Birmingham Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Particle physics in general, and particularly the quest to understand the origins of mass through the Higgs boson, are in the mainstream of current public consciousness. With the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) going from strength to strength, there has never been a more exciting time in the field. Birmingham is unique among UK universities in being involved in three of the four main LHC experiments, as well as a smaller scale CERN experiment which uses a fixed target. We study the particle collisions and decays observed in these experiments with the aim of determining the ultimate structure of matter and the forces of nature.
Our biggest activity is with the ATLAS collaboration, for which group member Dave Charlton is the deputy spokesperson. ATLAS is designed to study wide-ranging aspects of particle physics at the highest energies ever reached in the laboratory, the first priority being the search for the Higgs boson. From up to a billion collisions taking place per second, only around 400 can be permanently recorded and analysed. Our ATLAS group built, maintains and operates a major part of the ATLAS `trigger', the electronic brain of the experiment, which has the task of selecting interesting events such as candidate Higgs bosons, and reducing the data rate by a factor of 1000 within two millionths of a second after collisions take place. We are also very active in analysing the resulting data, with a particularly strong team working on Higgs searches and another investigating the production and decays of top quarks. Being the heaviest of the known particles, top quarks offer excellent sensitivity to previously unknown physics. Whilst top quark samples were small before the LHC era, ATLAS has already collected approaching 100,000 events.
The LHC is expected to operate until around 2030, but will need several shut-down periods during its lifetime, when the accelerator and detectors will be improved. We are already working towards an upgrade of our trigger to improve its selection capabilities and enable it to cope with the increased collision rates expected from 2018. Looking even further to the future, we will use our expertise in the bonding of electronics directly onto silicon-based detectors to make major contributions to a replacement for the inner part of the detector, which will be needed in around 2022.
Beyond ATLAS, our second key area of activity is in understanding the complex decays of heavy quarks. At the LHCb experiment, we are investigating the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe by searching for tiny differences between the decay characteristics of b quarks and their antiquarks. We are relative newcomers to LHCb, having joined in March 2011 and taken on essential technical responsibilities in simulating the detector and enabling the use of the world-wide computing grid to perform distributed analysis. In the next few years, we aim to further develop these roles as well as our physics analyses, which are currently focused on rare decays of b flavoured particles.
Our NA62 group studies the decays of strange particles to search for new physics such as supersymmetry. The next grant period will be crucial for NA62, as it takes data to study an ultra rare process in which a strange particle, the kaon, decays to produce a pion, which is made of light quarks, and two neutrinos. This process occurs only once in every 10 billion kaon decays and only 80 events are expected in a two year run. Any hint of a larger rate would be a very clear indication of new physics. The group is leading several aspects of NA62 detector construction and data analysis.
Finally, the group contains central proponents of a possible future `LHeC' project to collide electrons with the LHC proton beam, as well as the long-standing linear electron-positron collider project. We will continue in these leadership roles and be ready to step up our involvement should the opportunity arise.
Our biggest activity is with the ATLAS collaboration, for which group member Dave Charlton is the deputy spokesperson. ATLAS is designed to study wide-ranging aspects of particle physics at the highest energies ever reached in the laboratory, the first priority being the search for the Higgs boson. From up to a billion collisions taking place per second, only around 400 can be permanently recorded and analysed. Our ATLAS group built, maintains and operates a major part of the ATLAS `trigger', the electronic brain of the experiment, which has the task of selecting interesting events such as candidate Higgs bosons, and reducing the data rate by a factor of 1000 within two millionths of a second after collisions take place. We are also very active in analysing the resulting data, with a particularly strong team working on Higgs searches and another investigating the production and decays of top quarks. Being the heaviest of the known particles, top quarks offer excellent sensitivity to previously unknown physics. Whilst top quark samples were small before the LHC era, ATLAS has already collected approaching 100,000 events.
The LHC is expected to operate until around 2030, but will need several shut-down periods during its lifetime, when the accelerator and detectors will be improved. We are already working towards an upgrade of our trigger to improve its selection capabilities and enable it to cope with the increased collision rates expected from 2018. Looking even further to the future, we will use our expertise in the bonding of electronics directly onto silicon-based detectors to make major contributions to a replacement for the inner part of the detector, which will be needed in around 2022.
