2012 Consolidated Grant Supplement
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Support for consumables and travel on 2012 CG
Planned Impact
Our innovations are finding applications of benefit to UK plc and the public. Highlights include:
1. Our joint projects with e2v on the production of sensor technologies has brought this UK company to the point it can bid for contracts against Hamamatsu Photonics
2. Our relationship with Micron Semiconductor Ltd has enabled the UK to retain its leadership in the production of detectors for a wide variety of applications for aerospace and reactor monitoring.
3. Working with electronics companies we have enabled them to bid for major EU contracts.
a. Stevenage Circuits, with whom we developed the LHCb VELO readout hybrids, have extended these ultra reliable processes for the ATLAS tracker upgrade.
b. Hawk Electronics who worked with us on the VELO, won an industry award, and is now bidding for large EU contracts (see http://www.hawkelectronics.co.uk/)
4. We are adapting T2K technology towards a robust, cost effective antineutrino detector for passive reactor monitoring. This IAEA promoted activity addresses non-proliferation security in an environment of Global Uncertainty.
5. Our LHCb VELO detectors have been qualified and are being installed as a permanent beam monitor at Clatterbridge Oncology Unit.
6. Collaborating in an EU programme we are developing a modular, mobile neutron detection system for locating fissile materials e.g. at ports of entry, an important contribution to Homeland Security.
7. Our new foray into ground based detection of dark energy using atom interferometers has attracted AWE interest and support towards further applications.
8. In 2003 we founded the AiMes Institute for exploitation of Grid technologies which had a £20M footprint and seed-corn funding from NWDA and the EU. As well as seeding e-business related companies and winning entrepreneur awards, the Institute itself eventually became a commercial, award winning company http://www.aimesgridservices.com/.
We are extremely fortunate to have as a member of staff Dr. Tara Shears wo is one of the most popular communicators of particle physics in the country. She is regularly interviewed in the national press and appears frequently on local and national radio and television. Tara is part of the public face of CERN and appears in short popular science films, one of which was shortlisted in the best popular science section of the national network NHK (Japan, 2011). She is highly in demand as an expert commentator on physics with a notable presence and following on YouTube and Twitter. Other members of our staff have appeared in ad-hoc interviews round the world including Greek and Russian Television and national press.
We work closely with the University's Corporate Communications Department to ensure that the particle physics message is communicated round the world. For example at the most recent Higgs announcement Liverpool staff members had substantial coverage in the press, including on the front page of Financial Times, attracting congratulatory comments from Hong Kong financiers, and on Radio 4 and Television.
The group organized a short workshop with our Corporate Communications and the Interactions Collaboration at Liverpool . We have a policy of ensuring that opinion makers, industrialists and MPs are invited to CERN and are able to discuss with students, technical staff and researchers. We have participated in the House of Commons exchange scheme where one of our staff members spends a week at Westminster and, in return, an MP spends time in our Laboratory.
We have an active programme with Schools, from Masterclass events and talks, inviting local schools to CERN and in the last 4 years creating a CERN based Summer School for the brightest pre-university students. We also run a 4 week Nuffield course at Liverpool for school children considering a career in Science. Phil Allport has played a major role in IoP activities and is well known on Merseyside acting as an official Ambassador for the region.
1. Our joint projects with e2v on the production of sensor technologies has brought this UK company to the point it can bid for contracts against Hamamatsu Photonics
2. Our relationship with Micron Semiconductor Ltd has enabled the UK to retain its leadership in the production of detectors for a wide variety of applications for aerospace and reactor monitoring.
3. Working with electronics companies we have enabled them to bid for major EU contracts.
a. Stevenage Circuits, with whom we developed the LHCb VELO readout hybrids, have extended these ultra reliable processes for the ATLAS tracker upgrade.
b. Hawk Electronics who worked with us on the VELO, won an industry award, and is now bidding for large EU contracts (see http://www.hawkelectronics.co.uk/)
4. We are adapting T2K technology towards a robust, cost effective antineutrino detector for passive reactor monitoring. This IAEA promoted activity addresses non-proliferation security in an environment of Global Uncertainty.
