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
Aubert B
(2009)
Evidence for X(3872)-->psi(2S)gamma in B(+/-)-->X(3872)K(+/-) decays and a study of B-->cc[over ]gammaK.
in Physical review letters
Aubert B
(2009)
Improved measurement of B+ --> rho+ rho0 and determination of the quark-mixing phase angle alpha.
in Physical review letters
Aubert, Bernard
(2009)
Search for a Narrow Resonance in e+e- to Four Lepton Final States
Aubert, Bernard
(2009)
Search for Dimuon Decays of a Light Scalar in Radiative Transitions tau(3S) - gamma A0
Abazov VM
(2009)
Search for large extra spatial dimensions in the dielectron and diphoton channels in pp[over ] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Argyriades J
(2009)
Measurement of the double- ß decay half-life of Nd 150 and search for neutrinoless decay modes with the NEMO-3 detector
in Physical Review C
Aubert B
(2009)
Measurement of the B + ? ? l + ? and B + ? ? l + ? branching fractions
in Physical Review D
Aubert B
(2009)
Measurement of the ? ? * ? p 0 transition form factor
in Physical Review D
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
Aubert B
(2009)
Constraints on the CKM angle ? in B 0 ? D ¯ 0 K * 0 and B 0 ? D 0 K * 0 from a Dalitz analysis of D 0 and D ¯ 0 decays to K S p + p -
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2009)
Relative rates of B meson decays into ? ( 2 S ) and J / ? mesons
in Physical Review D
Aubert B
(2009)
Measurements of the semileptonic decays B ¯ ? D l ? ¯ and B ¯ ? D * l ? ¯ using a global fit to D X l ? ¯ final states
in Physical Review D
Aubert B
(2009)
Direct CP, lepton flavor, and isospin asymmetries in the decays B-->K(*)l+l-.
in Physical review letters
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
Abazov V
(2009)
Search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of top quarks
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2009)
Search for pair production of first-generation leptoquarks in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aubert B
(2009)
Search for b ? u transitions in B 0 ? D 0 K * 0 decays
in Physical Review D
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
Aubert B
(2009)
Precise measurement of the e+e- --> pi+pi-(gamma) cross section with the initial state radiation method at BABAR.
in Physical review letters
Abazov V
(2009)
Search for squark production in events with jets, hadronically decaying tau leptons and missing transverse energy at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abazov VM
(2009)
Measurement of the WW production cross section with dilepton final states in pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV and limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings.
in Physical review letters
Aubert B
(2009)
Measurement of B-->K{*}(892)gamma branching fractions and CP and Isospin asymmetries.
in Physical review letters
Abazov V
(2009)
Evidence of W W and W Z Production with lepton + jets Final States in p p ¯ Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
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
Abazov VM
(2009)
Observation of single top-quark production.
in Physical review letters