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
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
Aad G
(2014)
Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaboration T
(2014)
Precision luminosity measurements at LHCb
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the ? b 0 ? J/? pp - decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Search for WZ resonances in the fully leptonic channel using pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the ?(b)(0) baryon.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of $$\upchi _{ {\mathrm {b}}}$$ ? b meson production in $$\mathrm {p} $$ p $$\mathrm {p} $$ p collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7 and $$8{\mathrm {\,TeV}} $$ 8 TeV and observation of the decay $$\upchi _{ {\mathrm {b}}}\mathrm {(3P)} \rightarrow \Upsilon \mathrm {(3S)} {\upgamma } $$ ? b ( 3 P ) ? ? ( 3 S ) ?
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for Majorana neutrinos in B- ? p+ µ- µ- decays.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the production cross-section of ?(2S) ? J/?(?µ + µ - )p + p - in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV at ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections for t t ¯ production in p p collisions at ( s ) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurements of indirect CP asymmetries in D0 ? K- K+ and D0 ? p- p+ decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation in D ± ? K S 0 K ± and D s ± ? K S 0 p ± decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of distributions sensitive to the underlying event in inclusive Z-boson production in $$pp$$ p p collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] production cross-section using [Formula: see text] events with [Formula: see text]-tagged jets in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new phenomena in photon + jet events collected in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS
in Physical Review Letters
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton channel using proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton-proton collision data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z ? e µ in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Abazov VM
(2014)
Measurement of the direct CP-violating charge asymmetry in Ds ± ? ? p ± decays.
in Physical review letters
Collaboration T
(2014)
Operation and performance of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the resonant character of the Z(4430)(-) state.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in B ± ? ? K ± and search for B ± ? ? p ± decays
in Physics Letters B
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
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of $${\Upsilon } $$ ? production in $${ {\mathrm {p}}} { {\mathrm {p}}} $$ p p collisions at $${\sqrt{s}} =2.76{\mathrm {\,TeV}} $$ s = 2.76 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of flow harmonics with multi-particle cumulants in Pb+Pb collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new particles in events with one lepton and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the ?b? baryon.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation using T-odd correlations in D 0 ? K + K -p+p- decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation ? rays
in Physical Review D
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
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
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of C P violation in B s 0 ? ? ? decays
in Physical Review D
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
Allport P
(2014)
Development of planar pixel modules for the ATLAS high luminosity LHC tracker upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the top quark pair production charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of C P violation parameters in B 0 ? D K * 0 decays
in Physical Review D
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a [Formula: see text] boson, [Formula: see text]-jets and missing transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] TeV [Formula: see text] collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2014)
A study of CP violation in B±?DK± and B±?Dp± decays with D ? K S 0 K ± p ± final states
in Physics Letters B
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
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 |