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)
Search for CP violation in the decay D + ? p - p + p +
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Dalitz plot analysis of B s 0 ? D ¯ 0 K - p + decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of $B^{0}_{s}$ - $\overline{B}{}^{0}_{s}$ mixing and measurement of mixing frequencies using semileptonic B decays
in The European Physical Journal C
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
Aaij R
(2014)
Evidence for CP violation in B+ ? ppK+ decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the flavour-specific CP-violating asymmetry a sl s in B s 0 decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays B(s)0?e(±)µ(±) and B0?e(±)µ(±).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
Study of C P violation in B ± ? D h ± ( h = K , p ) with the modes D ? K ± p ± p 0 , D ? p + p - p 0 and D ? K + K - p 0
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the polarization amplitudes in B 0 ? J / ? K * ( 892 ) 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Observations of B s 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) ? and B ( s ) 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) p + p - decays
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2012)
Analysis of the resonant components in B ¯ s 0 ? J / ? p + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the branching fractions of the decays B s 0 ? D ¯ 0 K - p + and B 0 ? D ¯ 0 K + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of the suppressed ADS modes B ± ? [ p ± K ± p + p - ] D K ± and B ± ? [ p ± K ± p + p - ] D p ±
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of overlapping spin-1 and spin-3 D0K- resonances at mass 2.86 GeV/c2.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2016)
Angular analysis of the B 0 ? K *0 µ + µ - decay using 3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of polarization amplitudes and CP asymmetries in B 0 ? ?K *(892)0
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the CKM angle ? from a combination of B ± ? D h ± analyses
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the Z+b-jet cross-section in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV in the forward region
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2016)
Observation of the B s 0 ? J/??? decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2012)
Observation of B(s)(0) ? J/?f(2)'(1525) in J/?K+ K- final states.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of the B¯(s)(0) effective lifetime in the J/?f0(980) final state.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of ? $$ \varUpsilon $$ production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{NN}} $$ = 5 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of photon polarization in the b?s? transition.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
Determination of the branching fractions of B S 0 ? D S ± K ± and B 0 ? D S - K +
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurements of the ? b 0 ? J / ? ? decay amplitudes and the ? b 0 polarisation in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2016)
Study of the production of and hadrons in pp collisions and first measurement of the branching fraction
in Chinese Physics C
Aaij R
(2012)
Observation of X(3872) production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\mbox{~TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the differential branching fraction of the decay ? b 0 ? ? µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of the CP violating phase ? s in B ¯ s 0 ? J / ? f 0 ( 980 )
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Observation of B0?D¯(0)K(+)K(-) and evidence for B(s)(0)?D¯(0)K(+)K(-).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the CP-violating phase ?s in Bs(0)?Ds(+)Ds(-) decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
First observation of a baryonic Bc+ decay.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the time-integrated CP asymmetry in D 0 ? K S 0 K S 0 decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of the CP-violating phase ? s in B ¯ s 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of CP violation in the phase space of B± ? K+ K- p± and B± ? p+ p- p± decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the ratio of the ? b 0 to B ¯ 0 lifetimes
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the semileptonic CP asymmetry in B0-B[over ¯]0 mixing.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Angular analysis of charged and neutral B ? Kµ + µ - decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2016)
Observations of ? b 0 ? ?K +p- and ? b 0 ? ?K + K - decays and searches for other ? b 0 and ? b 0 decays to ?h + h'- final states
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] production cross-section in proton-proton collisions via the decay [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2013)
Observation of B s 0 ? ? c 1 ? decay and study of B 0 ? ? c 1 , 2 K ? 0 decays
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurements of C P violation in the three-body phase space of charmless B ± decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of prompt hadron production ratios in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 0.9\mbox{ and }7~\mathrm{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2013)
First measurement of the CP-violating phase in Bs(0) ? ?? decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the ? b - and O b - baryon lifetimes
in Physics Letters B
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
(2015)
Measurement of forward Z ? e+e- production at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the exclusive ? production cross-section in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2016)
Constraints on the unitarity triangle angle ? from Dalitz plot analysis of B 0 ? D K + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of ? production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{\boldsymbol{s}}=\boldsymbol{7}~\mathrm{TeV}$
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 |