Bristol Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2012-17
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The University of Bristol proposes to carry out research into the fundamental laws of space, time, matter and force. The current theoretical description of physics at the smallest scales, the Standard Model, is known not to hold at energies greater than around 1TeV. By carrying out experiments at particle colliders, we will observe how and when the Standard Model breaks down; discover new models which accurate describe physics at these scales; measure the parameters of these models; and investigate their significance for cosmology and the study of the large-scale universe. This work will be carried out using a wide range of different experiments and studies.
The experimental data supporting this programme will be obtained using the CMS and LHCb experiments at the CERN LHC, and the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS. We will use these detectors to work both at the energy frontier, with sensitivity to new heavy particles, and the precision frontier, comparing the largest ever experimental data sets with the predictions of the Standard Model. Having built important components of these experiments, we will continue to operate and maintain the apparatus, and design and install upgraded equipment to further enhance their capabilities.
We will design and construct new particle detectors and instruments, optimised for sensitivity, performance and cost. Along with new techniques we will develop in computing and data analysis, this technology will be used in the future to build new experiments at future colliders, and to solve practical problems in the security, medical and environmental sectors.
The results of our research will be publicised via talks, media involvement and events, in order to enhance public understanding and appreciation of science. We will engage with schools wherever possible, in order to ensure the continued take-up of science subjects at school and university level.
The experimental data supporting this programme will be obtained using the CMS and LHCb experiments at the CERN LHC, and the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS. We will use these detectors to work both at the energy frontier, with sensitivity to new heavy particles, and the precision frontier, comparing the largest ever experimental data sets with the predictions of the Standard Model. Having built important components of these experiments, we will continue to operate and maintain the apparatus, and design and install upgraded equipment to further enhance their capabilities.
We will design and construct new particle detectors and instruments, optimised for sensitivity, performance and cost. Along with new techniques we will develop in computing and data analysis, this technology will be used in the future to build new experiments at future colliders, and to solve practical problems in the security, medical and environmental sectors.
The results of our research will be publicised via talks, media involvement and events, in order to enhance public understanding and appreciation of science. We will engage with schools wherever possible, in order to ensure the continued take-up of science subjects at school and university level.
Planned Impact
The key beneficiaries of the proposed research programme, and the benefits they are likely to obtain, can be classified as follows:
- The results obtained and techniques developed in this programme will be of direct benefit in the international fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and astronomy. The research outputs will directly address outstanding questions in these fields.
- Other academic disciplines will benefit directly and indirectly through access to instruments and techniques developed in this research programme. There is also potential impact upon private-sector companies for commercialisation of detector and computing technology. Examples of areas where impact has already been demonstrated include the security and medical instrumentation sectors. UK industry will also benefit through contracts for specialized detectors and electronic / mechanical assemblies.
- The results from high-profile particle physics experiments provide both a significant cultural impact for the general public, and an impact on the science agenda of national and regional government. Engagement of both the general public and policy makers is an explicit aim of this programme, with routes detailed in the pathways to impact document.
- There is a particular impact upon schools and universities, due to the postitive effect of experimental particle physics upon take up of science courses at GCSE, A-Level and degree levels. The results obtained as part of this research programme will help to continue the 'LHC effect', with physics becoming an increasingly popular subject.
- The technological and organisational demands of experimental particle physics have a demonstrated impact upon culture and best practice in universities and academia in general, and will continue to do so. For instance, through the move to open electronic repositories and open publishing; through the use of networking and distributed research in many disciplines; and through well planned and high profile public engagement exercises.
- The results obtained and techniques developed in this programme will be of direct benefit in the international fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and astronomy. The research outputs will directly address outstanding questions in these fields.
- Other academic disciplines will benefit directly and indirectly through access to instruments and techniques developed in this research programme. There is also potential impact upon private-sector companies for commercialisation of detector and computing technology. Examples of areas where impact has already been demonstrated include the security and medical instrumentation sectors. UK industry will also benefit through contracts for specialized detectors and electronic / mechanical assemblies.
- The results from high-profile particle physics experiments provide both a significant cultural impact for the general public, and an impact on the science agenda of national and regional government. Engagement of both the general public and policy makers is an explicit aim of this programme, with routes detailed in the pathways to impact document.
- There is a particular impact upon schools and universities, due to the postitive effect of experimental particle physics upon take up of science courses at GCSE, A-Level and degree levels. The results obtained as part of this research programme will help to continue the 'LHC effect', with physics becoming an increasingly popular subject.
- The technological and organisational demands of experimental particle physics have a demonstrated impact upon culture and best practice in universities and academia in general, and will continue to do so. For instance, through the move to open electronic repositories and open publishing; through the use of networking and distributed research in many disciplines; and through well planned and high profile public engagement exercises.
