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
Schilling F
(2013)
Measurements of the Top Quark Pair-Production Cross Section
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Studies of jet quenching using isolated-photon + jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Nachman B
(2013)
Measuring the Top Quark Mass using Kinematic Endpoints
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Roland G
(2013)
Highlights from CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Searches for new physics using the tt¯ invariant mass distribution in pp collisions at vs=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Barney D
(2013)
Measurement of the bulk leakage current of silicon sensors of the CMS Preshower after an integrated luminosity of 6.17 fb -1 , at vs = 7 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
CMS Collaboration
(2013)
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV in events with a single lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Measurement of neutral strange particle production in the underlying event in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Fernandez Perez Tomei T
(2013)
Heavy Ions in CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Thomay C
(2013)
A binned clustering algorithm to detect high-Z material using cosmic muons
in Journal of Instrumentation
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Measurement of the W+W- cross section in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\mbox{ TeV}$ and limits on anomalous WW? and WWZ couplings
in The European Physical Journal C
Kim D
(2013)
Non-Resonance Searches with Lepton
in EPJ Web of Conferences
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
Aaij R
(2013)
Model-independent search for CP violation in D 0 ? K - K + p - p + and D 0 ? p - p + p + p - decays
in Physics Letters B
Vanelderen L
(2013)
Phenomenological MSSM interpretation of the CMS 2011 7 TeV 5 fb -1 results
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Veres G
(2013)
Overview of results on jets from the CMS Collaboration
in Nuclear Physics A
Pozzobon N
(2013)
Development of a Level 1 Track Trigger for the CMS experiment at the high-luminosity LHC
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Maguire C
(2013)
Hadron Correlations in CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Gaz A
(2013)
CMS Pixel status
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the CP asymmetry in B(+)?K(+)µ(+)µ(-) decays.
in Physical review letters
Lutzer B
(2013)
Characterization of irradiated test structures for the CMS tracker upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Savina M
(2013)
Searches for signals from microscopic black holes in processes of proton collisions at $\sqrt s $ = 7 TeV in the CMS experiment at the LHC
in Physics of Atomic Nuclei
Arguin J
(2013)
Experimental interplay between the top quark and Supersymmetry at the LHC and Tevatron
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Search for gluino mediated bottom- and top-squark production in multijet final states in pp collisions at 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Exclusive J /? and ?(2 S ) production in pp collisions at $\protect \sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Wengler T
(2013)
Top quark angular distributions at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Sanchez A
(2013)
Particle Physics at the Tercentenary of Mikhail Lomonosov
Lai Y
(2013)
Study of jet quenching using photon-jet events in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Mironov C
(2013)
Overview of results on heavy flavour and quarkonia from the CMS collaboration
in Nuclear Physics A
Martinez Rivero C
(2013)
Searches with multilepton final states
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Symonds P
(2013)
Measurement of Missing Transverse Energy in Top Pair Events
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Baesso P
(2013)
A high resolution resistive plate chamber tracking system developed for cosmic ray muon tomography
in Journal of Instrumentation
Boutle S
(2013)
Interplay of Top Quark and Higgs Boson Measurements at the Tevatron and LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Piccolo D
(2013)
Single top quark production with CMS
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Angular analysis and branching fraction measurement of the decay B 0 ? K ? 0 µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Vuosalo C
(2013)
Searches for New Physics in Multijet Final States
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Search for heavy resonances in the W/Z-tagged dijet mass spectrum in pp collisions at 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Interpretation of searches for supersymmetry with simplified models
in Physical Review D
Fleischmann S
(2013)
Boosted top quark techniques and searches for tt¯ resonances at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Aaij R
(2013)
Prompt charm production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Nuclear Physics B
CMS Collaboration
(2013)
Search for a standard-model-like Higgs boson with a mass in the range 145 to 1000 GeV at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khoriauli G
(2013)
Top quark pair production cross-section results at LHC in final states with tau or no leptons
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for D ( s ) + ? p + µ + µ - and D ( s ) + ? p - µ + µ + decays
in Physics Letters B
Garcia-Abia P
(2013)
CMS standard model Higgs boson results
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Aubert B
(2013)
The BB detector: Upgrades, operation and performance
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Fisher-Levine M
(2013)
A Fast Analogue Front End for a Diamond Radiation Spectrometer
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
[Remortel]van Remortel N
(2013)
Soft and Semi-hard QCD Dynamics in <span class="cmmi-10">p</span>-<span class="cmmi-10">p </span>Collisions with the CMS Detector
in Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of B s 0 ? ? c 1 ? decay and study of B 0 ? ? c 1 , 2 K ? 0 decays
in Nuclear Physics B
Shabalina E
(2013)
Top quark mass combination techniques and treatment of uncertainties at the Tevatron and LHC
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 |