5. Our LHCb VELO detectors have been qualified and are being installed as a permanent beam monitor at Clatterbridge Oncology Unit.
6. Collaborating in an EU programme we are developing a modular, mobile neutron detection system for locating fissile materials e.g. at ports of entry, an important contribution to Homeland Security.
7. Our new foray into ground based detection of dark energy using atom interferometers has attracted AWE interest and support towards further applications.
8. In 2003 we founded the AiMes Institute for exploitation of Grid technologies which had a £20M footprint and seed-corn funding from NWDA and the EU. As well as seeding e-business related companies and winning entrepreneur awards, the Institute itself eventually became a commercial, award winning company http://www.aimesgridservices.com/.
We are extremely fortunate to have as a member of staff Dr. Tara Shears wo is one of the most popular communicators of particle physics in the country. She is regularly interviewed in the national press and appears frequently on local and national radio and television. Tara is part of the public face of CERN and appears in short popular science films, one of which was shortlisted in the best popular science section of the national network NHK (Japan, 2011). She is highly in demand as an expert commentator on physics with a notable presence and following on YouTube and Twitter. Other members of our staff have appeared in ad-hoc interviews round the world including Greek and Russian Television and national press.
We work closely with the University's Corporate Communications Department to ensure that the particle physics message is communicated round the world. For example at the most recent Higgs announcement Liverpool staff members had substantial coverage in the press, including on the front page of Financial Times, attracting congratulatory comments from Hong Kong financiers, and on Radio 4 and Television.
The group organized a short workshop with our Corporate Communications and the Interactions Collaboration at Liverpool . We have a policy of ensuring that opinion makers, industrialists and MPs are invited to CERN and are able to discuss with students, technical staff and researchers. We have participated in the House of Commons exchange scheme where one of our staff members spends a week at Westminster and, in return, an MP spends time in our Laboratory.
We have an active programme with Schools, from Masterclass events and talks, inviting local schools to CERN and in the last 4 years creating a CERN based Summer School for the brightest pre-university students. We also run a 4 week Nuffield course at Liverpool for school children considering a career in Science. Phil Allport has played a major role in IoP activities and is well known on Merseyside acting as an official Ambassador for the region.
People |
ORCID iD |
Themistocles Bowcock (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a heavy vector boson decaying to two gluons in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Top Quarks Using the Full CDF Data Set
in Physical Review Letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Precise measurement of the W -boson mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of ZZ production in leptonic final states at sqrt[s] of 1.96 TeV at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of the difference in CP-violating asymmetries in D(0)?K(+)K(-) and D(0)?p(+)p(-) decays at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Higgs boson studies at the Tevatron
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for Higgs bosons produced in association with b quarks
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2015)
Tevatron Combination of Single-Top-Quark Cross Sections and Determination of the Magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element V_{tb}.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Study of top quark production and decays involving a tau lepton at CDF and limits on a charged Higgs boson contribution
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a heavy particle decaying to a top quark and a light quark in pp ¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Direct measurement of the total decay width of the top quark.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for heavy metastable particles decaying to jet pairs in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2015)
Tevatron constraints on models of the Higgs boson with exotic spin and parity using decays to bottom-antibottom quark pairs.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the leptonic asymmetry in t t ¯ events produced in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the top-quark pair-production cross section in events with two leptons and bottom-quark jets using the full CDF data set
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Search for s-channel single-top-quark production in events with missing energy plus jets in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for dark matter in events with one jet and missing transverse energy in pp¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the cross section for direct-photon production in association with a heavy quark in pp[over ¯] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Measurement of indirect C P -violating asymmetries in D 0 ? K + K - and D 0 ? p + p - decays at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Exclusion of exotic top-like quarks with - 4 / 3 electric charge using jet-charge tagging in single-lepton t t ¯ events at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Production of K S 0 , K * ± ( 892 ) and ? 0 ( 1020 ) in minimum bias events and K S 0 and ? 0 in jets in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of the C P -violating phase ß s J / ? ? in B s 0 ? J / ? ? decays with the CDF II detector