Organisations
Publications
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decays B ¯ ( s ) 0 ? D s + K - p + p - and B ¯ s 0 ? D s 1 ( 2536 ) + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decays B(0) ? D(+)K(-)p(+)p(-) and B(-) ? D(0)K(-)p(+)p(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
First observation of top quark production in the forward region.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First observations of B ¯ s 0 ? D + D - , D s + D - and D 0 D ¯ 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
First observations of the rare decays B + ? K + p + p - µ + µ - and B +? ?K + µ + µ -
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Price T
(2013)
First radiation hardness results of the TeraPixel Active Calorimeter (TPAC) sensor
in Journal of Instrumentation
Pedraza-Morales M
(2016)
First results of CMS RPC performance at 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Basegmez Du Pree S
(2016)
First Run 2 Searches for Exotica at CMS
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Mylroie-Smith J
(2013)
First tests of CHERWELL, a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor: A CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) using 180nm technology
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Kim T
(2014)
Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in top production and decay at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Sharma M
(2014)
Flow and Correlations in PbPb and pPb Collisions from CMS Experiment
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Tu Z
(2016)
Flow of strange and charged particles in pPb and PbPb collisions at LHC energies
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Quittnat M
(2015)
FLUKA studies of hadron-irradiated scintillating crystals for calorimetry at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Gunnellini P
(2016)
Forward and small-x physics at CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Brona G
(2013)
Forward Jets, Dijet Correlations at Large Rapidity Separation and Forward Energy Flow at the LHC
in Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement
Brona G
(2014)
Forward Physics at CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Sen S
(2013)
Forward Physics Results from ATLAS and CMS
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Aaij R
(2015)
Forward production of ? mesons in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Albrow M
(2014)
Forward shower counters for diffractive physics at the LHC
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in pp collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Skinnari L
(2016)
FPGA-Based Approach to Level-1 Track Finding at CMS for the HL-LHC
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Baty A
(2016)
Fragmentation patterns of jets in pPb collisions in CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Bernard-Schwarz M
(2013)
Future silicon sensors for the CMS Tracker Upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Pompili A
(2016)
GPUs for statistical data analysis in HEP: a performance study of GooFit on GPUs vs. RooFit on CPUs
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Maguire C
(2013)
Hadron Correlations in CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Roy D
(2016)
Hadronic event shapes in pp collisions at 7 TeV
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Cerci D
(2014)
Hadronic results from CMS experiment at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Cieri D
(2016)
Hardware Demonstrator of a Level-1 Track Finding Algorithm with FPGAs for the Phase II CMS Experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Kim H
(2013)
Heavy flavor and Quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions with the CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Favaro C
(2013)
Heavy flavor and vector boson associated production
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Gorelov I
(2013)
Heavy Flavor Physics at ATLAS and CMS
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Xie W
(2017)
Heavy flavor Production and Interactions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions in CMS Experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Jung K
(2016)
Heavy Flavored Jet Modification at CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Wöhri H
(2013)
Heavy Flavour and Quarkonium Production at the LHC
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Sarin P
(2013)
Heavy ion physics from the CMS collaboration
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Veres G
(2013)
Heavy ion results from ATLAS and CMS
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Fernandez Perez Tomei T
(2013)
Heavy Ions in CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Yi K
(2014)
Heavy Meson Production and Spectroscopy at CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Rossi A
(2013)
Heavy-flavour and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Boimska B
(2016)
Heavy-ion Results of the CMS Experiment
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Magnan A
(2017)
HGCAL: a High-Granularity Calorimeter for the endcaps of CMS at HL-LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Olszewski M
(2016)
Higgs $\to \tau \tau $ Analysis in the CMS Experiment
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Buchmueller O
(2012)
Higgs and supersymmetry
in The European Physical Journal C
Bluj M
(2013)
Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Other Highlights of SM Measurements with the LHC
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Caminada L
(2016)
Higgs boson production in association with top quarks in CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Brandstetter J
(2016)
Higgs boson properties and tests of the Standard Model at CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Choudhury S
(2014)
Higgs Boson search at the CMS experiment
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Holzner A
(2016)
Higgs physics at CMS
in Hyperfine Interactions
Vidal M
(2014)
Higgs Physics at CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Flechl M
(2015)
Higgs physics: Review of recent results and prospects from ATLAS and CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Description | This award supported several key developments in particle physics. Most notably, early in the funding period the Higgs boson was discovered and considerable effort was then spent to precisely determine its properties to see if it is really exactly as predicted. There were a host of other measurements at various experiments, pinning down details of the standard model and trying to spot deviations. Finally, good progress was made in "spinning out" particle physics technology into other areas, including the development of systems for scanning for dense materials (with security and other applications) as well as for radiotherapy beam monitoring. |
Exploitation Route | The group is continuing to pursue these lines of research with subsequent grants. Other particle physics groups have also noted our results. And companies are working with us to develop commercial products based on our knowledge exchange. |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare |
Description | Research conducted in muon tomography is being investigated by homeland security agencies, the nuclear industry and others as a means of remote, non-invasive imaging. Research in radiotherapy beam monitoring has led to commercial products. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare,Security and Diplomacy |
Impact Types | Societal,Economic |