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
Bose S
(2013)
New physics searches with dijets and multijets in CMS
Bostelmann H
(2015)
Characterization of Local Observables in Integrable Quantum Field Theories
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Bostelmann H
(2016)
Negative energy densities in integrable quantum field theories at one-particle level
in Physical Review D
Boudoul G
(2013)
A Level-1 Tracking Trigger for the CMS upgrade using stacked silicon strip detectors and advanced pattern technologies
in Journal of Instrumentation
Boudreau J
(2013)
Instrumental Backgrounds to tt¯ and Single Top Production at Hadron Colliders
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Boutle S
(2013)
Interplay of Top Quark and Higgs Boson Measurements at the Tevatron and LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Braga D
(2012)
CBC2: a microstrip readout ASIC with coincidence logic for trigger primitives at HL-LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Braga D
(2014)
Characterization of the CBC2 readout ASIC for the CMS strip-tracker high-luminosity upgrade
in Journal of Instrumentation
Branca A
(2013)
Search for the neutral Supersymmetric Higgs boson with the CMS experiment at LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Brandstetter J
(2016)
Higgs boson properties and tests of the Standard Model at CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Breto Rangel G
(2013)
Detailed measurements of bottomonium suppression in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Brinkerhoff A
(2013)
Search for Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair in pp collisions
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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
Brook N
(2014)
Studies of Onia and Strangeness Production in Proton-proton Collisions at LHCb
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Brooke J
(2015)
SWATCH: common control SW for the uTCA-based upgraded CMS L1 Trigger
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Bruner C
(2016)
Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the transverse energy flow in pPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Nuclear Physics A
Buchmueller O
(2012)
Supersymmetry in light of 1/fb of LHC data
in The European Physical Journal C
Buchmueller O
(2014)
The NUHM2 after LHC Run 1.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Buchmueller O
(2012)
Higgs and supersymmetry
in The European Physical Journal C
Buchmueller O
(2014)
The CMSSM and NUHM1 after LHC Run 1.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Buchmueller O
(2012)
The CMSSM and NUHM1 in light of 7 TeV LHC, B s ?µ + µ - and XENON100 data
in The European Physical Journal C
Burgo R
(2016)
Readout electronics and test bench for the CMS Phase I pixel detector
in Journal of Instrumentation
Böser C
(2013)
Searches for the Higgs-like boson decaying into bottom quarks in the WH channel
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Cadamuro D
(2015)
Wedge-Local Fields in Integrable Models with Bound States
in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Calabria C
(2016)
Large-size triple GEM detectors for the CMS forward muon upgrade
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Calabria C
(2014)
Tau trigger, reconstruction and identification at CMS
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Calderón De La Barca Sánc M
(2013)
Quarkonium Results in PbPb Collisions at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Caminada L
(2016)
Higgs boson production in association with top quarks in CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Caputo C
(2014)
Physics Studies for the CMS muon system upgrade with triple-GEM detectors
in Journal of Instrumentation
Carli T
(2016)
Recent top physics highlights at the LHC
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Casado M
(2013)
Higgs results from ATLAS and CMS
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Caselle M
(2016)
Low-cost bump-bonding processes for high energy physics pixel detectors
in Journal of Instrumentation
Castro A
(2014)
Top-quark mass at hadron colliders
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Cerci D
(2014)
Hadronic results from CMS experiment at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Cerci S
(2016)
Low p Jet Cross Section Measurement in pp Collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Chakraborty D
(2015)
Charged Higgs boson searches at the LHC
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Chang C
(2016)
Search For H?Z? and H???? in CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Chang YY
(2015)
Observation of B^{0}?p?[over ¯]D^{(*)-}.
in Physical review letters
Chapon É
(2015)
W boson studies in pPb and PbPb collisions with CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Chapon É
(2016)
W and Z bosons with CMS in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions
in Nuclear Physics A
Charaf O
(2015)
Search for heavy resonances at CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Measurement of the triple-differential cross section for photon + jets production in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
A search for a doubly-charged Higgs boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 \ \mbox{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Search for baryon number violation in top-quark decays
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive p p ? W + X production at s = 7 TeV and an improved determination of light parton distribution functions
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of t leptons
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and jets in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
Search for heavy lepton partners of neutrinos in proton-proton collisions in the context of the type III seesaw mechanism
in Physics Letters B
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 |