Beyond ATLAS, our second key area of activity is in understanding the complex decays of heavy quarks. At the LHCb experiment, we are investigating the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe by searching for tiny differences between the decay characteristics of b quarks and their antiquarks. We are relative newcomers to LHCb, having joined in March 2011 and taken on essential technical responsibilities in simulating the detector and enabling the use of the world-wide computing grid to perform distributed analysis. In the next few years, we aim to further develop these roles as well as our physics analyses, which are currently focused on rare decays of b flavoured particles.
Our NA62 group studies the decays of strange particles to search for new physics such as supersymmetry. The next grant period will be crucial for NA62, as it takes data to study an ultra rare process in which a strange particle, the kaon, decays to produce a pion, which is made of light quarks, and two neutrinos. This process occurs only once in every 10 billion kaon decays and only 80 events are expected in a two year run. Any hint of a larger rate would be a very clear indication of new physics. The group is leading several aspects of NA62 detector construction and data analysis.
Finally, the group contains central proponents of a possible future `LHeC' project to collide electrons with the LHC proton beam, as well as the long-standing linear electron-positron collider project. We will continue in these leadership roles and be ready to step up our involvement should the opportunity arise.
Planned Impact
The group's work leads to high impact levels to society in general, to the physics community and through our knowledge transfer activities.
The group is internationally leading in its outreach work, introducing particle physics to wide audiences of both the general public and school students. For the general public, the impact is at a cultural level: people are ever more curious to understand the basic building blocks of nature and their imagination is captured by the LHC more than by any previous scientific endeavour. Our work with schools helps to engage students in science in exciting ways. As is by now well documented for example by the IOP, the effects of the high profile developed through particle physics outreach work has a measurable effect on numbers of students applying to study physics at University. Some examples of our outreach work are briefly outlined below.
Our `Discovering Particles' display was staged at the British Science Festival 2010 and the Royal Society Science Exhibition 2011. The latter stand attracted about 8000 visitors over 6 days. The associated resources which we developed are widely used. Similar planned events for 2012 include the NEC Big Bang Fair and participating in BBC ``Bang Goes the Theory LIVE" roadshow. Together with the Birmingham Think Tank museum, we have created a display of a set of short videos, introducing physicists, engineers and technicians from ATLAS, which have been used to form an exhibition visited by more than 10000 people. We have developed a simplified version of our ATLAS event visualisation package, which is freely downloadable for members of the public to learn about particle physics signatures and detectors and has been used by more than 8000 school students in Europe and the USA in masterclass events. We demonstrate our spark chamber, cosmic ray scintillator and cloud chamber in schools more than 20 times per year, run `CASCADE' competitions in which schools produce particle physics outreach material of their own, and we have developed a `Particle Physics Manager' computer strategy game. We have a strong media presence, with group members making regular appearances on TV, radio and in the printed press. Group members also give frequent lectures on particle physics and the LHC in schools, scientific societies and elsewhere.
Our primary current knowledge exchange activities are based on exploitation of our expertise and facilities in silicon / electronics assembly and distributed computing. The silicon work has grown out of the high-performance ultrasonic wire-bonding work which the group did in constructing the ATLAS semi-conductor tracker. In collaboration with industrial partners, Aero Engine Controls, we have constructed 20 prototype electronic boards, designed to function at very high temperatures, for example in aircraft engines. Together with the new West Midlands Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), we are in the process of gathering collaborators to secure Technology Strategy Board funding with a view to developing a manufacturing process to commercialise this work.
We are exploiting our distributed computing / grid knowledge obtained in the context of the `Ganga' grid interface framework in collaboration with computer science start-up companies, to develop tools for web search engines. For example, we have deployed a `web-spider' on the grid, which searched the content of billions of web pages and built unprecedented levels of statistics on relative occurrences of different combinations of words, with applications from predictive text to understanding sentence structure.
The group is internationally leading in its outreach work, introducing particle physics to wide audiences of both the general public and school students. For the general public, the impact is at a cultural level: people are ever more curious to understand the basic building blocks of nature and their imagination is captured by the LHC more than by any previous scientific endeavour. Our work with schools helps to engage students in science in exciting ways. As is by now well documented for example by the IOP, the effects of the high profile developed through particle physics outreach work has a measurable effect on numbers of students applying to study physics at University. Some examples of our outreach work are briefly outlined below.