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Indirect measurement of sin 2 ? W (or M W ) using µ + µ - pairs from ? * / Z bosons produced in p p ¯ collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Evidence for the charmless annihilation decay mode B(s)(0)?p(+)p(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the differential cross section ds/d(cos?(t)) for Top-Quark Pair Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Measurement of B(t?Wb)/B(t?Wq) in top-quark-pair decays using dilepton events and the full CDF Run II data set.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Diffractive dijet production in p ¯ p collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2015)
Search for production of an ? ( 1 S ) meson in association with a W or Z boson using the full 1.96 TeV p p ¯ collision data set at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with two oppositely charged leptons using the full CDF data set.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2015)
Measurement of the production and differential cross sections of W + W - bosons in association with jets in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of the Bottom-Strange Meson Mixing Phase in the Full CDF Data Set
in Physical Review Letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of C P -violating asymmetries in D 0 ? p + p - and D 0 ? K + K - decays at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Mass and lifetime measurements of bottom and charm baryons in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Evidence for s-channel single-top-quark production in events with one charged lepton and two jets at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2015)
First measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in bottom-quark pair production at high mass
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2015)
Studies of high-transverse momentum jet substructure and top quarks produced in 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurements of the angular distributions in the decays B?K(*)µ(+)µ(-) at CDF.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a Higgs boson in the diphoton final state using the full CDF data set from p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2013)
W-boson polarization measurement in the t t ¯ dilepton channel using the CDF II detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2014)
Search for new physics in trilepton events and limits on the associated chargino-neutralino production at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Search for the production of Z W and Z Z boson pairs decaying into charged leptons and jets in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Publisher's Note: Novel inclusive search for the Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state at CDF [Phys. Rev. D 86 , 072012 (2012)]
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Transverse momentum cross section of e + e - pairs in the Z -boson region from p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Measurement of the top quark forward-backward production asymmetry and its dependence on event kinematic properties
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Observation of D°-D¯° mixing using the CDF II detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Measurement of the masses and widths of the bottom baryons S b ± and S b * ±
in Physical Review D
Description | See 2012-2016 Consolidated Grant ST/K001418/1 |
Exploitation Route | Joint funding of PhD Students |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Security and Diplomacy |
Description | See ST/K-1418/1 Cultural outputs include the Museum exhibits and the London Science Museum ("Collider"and the "World a Particle" at the Victoria Gallery and Museum Liverpool |
First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
Description | Collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) |
Organisation | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Creation of the partnership |
Collaborator Contribution | We have started a partnership in 2 main areas. First with the MicroSystems Division (CMM). Previous staff member Prof. G. Casse became director in 2016. We have expanded this to deep learning with their IT departmetmn |
Impact | Award of STFC CDT, collabrateion with Microsoft. This multi-disiplinary and impacts health. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Pixel Tiles |
Organisation | University of Glasgow |
Department | Physics and Astronomy Department |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Liverpool helped model, design, and test pixel sensors from a number of manufactureres including Micron Semiconductors. Our focus was on producting radiation hard sensors. The collaboration produced the first prototypes for two of the major CERN detectorss (LHCb and ATLAS). |
Collaborator Contribution | Both Manchester and Glagow contributed variants of the designs and different technologies. These were use by Glasgow with application to the ATLAS detectors at CERN and with Manchester to the LHCb detector at CERN. |
Impact | The UK was able to capture the design and fabrication of sensors and modules for the LHCb detectors uipgrade at CERN and be the major lead int he design and construction of the pixel endcap for ATLAS |
Start Year | 2010 |
Description | Pixel Tiles |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Liverpool helped model, design, and test pixel sensors from a number of manufactureres including Micron Semiconductors. Our focus was on producting radiation hard sensors. The collaboration produced the first prototypes for two of the major CERN detectorss (LHCb and ATLAS). |
Collaborator Contribution | Both Manchester and Glagow contributed variants of the designs and different technologies. These were use by Glasgow with application to the ATLAS detectors at CERN and with Manchester to the LHCb detector at CERN. |
Impact | The UK was able to capture the design and fabrication of sensors and modules for the LHCb detectors uipgrade at CERN and be the major lead int he design and construction of the pixel endcap for ATLAS |
Start Year | 2010 |