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
Abe K
(2015)
Search for short baseline ? e disappearance with the T2K near detector
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation ? rays
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2014)
Precise measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter ?23 from muon neutrino disappearance in an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2012)
First muon-neutrino disappearance study with an off-axis beam
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Recent Results from the T2K Experiment
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the inclusive electron neutrino charged current cross section on carbon with the T2K near detector.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the inclusive ? ยต charged current cross section on iron and hydrocarbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Abelleira Fernandez J
(2012)
A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN Report on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Abramowicz H
(2015)
Combination of measurements of inclusive deep inelastic $${e^{\pm }p}$$ e ± p scattering cross sections and QCD analysis of HERA data H1 and ZEUS Collaborations
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Measurement of the t dependence in exclusive photoproduction of ? ( 1 S ) mesons at HERA
in Physics Letters B
Abramowicz H
(2015)
Combination of differential D*± cross-section measurements in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Search for single-top production in ep collisions at HERA
in Physics Letters B
Abramowicz H
(2013)
Combination and QCD analysis of charm production cross section measurements in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowicz H
(2012)
Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowski A
(2012)
THE 2010 VERY HIGH ENERGY ?-RAY FLARE AND 10 YEARS OF MULTI-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS OF M 87
in The Astrophysical Journal
Adey D
(2014)
Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility
in Physical Review D
Affolder A
(2016)
Charge collection studies in irradiated HV-CMOS particle detectors
in Journal of Instrumentation
Agarwalla S
(2014)
The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Alam S
(2015)
THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Alexa C
(2013)
Elastic and proton-dissociative photoproduction of J/? mesons at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
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 |