CDF II
in Physical Review Letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in exclusive decays containing a J/? in pp collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Barr A
(2011)
Guide to transverse projections and mass-constraining variables
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2011)
First observation of B s 0 ? J / ? f 0 ( 980 ) decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of event shapes in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
First search for multijet resonances in sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV pp collisions.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for quark contact interactions in dijet angular distributions in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the transverse momentum distribution of Z / ? ? bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aharmim B
(2011)
LOW-MULTIPLICITY BURST SEARCH AT THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY
in The Astrophysical Journal
Aad G
(2011)
Search for a standard model Higgs boson in the H?ZZ?l(+)l(-)?? decay channel with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon
in Astroparticle Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse energy in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2011)
Determination of f(s)/f(d) for 7 TeV pp collisions and measurement of the B0?D-K+ branching fraction.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton + jets channel using the lepton transverse momentum
in Physics Letters B
Pedlar TK
(2011)
Observation of the h(c)(1P) Using e+ e- collisions above the DD threshold.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
Measurement of the underground atmospheric muon charge ratio using the MINOS Near Detector
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Evidence for t t ¯ ? production and measurement of s t t ¯ ? / s t t ¯
in Physical Review D
Thorpe M
(2011)
The T2K Near Detector Data Acquisition Systems
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for new physics in high pT like-sign dilepton events at CDF II.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Observation of the baryonic flavor-changing neutral current decay ?b(0)??µ+µ-.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for massive long-lived highly ionising particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Abdesselam A
(2011)
Boosted objects: a probe of beyond the standard model physics
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for high mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters B
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
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Search for new heavy particles decaying to Z Z ? l l l l , l l j j in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the production cross section for W-bosons in association with jets in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Ahmed Z
(2011)
Combined limits on WIMPs from the CDMS and EDELWEISS experiments
in Physical Review D
Besson D
(2011)
? ( 1 S ) ? ? f 2 ' ( 1525 ) ; f 2 ' ( 1525 ) ? K S 0 K S 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Martin L
(2011)
Search for the decay D s + ? ? e + ?
in Physical Review D
Abdallah J
(2011)
A study of the b-quark fragmentation function with the DELPHI detector at LEP I and an averaged distribution obtained at the Z Pole
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of the top-quark mass in the lepton+jets channel using a matrix element technique with the CDF II detector
in Physical Review D
Barr A
(2011)
Comment on "Amplification of endpoint structure for new particle mass measurement at the LHC"
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the inclusive and dijet cross-sections of b-jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\mbox{~TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for an excess of events with an identical flavour lepton pair and significant missing transverse momentum in $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse energy with 36 pb-1 of 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
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
Aaltonen T
(2011)
Measurement of the t t ¯ production cross section in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV using events with large missing transverse energy and jets
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2011)
The T2K experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Measurements of underlying-event properties using neutral and charged particles in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=900$ GeV and $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
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
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 |