The study of elementary particles and their interactions
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This grant is to continue the group's programme of investigation into the properties of elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature.
One of the main objectives of this grant will be to support the exploitation of the LHC experiments which will be taking data during the period of this grant. The CMS experiment will continue to measure the Higgs particle, following its successful discovery in 2012. It will also be able to cover completely new areas of parameter space in searches for SUSY and other new phenomena such as finding evidence of potential dark matter candidates. The LHCb experiment will offer complementary tests of the Standard Model and beyond with the ability to look for extremely rare decays in flavour physics and to measure CP asymmetries in the decays of B mesons, both of which are sensitive to contributions from new physics. These experiments will make extensive use of Grid computing which the group will continue to develop and exploit, both for the LHC and for other experiments. The group will also be active in preparing the next generation of detectors for the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC.
The T2K experiment will allow us to expand our understanding of the masses and mixings in the neutrino sector, and should provide key measurements which will guide us as to whether we ultimately could see evidence of CP violation in the neutrino sector. One of the other missing pieces of the neutrino puzzle is whether the neutrino is its own antiparticle. We are preparing the SuperNEMO experiment to attempt to determine if the neutrino is a Majorana particle and first data-taking will occur during the grant. Heavy neutrino-like particles are predicted in several new physics models and we are starting preparations for the SHiP experiment to search for these new particles.
The group will be active in several experiments specifically searching for new physics. Direct conversion of muons to electrons is heavily suppressed in the Standard Model so any observation of this process would be a major discovery. The COMET experiment is searching for this process and will take data during the grant. Similarly, a measurable electric dipole moment for the electron could only arise through new physics and the eEDM experiment will continue to push down the limits for such an effect. Around a quarter of the universe is composed of dark matter and its nature is unknown. This has so far remained undetected in the laboratory and the group will continue its activity in searching for direct evidence of a dark matter candidate through the LUX and later LUX-ZEPLIN experiments.
Accelerators to produce muon beams will be needed for future neutrino and muon collider experiments. The group is continuing its research in this area through the MICE experiment and nuSTORM studies. Proton beams also have potential applications for other scientific fields and for healthcare, and the group is studying how to apply these techniques in these areas. Understanding the LHC in terms of phenomenology is critical to comparing data to theory and the group is very active in this area.
One of the main objectives of this grant will be to support the exploitation of the LHC experiments which will be taking data during the period of this grant. The CMS experiment will continue to measure the Higgs particle, following its successful discovery in 2012. It will also be able to cover completely new areas of parameter space in searches for SUSY and other new phenomena such as finding evidence of potential dark matter candidates. The LHCb experiment will offer complementary tests of the Standard Model and beyond with the ability to look for extremely rare decays in flavour physics and to measure CP asymmetries in the decays of B mesons, both of which are sensitive to contributions from new physics. These experiments will make extensive use of Grid computing which the group will continue to develop and exploit, both for the LHC and for other experiments. The group will also be active in preparing the next generation of detectors for the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC.
The T2K experiment will allow us to expand our understanding of the masses and mixings in the neutrino sector, and should provide key measurements which will guide us as to whether we ultimately could see evidence of CP violation in the neutrino sector. One of the other missing pieces of the neutrino puzzle is whether the neutrino is its own antiparticle. We are preparing the SuperNEMO experiment to attempt to determine if the neutrino is a Majorana particle and first data-taking will occur during the grant. Heavy neutrino-like particles are predicted in several new physics models and we are starting preparations for the SHiP experiment to search for these new particles.
The group will be active in several experiments specifically searching for new physics. Direct conversion of muons to electrons is heavily suppressed in the Standard Model so any observation of this process would be a major discovery. The COMET experiment is searching for this process and will take data during the grant. Similarly, a measurable electric dipole moment for the electron could only arise through new physics and the eEDM experiment will continue to push down the limits for such an effect. Around a quarter of the universe is composed of dark matter and its nature is unknown. This has so far remained undetected in the laboratory and the group will continue its activity in searching for direct evidence of a dark matter candidate through the LUX and later LUX-ZEPLIN experiments.
Accelerators to produce muon beams will be needed for future neutrino and muon collider experiments. The group is continuing its research in this area through the MICE experiment and nuSTORM studies. Proton beams also have potential applications for other scientific fields and for healthcare, and the group is studying how to apply these techniques in these areas. Understanding the LHC in terms of phenomenology is critical to comparing data to theory and the group is very active in this area.
Planned Impact
While much of the research described in this grant is exploring fundamental questions where the immediate impact implications of discoveries can take decades to unfold, there are many examples of areas where technology developed in the pursuit of discoveries can have a more immediate impact. The group has potential impact in several key areas; training, outreach, transfer of HEP technology and ideas, and transfer and development of accelerator technology. These reach a diverse audience ranging from schoolchildren to cancer practitioners to neutron source users. See the submitted "Pathways To Impact" document for further details.
