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
Sanabria J
(2015)
Higgs Results from ATLAS and CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Casado M
(2013)
Higgs results from ATLAS and CMS
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Mankel R
(2014)
Higgs searches beyond the Standard Model
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Mankel R
(2014)
Higgs searches beyond the Standard Model
in International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
Piedra J
(2012)
Higgs searches in CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Lagarde F
(2016)
High rate, fast timing Glass RPC for the high ? CMS muon detectors
in Journal of Instrumentation
Baesso P
(2012)
High resolution muon tracking with resistive plate chambers
in Journal of Instrumentation
Roland G
(2013)
Highlights from CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Straessner A
(2013)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LHC
in Acta Polytechnica
Apresyan A
(2012)
Identification and Mitigation of Anomalous Signals in CMS Hadronic Calorimeter
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Collaboration T
(2015)
Identification of beauty and charm quark jets at LHCb
in Journal of Instrumentation
Venditti R
(2016)
Identification of hadronic tau decays in CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Venditti R
(2015)
Identification of hadronic tau decays in CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Venditti R
(2015)
Identification of hadronic tau decays in CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Veelken C
(2015)
Identification of hadronic tau decays in CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Khachatryan V
(2014)
Identification techniques for highly boosted W bosons that decay into hadrons
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Siklér F
(2014)
Identified particles in pPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV measured with the CMS detector
in Nuclear Physics A
Magnani A
(2016)
Impact of the GE1/1 station on the performance of the muon system in CMS
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Bharucha A
(2013)
Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects
in The European Physical Journal C
Onyisi P
(2013)
Improved measurement of absolute hadronic branching fractions of the D s + meson
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Inclusive and differential measurements of the t t ¯ charge asymmetry in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
Inclusive and differential measurements of the t t ¯ charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Seidl R
(2015)
Inclusive cross sections for pairs of identified light charged hadrons and for single protons in e + e - at s = 10.58 GeV
in Physical Review D
Stephans G
(2013)
Inclusive isolated photons in pp and PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Tonjes M
(2013)
Inclusive jet and charged hadron nuclear modification factors in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark with charge 2 3 in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Inclusive search for supersymmetry using razor variables in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Inclusive search for supersymmetry using razor variables in pp collisions at vs=7 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Duarte J
(2016)
Inclusive Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS detector at s = 8 TeV
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Dräger A
(2014)
Inclusive searches for SUSY from CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Boudreau J
(2013)
Instrumental Backgrounds to tt¯ and Single Top Production at Hadron Colliders
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Guthoff M
(2017)
Instrumentation for beam radiation and luminosity measurement in the CMS experiment using novel detector technologies
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Malik S
(2015)
Interplay and characterization of Dark Matter searches at colliders and in direct detection experiments
in Physics of the Dark Universe
Boutle S
(2013)
Interplay of Top Quark and Higgs Boson Measurements at the Tevatron and LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Interpretation of searches for supersymmetry with simplified models
in Physical Review D
Larrea C
(2015)
IPbus: a flexible Ethernet-based control system for xTCA hardware
in Journal of Instrumentation
Barbieri R
(2014)
Isolated photon measurements in pp and PbPb collisions with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Aaij R
(2022)
J / ? photoproduction in Pb-Pb peripheral collisions at s N N = 5 TeV
in Physical Review C
Appelt E
(2014)
Jet and charged hadron nuclear modification factors in pPb collisions with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
CMS Collaboration
(2013)
Jet and underlying event properties as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
GANGULY S
(2013)
JET CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENTS IN CMS
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Rathjens D
(2013)
Jet Energy Calibration in the CMS experiment
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Eusebi R
(2012)
Jet energy corrections and uncertainties in CMS: reducing their impact on physics measurements
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Ma F
(2013)
Jet fragmentation functions in PbPb and pp collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Elayavalli R
(2015)
Jet Measurements in Heavy-ion Collisions with CMS
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Dittmann J
(2013)
Jet Physics at the LHC and the Tevatron
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Flouris G
(2016)
Jet production and a s measurement at CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Mavromanolakis G
(2016)
Jet production and aS measurements at CMS
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Trauger H
(2015)
Jet quenching studies in 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 |