Our `Discovering Particles' display was staged at the British Science Festival 2010 and the Royal Society Science Exhibition 2011. The latter stand attracted about 8000 visitors over 6 days. The associated resources which we developed are widely used. Similar planned events for 2012 include the NEC Big Bang Fair and participating in BBC ``Bang Goes the Theory LIVE" roadshow. Together with the Birmingham Think Tank museum, we have created a display of a set of short videos, introducing physicists, engineers and technicians from ATLAS, which have been used to form an exhibition visited by more than 10000 people. We have developed a simplified version of our ATLAS event visualisation package, which is freely downloadable for members of the public to learn about particle physics signatures and detectors and has been used by more than 8000 school students in Europe and the USA in masterclass events. We demonstrate our spark chamber, cosmic ray scintillator and cloud chamber in schools more than 20 times per year, run `CASCADE' competitions in which schools produce particle physics outreach material of their own, and we have developed a `Particle Physics Manager' computer strategy game. We have a strong media presence, with group members making regular appearances on TV, radio and in the printed press. Group members also give frequent lectures on particle physics and the LHC in schools, scientific societies and elsewhere.
Our primary current knowledge exchange activities are based on exploitation of our expertise and facilities in silicon / electronics assembly and distributed computing. The silicon work has grown out of the high-performance ultrasonic wire-bonding work which the group did in constructing the ATLAS semi-conductor tracker. In collaboration with industrial partners, Aero Engine Controls, we have constructed 20 prototype electronic boards, designed to function at very high temperatures, for example in aircraft engines. Together with the new West Midlands Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), we are in the process of gathering collaborators to secure Technology Strategy Board funding with a view to developing a manufacturing process to commercialise this work.
We are exploiting our distributed computing / grid knowledge obtained in the context of the `Ganga' grid interface framework in collaboration with computer science start-up companies, to develop tools for web search engines. For example, we have deployed a `web-spider' on the grid, which searched the content of billions of web pages and built unprecedented levels of statistics on relative occurrences of different combinations of words, with applications from predictive text to understanding sentence structure.
Publications
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for Resonant and Nonresonant Higgs Boson Pair Production in the bb[over ¯]t^{+}t^{-} Decay Channel in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2019)
Search for heavy charged long-lived particles in the ATLAS detector in 36.1 fb - 1 of proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Measurement of jet fragmentation in Pb+Pb and p p collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aaboud M
(2019)
Search for excited electrons singly produced in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} ~=~13~\text {Te}\text {V}$$ with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2019)
Search for heavy long-lived multicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for W' ? tb decays in the hadronic final state using pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2019)
Observation of electroweak W±Z boson pair production in association with two jets in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2019)
Measurement of photon-jet transverse momentum correlations in 5.02 TeV Pb + Pb and pp collisions with ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Description | Multiple areas of scientific progress in the first phase of LHC running, most notably the discovery of a Higgs boson, explaining the origin of mass and opening a new sub-subject of scalar fields. |
Exploitation Route | There is a very major ongoing public engagement programme, both locally in Birmingham, nationally and internationally |
Sectors | Education Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism |
Description | Discovery of the Higgs boson and many other outputs from collaborations at CERN funded through this grant have had a major impact on public understanding of / interest in science, including recruitment of young people into STEM areas. We are also attempting to apply ATLAS tracking detectors to medical imaging. |
First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
Sector | Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | Organiser of EUCARD2 "Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges" |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Multi-disciplinary meeting of primarily healthcare professionals involved with hadron radiotherapy |
URL | http://eucard2.web.cern.ch/events/ion-beam-therapy-clinical-scientific-and-technical-challenges |
Description | STFC invitation to the Focus Group Meeting of its CLASP (Challenge Led Applied Systems) Healthcare call. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | AIDA |
Amount | £73,538 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AIDA-2020 (H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015 call) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2015 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | CASE Studentship |
Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/P002552/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2017 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships (Watson) |
Amount | £402,603 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2010 |
End | 09/2016 |
Description | ERC Starting Grant (Goudzovski) |
Amount | € 1,600,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 09/2013 |
End | 09/2018 |
Description | FP7 |
Amount | £506,292 (GBP) |
Funding ID | GA 268062 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 08/2011 |
End | 08/2016 |
Description | FP_MC_IEF |
Amount | £154,883 (GBP) |
Funding ID | PIEF-GA-2010-271987 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 03/2011 |
End | 03/2013 |
Description | IPPP Associateship (Nikolopoulos) |
Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Durham University |
Department | Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2014 |
End | 09/2015 |
