Experimental Particle Physics Rolling Grant 2009-2014
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The Particle Physics Group at Manchester University will continue to probe the fundamental particles and forces of nature. This is done by several experiments: ATLAS at the LHC at CERN will study proton-proton collisions at the highest energies yet, and is expected to reveal a wealth of new particles. LHCb will reveal further details of the properties of B hadrons. Dzero is at Fermilab, which is presently the highest energy collider till the LHC starts. SuperNemo will search for a type of nuclear beta decay which, if found, would show that the neutrino is its own antiparticle. We also run an ongoing R and D programme for the detectors, electronics, accelerators and computers we use for our investigations into fundamental physics.
Organisations
Publications
Collaboration T
(2010)
Construction and commissioning of the CALICE analog hadron calorimeter prototype
in Journal of Instrumentation
Albrow M
(2009)
The FP420 R&D project: Higgs and New Physics with forward protons at the LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Boyd J
(2008)
The ATLAS trigger - commissioning with cosmic rays
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
ATLAS Collaboration
(2011)
Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross-section at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Nature communications
Aad G
(2011)
Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in New Journal of Physics
Bailey D
(2009)
The LCFIVertex package: Vertexing, flavour tagging and vertex charge reconstruction with an ILC vertex detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abazov V
(2009)
A novel method for modeling the recoil in W boson events at hadron colliders
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
DaVia C
(2009)
The geometrical dependence of radiation hardness in planar and 3D silicon detectors
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abazov V
(2010)
b-Jet identification in the D0 experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Argyriades J
(2009)
Measurement of the background in the NEMO 3 double beta decay experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment