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
Burckhart-Chromek, D.
(2006)
Testing on a large scale: Running the ATLAS data acquisition and high level trigger software on 700 PC nodes
Brau James, (Ed.)
(2008)
ILC Reference Design Report: ILC Global Design Effort and World Wide Study
Boyd J
(2008)
The ATLAS trigger - commissioning with cosmic rays
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Behnke Ties, (Ed.)
(2008)
ILC Reference Design Report Volume 4 - Detectors
Barisonzi, M.
(2010)
Triggering top quark events
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, Bernard
(2006)
Evidence for the $B^0 \to \rho^0 \rho^0$ decay and implications for the CKM angle a
Aubert, Bernard
(2006)
Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Charm Decays
Aubert, Bernard
(2007)
Measurement of the decay $B^- \to$ D*0 $e^- \bar\nu$