Description | Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (Nikolopoulos) |
Amount | € 100,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 334034 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2013 |
End | 03/2017 |
Description | Marie Curie Fellowships |
Amount | € 78,125 (EUR) |
Funding ID | FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG-334034 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2013 |
End | 03/2017 |
Description | Outreach awards |
Amount | £41,559 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 283487 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 08/2011 |
End | 08/2013 |
Description | Royal Society Partnership (Lazzeroni) |
Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2014 |
End | 08/2015 |
Description | Standard Proposal |
Amount | £3,800,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R023220/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | UKIERI Joint Projects |
Amount | £19,425 (GBP) |
Funding ID | UKUTP2001100159 |
Organisation | UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2012 |
End | 02/2014 |
Description | University Research Fellowships (Goudzovski) |
Amount | £525,769 (GBP) |
Funding ID | UF100308 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2012 |
End | 12/2016 |
Description | ATLAS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | ATLAS Collaboration |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | - Large role in construction, operation and upgrade planning of first level calorimeter trigger - Role in construction, operation and upgrade planning of Semiconductor tracker - Major contributions to data analysis and paper preparation in Higgs boson searches and discovery, top, beauty and charm quark physics and diffraction / minimum bias physics - Leadership (e.g. Prof Dave Charlton is the current spokesperson) |
Collaborator Contribution | Large international collaboration |
Impact | See elsewhere |
Description | H1 |
Organisation | Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Leadership, data analysis and paper preparation |
Collaborator Contribution | Large International Caollaboration |
Impact | See elsewhere (particularly publications) |
Description | ILC |
Organisation | International Linear Collider |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Digital calorimeter design and radiation hardness tests. Physics analysis and motivation development ... particularly through involvement in the CALICE and SPIDER projects ... |
Collaborator Contribution | Large international collaboration. |
Impact | See elsewhere |
Description | LHCb |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment (LHCb) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development of detector simulation Support for distributed computing Data analysis and paper preparation in the area of rare beauty baryon decays |
Collaborator Contribution | Large international collaboration |
Impact | See elsewhere |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | LHeC |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | LHeC Future Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Evaluation of low x physics case Various leadership and steering roles Conference talk and web page coordination |
Collaborator Contribution | Large international study group |
Impact | See elsewhere (in particular Conceptual Design Report) |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | NA62 |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | NA62 Rare Kaon-Decay Experiment |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Large role in design and construction of detector, in particular the electronics and readout for the CEDAR Cherenkov detector. Leadership in preparations for data analysis, particularly in the area of searches for charged lepton flavour violation. |
Collaborator Contribution | Large international collaboration |
Impact | See elsewhere |
Title | ASSEMBLY, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD |
Description | Some embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus having a particle beamline for passage of charged particles of radiation therealong, comprising: a first beam tracker structure comprising at least one position sensitive detector (PSD) for determining a location with respect to a cross-sectional area of the beam line at which particles pass through the PSD; energy discrimination apparatus for determining an energy of particles that have passed through the first beam tracker structure; and support means for supporting a subject in a path of a particle along the beamline between the first beam tracker structure and the energy discrimination apparatus, the apparatus being configured to be operated in a selected one of a first mode and a second mode, the apparatus being configured, in the first mode of operation, to control an energy of the beam of charged particles passing through the first beam tracker structure such that a Bragg peak of charged particle absorption is located within the subject, and in the second mode of operation, to control an energy of the beam of charged particles passing through the first beam tracker structure such that a Bragg peak of charged particle absorption is located within the energy discrimination apparatus. |
IP Reference | WO2015189603 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
Impact | New funding from EPSRC |
Description | A Reconfigurable CMOS Sensor for Tracking, Pre-Shower and Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hiroshima Semiconductor Tracknig Detector Conference HSTD20 (16/12/19) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/803258/ |
Description | A Reconfigurable Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor in Radiation-hard Technology for Outer Tracking and Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10th-17th November 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.eventclass.org/contxt_ieee2018/online-program/session?s=N-36#e130 |
Description | Amateur scientific societies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Approximately 10 presentations of recent results from the LHC at scientific societies and similar bodies since October 2012. Impact on the enhanced enthusiasm, engagement and understanding of STFC science among members of the public with a strong scientific interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Big Bang Fair 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Version of the `Understanding the Higgs Boson' stand used at the 2014 Big Bang Fair at the NEC, aimed at schools and general public aged mostly between 9 and 16. Reached an estimated 5000 visitors |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Big Bang Fair 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Reuse of 'Beyond the Higgs Boson Exhibition, first shown at 2014 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry at the FCC-hh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | FCC week 2017, Berlin, May 29th - June 2nd, 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/556692/contributions/2465167/ |
