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
Abazov V
(2015)
Measurement of the electron charge asymmetry in p p ¯ ? W + X ? e ? + X decays in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2013)
Search for anomalous quartic W W ? ? couplings in dielectron and missing energy final states in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Muon reconstruction and identification with the Run II D0 detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abazov V
(2013)
Measurement of the Z Z production cross section and search for the standard model Higgs boson in the four lepton final state in p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Measurement of the ? ? * distribution of muon pairs with masses between 30 and 500 GeV in 10.4 fb - 1 of p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production in p p ¯ collisions using the lepton + jets channel
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in ? b 0 and ? ¯ b 0 baryon production in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of differential t t ¯ production cross sections in p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Precision measurement of the top-quark mass in lepton + jets final states
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the electric charge of the top quark in t t ¯ events
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2013)
Search for Z H ? l + l - b b ¯ production in 9.7 fb - 1 of p p ¯ collisions with the D0 detector
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Observation and studies of double J / ? production at the Tevatron
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2013)
Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in p p ¯ ? W + X ? µ ? + X events at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Jet energy scale determination in the D0 experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abazov V
(2014)
Electron and photon identification in the D0 experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abazov V
(2014)
Study of C P -violating charge asymmetries of single muons and like-sign dimuons in p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the direct C P -violating parameter A C P in the decay D + ? K - p + p +
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Measurement of the Effective Weak Mixing Angle in p p ¯ ? Z / ? * ? e + e - Events
in Physical Review Letters
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the differential ? + 2 b -jet cross section and the ratio s ( ? + 2 b -jets ) / s ( ? + b -jet ) in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the distribution of leptons in t t ¯ events in the lepton + jets channel
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2016)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of ? and ? ¯ production in p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2016)
Precise measurement of the top quark mass in dilepton decays using optimized neutrino weighting
in Physics Letters B
Abazov V
(2015)
Measurement of the W+b-jet and W+c-jet differential production cross sections in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the W Boson Production Charge Asymmetry in p p ¯ ? W + X ? e ? + X Events at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
Abazov V
(2014)
Measurement of the W boson mass with the D0 detector
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Measurement of the ratio of inclusive cross sections s ( p p ¯ ? Z + 2 b jets / s ( p p ¯ ? Z + 2 jets ) in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Search for the X ( 4140 ) state in B + ? J / ? ? K + decays with the D0 detector
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2014)
Improved b quark jet identification at the D0 experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Abazov V
(2013)
Measurement of the differential cross section of photon plus jet production in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2013)
Measurement of the asymmetry in angular distributions of leptons produced in dilepton t t ¯ final states in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Simultaneous measurement of forward-backward asymmetry and top polarization in dilepton final states from t t ¯ production at the Tevatron
in Physical Review D
Abazov V
(2015)
Erratum: Measurement of the W Boson Production Charge Asymmetry in p p ¯ ? W + X ? e ? + X Events at s = 1.96 TeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 , 151803 (2014)]
in Physical Review Letters
Abazov V
(2013)
Evidence for s-channel single top quark production in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abazov V
(2014)
Double parton interactions in ? + 3 jet and ? + b / c jet + 2 jet events in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov VM
(2014)
Precision measurement of the top quark mass in lepton + jets final States.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2014)
Measurement of the direct CP-violating charge asymmetry in Ds ± ? ? p ± decays.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2016)
Evidence for Simultaneous Production of J/? and ? Mesons.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2013)
Measurement of direct CP violation parameters in B± ? J/?K± and B± ? J/?p± decays with 10.4 fb-1 of Tevatron data.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2014)
Measurement of associated production of z bosons with charm quark jets in pp collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2016)
Publisher's Note: Search for Violation of CPT and Lorentz Invariance in B_{s}^{0} Meson Oscillations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161601 (2015)].
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2015)
Measurement of the B(s)(0) lifetime in the flavor-specific decay channel B(s)(0)?D(s)(-)µ(+)?X.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2015)
Inclusive Production of the X(4140) State in pp[over ¯] Collisions at D0.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2015)
Search for Violation of CPT and Lorentz Invariance in Bs(0) Meson Oscillations.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2014)
Constraints on models for the Higgs boson with exotic spin and parity in VH ? Vbb final states.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2015)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of B(±) mesons in pp¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2015)
Measurement of the ? µ charged-current quasielastic cross section on carbon with the ND280 detector at T2K
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
T2K neutrino flux prediction
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of the inclusive ? µ charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Observation of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam.
in Physical review letters
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 |