Sussex Experimental Particle Physics (EPP) Capital Equipment 2013
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sussex
Department Name: Sch of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Abstract
This proposal presents a request for capital equipment to support the research of the Sussex Experimental Particle Physics group.
Planned Impact
Sussex EPP has been historically involved in fundamental research and therefore, by nature, the group has developed an
"impact agenda" that centres on the engagement with the general public and the training of highly numerate science
graduates, rather than on direct collaboration with industry. Therefore the group's "Pathways to Impact" revolves around a
case based on outreach activities and on the furthering of the Government's agenda to develop a science-savvy, highly
skilled graduate workforce.
"impact agenda" that centres on the engagement with the general public and the training of highly numerate science
graduates, rather than on direct collaboration with industry. Therefore the group's "Pathways to Impact" revolves around a
case based on outreach activities and on the furthering of the Government's agenda to develop a science-savvy, highly
skilled graduate workforce.
People |
ORCID iD |
Antonella De Santo (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aaboud M
(2016)
Searches for heavy diboson resonances in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2016)
Luminosity determination in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2018)
Observation of H ? b b ¯ decays and VH production with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the relative width difference of the B 0 - B ¯ 0 $$ {B}^0\hbox{-} {\overline{B}}^0 $$ system with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for heavy particles decaying into top-quark pairs using lepton-plus-jets events in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2019)
Correlated long-range mixed-harmonic fluctuations measured in pp, p+Pb and low-multiplicity Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a t lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Prompt and non-prompt J / ? and ? ( 2 S ) suppression at high transverse momentum in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS experiment.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Combination of the Searches for Pair-Produced Vectorlike Partners of the Third-Generation Quarks at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
in Physical Review Letters
Aaboud M
(2018)
Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector and determination of the strong coupling
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
A measurement of the calorimeter response to single hadrons and determination of the jet energy scale uncertainty using LHC Run-1 pp-collision data with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for heavy long-lived charged R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector in 3.2 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of top quark pair differential cross sections in the dilepton channel in p p collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV with ATLAS
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of W boson angular distributions in events with high transverse momentum jets at s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2019)
In situ calibration of large-radius jet energy and mass in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2018)
Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] production cross sections in multilepton final states using 3.2 fb[Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2019)
Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of light bosons in the bbµµ final state in pp collision at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Comparison between simulated and observed LHC beam backgrounds in the ATLAS experiment at E beam =4 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
(2016)
Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run-1 data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in different-flavour high-mass dilepton final states in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] Tev with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for heavy resonances decaying to a Z boson and a photon in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 13 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the top quark mass in the t t ¯ ? dilepton channel from s = 8 TeV ATLAS data
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Operation and performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter in Run 1.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb - 1 of p p collision data at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for pair production of Higgsinos in final states with at least three b -tagged jets in s = 13 TeV p p collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the t t ¯ production cross-section using eµ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in events with a photon and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] TeV pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run-1 data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Measurement of the cross-section for producing a W boson in association with a single top quark in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for pair production of Higgs bosons in the b b ¯ b b ¯ final state using proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for TeV-scale gravity signatures in high-mass final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of jet activity in top quark events using the eµ final state with two b-tagged jets in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | Equipment awarded on this grant has enabled the progress in research in the field of neutrino physics and collider physics at the Large HAdron Collider. |
Exploitation Route | The research equipment and activities will be taken forward by Dr Cerri's PDRA and PhD student, under the supervision of DR Cerri. The equipment is also available to other Sussex/EPP members for R&D activities. Other activities on low-backgorund experiments, conducted primarily by Dr S Peeters, have also benefited from this grant. |
Sectors | Education,Electronics |
Description | The Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Sussex runs an intense outreach programme, closely linked to the research carried out within the Department. Our WWW is http://www.sussex.ac.uk/physics/outreach. Our activities not only involve research talks, but also hands on activities that introduce the basics of our research to the public. We work with members of the general public, and school and college students. We work with over 12,000 people per year, two-thirds of who are children of school age. We interact through stands at various science fairs and in classroom-type setting (including our travelling planetarium). |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Education |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
Description | ATLAS Collaboration, CERN |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | ATLAS is one of the genera-purpose detectors at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Sussex is one of the institute participating in ATLAS, including in view of future experimental upgrades. We are contributing to the design of a tracking level-1 trigger for ATLAS for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators from other ATLAS institutes are also contributing to the design of the upgraded ATLAS trigger for the HL-LHC. |
Impact | http://atlas.web.cern.ch/ |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Feature Talk at British Science Festival (2017) - Visions of the Large Hadron Collider |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk + Q&A with the audience. Prof Antonella De Santo with artist duo Semiconductor (http://semiconductorfilms.com/) and philosopher Dr Beatrice Fazi (Sussex Humanities Lab), held at art gallery Fabrica, Brighton. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.britishsciencefestival.org/event/visions-of-the-large-hadron-collider/ |
Description | Research-based Outreach |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | At the University of Sussex, we run a major outreach programme within the department of physics and astronomy, originally set up as part of the SEPnet initiative. The program involves members of the department at all levels, from taught undergraduate and postgraduate students, research students, post doctorial researchers and faculty. We have a wide range of practical activities available to take out to local schools, which are boxed up with a detailed lesson plan for department members to take to take out or use on site. The majority of our outreach activities are linked to our research. Our annual reach is to 5,000 students per year, working with approximately 800 primary school students, 3500 secondary student, and 700 A-level students, in addition to the 2,000 members of the general public that experience our events. We currently run 130 events per year, reaching school and college students at 60 different schools. We have both schools visiting the University of Sussex campus in Brighton, and we also go out to schools. Around half of our events involve communicating the research carried out at the University direct to schools, colleges and the public. 25% of our events involve describing our particle physics research, usually consisting of a research talk (about the Large Hadron Collider, SNO+, etc) which is reinforced by practical activities (such as building cloud chambers, or visiting our research labs). Every week during the school terms, we run a School's Lab day, where a group of students visit the University for as full day of experiments specifically designed for the GCSE, AS and A2 level syllabus. During those days, the students visit a research lab, and get the opportunity to talk with our research students about their work. In addition, visiting A-level students also have a research lecture, and get to here the latest research being done here at Sussex. Every year, we offer masterclasses in both astronomy and particle physics, with one day aimed at GCSE students, and another at A-level. These days involve research-level talks, visits to labs, as well as hands on experimental experience. We have developed links with local schools and colleges. Teachers frequently approach us to request research related outreach activities (talks, lab tours, practical activities), ask for advice or to borrow equipment for teaching. In 2013, we ran the Institute of Physics sponsored Physic Update weekend conference for teachers. Since we began our outreach program, undergraduate numbers has risen significantly within the department, from an intake of 40 students in 2009, up to the current (and sustained) 140 students per year. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010,2011,2013,2014 |
URL | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/physics/outreach |