Description | Discover the Cosmos teachers' workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dedicated workshop for science school-teachers in which LHC and other particle physics is illustrated using the MINERVA software package, built in Birmingham and derived from the ATLAS event display. About 50 attended. Improved quality and enthusiasm in teaching of particle physics and other STFC science in schools. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013 |
Description | FCC-hh Progress on physics and experiment studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | FCC Week 2016, Rome, Italy, 11th to 15th April, 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/438866/contributions/1084937/ |
Description | First tests of a reconfigurable depleted MAPS sensor for Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 15th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna, Austria, Feb 18th-22nd 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://vci2019.hephy.at/programme/ |
Description | From HL-LHC to Hadron Therapy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting with Advanced Oncotherapy Ltd, Director of STFC Laboratories, Director of Daresbury, Head of STFC CMOS Imaging Sensor Design Group and leads on detector development at Daresbury |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | From High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider to Hadron Therapy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | invited colloquium at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (28/3/2018) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Hunting for the Higgs Boson |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy organised Neston High School Visit to CERN l6th June 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Impact Of The Innovations In Semiconductor Advanced Technology On The Tracking Concepts In Fundamental Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote talk 5th Summer School on Intelligent Signal processing for Frontier research and industry, , Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/683620/ |
Description | Neston School Visit to CERN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | School visit to CERN and meeting with Birmingham undergraduates |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Overview of Particle Physics to Teledyne e2v Ltd |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation on 23rd October 2017 to Teledyne e2v Ltd |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Proton Computed Tomography with Particle Physics Tracking Detectors, Fast timing silicon pixel detectors for new applications: proton therapy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Fast timing silicon pixel detectors for new applications: proton therapy This one-day community consultation workshop aims to explore possible applications in proton therapy of silicon pixel detectors with precise timing capabilities. 22/11/19 University of Manchester |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/853133/overview |
Description | Radiotherapy Applications of Particle Tracking Detectors |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | STFC Cancer Diagnostic Network+ College Court Conference Centre, Leicester 20/01/20 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/view/stfccancerdiagnosis/home/workshops |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Coordination of successful bid by multiple UK particle physics groups and preparations to provide an `Understanding the Higgs Boson' stand at the 2013 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (to be held in July 2013). This reached a large volume and cross section of the UK public, including opinion formers, politicians and eminent scientists, increasing their knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm for the Higgs boson discovery and other aspects of STFC science |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013 |
URL | http://www.understanding-the-higgs-boson.org |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Leadership of UK universities consortium in preparations for a `Higgs Boson and Beyond' stand at the 2014 RS Summer Science Exhibition, following on from the successful 2013 version. Similar audience to 2013 version |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://sse.royalsociety.org/2014/higgs-boson/ |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 'Cosmic Ray Detectives' stand at RS summer science exhibition. Estimated audience ~20000 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://sse.royalsociety.org/2015/cosmic-ray-detectives/ |
Description | School Talk Sedbergh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Higgs discovery at Sedbergh School |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | School Talk to West Kirby Grammar School for girls |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Presentation of state of the art on particle physics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | School visits (approximately 20) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Approximately 20 visits to schools were made since October 2012. The usual format is a seminar-style presentation of particle physics and the latest results from the LHC, combined with demonstrations of spark chamber and cloud chamber detectors built at Birmingham University for this purpose. Impact on the enthusiasm and awareness of STFC science to the next generation of researchers, administrators and taxpayers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014 |
Description | SiW ECAL studies for FCC-hh and their implications for FCC-ee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 3rd FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop, 13-17 January 2020, CERN. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/838435/ |
Description | Talk to Weatherhead High School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk on particle physics to Weatherhead High School |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |