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
Aad G
(2014)
Erratum: Search for new phenomena in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Mori R
(2016)
Evaluation of the performance of irradiated silicon strip sensors for the forward detector of the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aaltonen T
(2013)
Evidence for a bottom baryon resonance ? b * 0 in CDF data
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
Aaij R
(2014)
Evidence for CP violation in B+ ? ppK+ decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
Evidence for CP violation in time-integrated D0?h(-)h(+) decay rates.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Evidence for electroweak production of W±W±jj in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
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
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
Abazov VM
(2016)
Evidence for Simultaneous Production of J/? and ? Mesons.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Evidence for the charmless annihilation decay mode B(s)(0)?p(+)p(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Evidence for the decay $ \mathrm{B}_{\mathrm{c}}^{+}\to { {\mathrm{J}} \left/ { {\uppsi\;3{\uppi^{+}}2{\uppi^{-}}}} \right.} $
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2013)
Evidence for the decay B 0 ? J / ? ? and measurement of the relative branching fractions of B s 0 meson decays to J / ? ? and J / ? ? '
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2014)
Evidence for the decay X ( 3872 ) ? ? ( 2 S ) ?
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2015)
Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2015)
Evidence for the Strangeness-Changing Weak Decay ?_{b}^{-}??_{b}^{0}p^{-}.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Evidence of W?? Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV and Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
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
Andreev V
(2016)
Exclusive $$\rho ^0$$ ? 0 meson photoproduction with a leading neutron at HERA H1 Collaboration
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
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
Aaij R
(2013)
First evidence for the decay B(s)(0)?µ+ µ-.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
First evidence of direct CP violation in charmless two-body decays of Bs0 mesons.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
First measurement of the charge asymmetry in beauty-quark pair production.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First measurement of the CP-violating phase in Bs(0) ? ?? decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
First measurement of the differential branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the B ± ? p ± µ + µ - decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaltonen T
(2015)
First measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in bottom-quark pair production at high mass
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2012)
First muon-neutrino disappearance study with an off-axis beam
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2015)
First observation and amplitude analysis of the B - ? D + K - p - decay
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2015)
First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B s 0 ? D s * ± K ±
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
First observation of a baryonic Bc+ decay.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First observation of B ¯ 0 ? J / ? K + K - and search for B ¯ 0 ? J / ? ? decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
First observation of CP violation in the decays of B(s)0 mesons.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2016)
First Observation of D^{0}-D[over ¯]^{0} Oscillations in D^{0}?K^{+}p^{-}p^{+}p^{-} Decays and Measurement of the Associated Coherence Parameters.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decay B s 0 ? K ? 0 K ¯ ? 0
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2016)
First observation of the decay B s 0 ? K S 0 K *(892)0 at LHCb
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decay B(c)+ ? J/?p(+) p- p+.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First observation of the decay Bs2*(5840)(0)?B*+ K- and studies of excited Bs(0) mesons.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decays B ¯ ( s ) 0 ? D s + K - p + p - and B ¯ s 0 ? D s 1 ( 2536 ) + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decays B(0) ? D(+)K(-)p(+)p(-) and B(-) ? D(0)K(-)p(+)p(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2016)
First observation of the rare B + ? D + K + p - decay
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2015)
First observation of top quark production in the forward region.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
First observations of B ¯ s 0 ? D + D - , D s + D - and D 0 D ¯ 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
First observations of the rare decays B + ? K + p + p - µ + µ - and B +? ?K + µ + µ -
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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 |