Organisations
Publications
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for Narrow Resonances in Dijet Final States at sqrt[s]=8 TeV with the Novel CMS Technique of Data Scouting.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Narrow Resonances in the b-Tagged Dijet Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to µ+µ- in pp collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for neutral resonances decaying into a Z boson and a pair of b jets or t leptons
in Physics Letters B
Abe K
(2019)
Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Abe K
(2018)
Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande Associated with the GW170817 Neutron-star Merger
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new long-lived particles at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in monophoton final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for new physics in dijet angular distributions using proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV and constraints on dark matter and other models.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for new physics in events with a leptonically decaying Z boson and a large transverse momentum imbalance in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new physics in events with two soft oppositely charged leptons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new physics in final states with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and transverse momentum imbalance at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new physics in final states with two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new physics in same-sign dilepton events in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for new physics in top quark production in dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new physics with the M T2 variable in all-jets final states produced in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for pair production of excited top quarks in the lepton + jets final state
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for pair production of first and second generation leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for pair production of second-generation leptoquarks at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for pair production of vector-like quarks in the b W b ? W channel from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for pair production of vectorlike quarks in the fully hadronic final state
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Pair-Produced Resonances Each Decaying into at Least Four Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for pair-produced three-jet resonances in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for pair-produced vectorlike B quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Events with High-Momentum Higgs Bosons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model in Events with Overlapping Photons and Jets
in Physical Review Letters
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for physics beyond the standard model in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for R-parity violating decays of a top squark in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for rare decays of Z and Higgs bosons to J / ? and a photon in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 and 13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for resonant production of second-generation sleptons with same-sign dimuon events in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for resonant t t ¯ production in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for s channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for single production of a vector-like T quark decaying to a Z boson and a top quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a top quark and a W boson in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for standard model production of four top quarks with same-sign and multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaij R
(2016)
Search for Structure in the B_{s}^{0}p^{±} Invariant Mass Spectrum.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for supersymmetric partners of electrons and muons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in electroweak production with photons and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, jets, b -jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 Te .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for supersymmetry in events with at least three electrons or muons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in events with soft leptons, low jet multiplicity, and missing transverse energy in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Description | One of the main objectives of this grant was to support the exploitation of the LHC experiments which were taking data during the period of this grant. The CMS experiment continued to measure the Higgs particle, following its successful discovery in 2012. It was also able to cover completely new areas of parameter space in searches for SUSY and other new phenomena such as finding evidence of potential dark matter candidates. The LHCb experiment offered complementary tests of the Standard Model and beyond with the ability to look for extremely rare decays in flavour physics and to measure CP asymmetries in the decays of B mesons, both of which are sensitive to contributions from new physics. These experiments made extensive use of Grid computing which we continued to develop and exploit, both for the LHC and for other experiments. We were also active in preparing the next generation of detectors for the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC. The T2K experiment allowed us to expand our understanding of the masses and mixings in the neutrino sector, and provided key measurements towards obtaining evidence of CP violation in the neutrino sector. One of the other missing pieces of the neutrino puzzle is whether the neutrino is its own antiparticle. We prepared the SuperNEMO experiment to attempt to determine if the neutrino is a Majorana particle and first data-taking occurred during the grant. Heavy neutrino-like particles are predicted in several new physics models and we started preparations for the SHiP experiment to search for these new particles. The group was active in several experiments specifically searching for new physics. Direct conversion of muons to electrons is heavily suppressed in the Standard Model so any observation of this process would be a major discovery. The COMET experiment was prepared to search for this process. Similarly, a measurable electric dipole moment for the electron could only arise through new physics and the eEDM experiment continued to push down the limits for such an effect. Around a quarter of the universe is composed of dark matter and its nature is unknown. This has so far remained undetected in the laboratory and we continued to search for direct evidence of a dark matter candidate through the LUX and later LUX-ZEPLIN experiments. Accelerators to produce muon beams will be needed for future neutrino and muon collider experiments. The group continued its research in this area through the MICE experiment and nuSTORM studies. Proton beams also have potential applications for other scientific fields and for healthcare, and we studied how to apply these techniques in these areas. Understanding the LHC in terms of phenomenology is critical to comparing data to theory and we were very active in this area. |
Exploitation Route | The knowledge gained will directly benefit future researchers in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare |
Description | ZEPLIN-III detector exhibit & Public Lecture at "Whitby & the Cosmos" exhibition, Whitby, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The ZEPLIN-III dark matter detector, which operated at the Boulby Underground Laboratory between 2007 and 2011, was adapted for public display at Imperial College London and donated to the Whitby Museum in late 2018 -- where it became the centrepiece of the topical exhibition "Whitby & the Cosmos". I gave a public lecture entitled "Searching for WIMPs under the Moors" on 15 Feb 2019 to open the event. The ZEPLIN-III instrument will be moved to the permanent collection of the Museum once the exhibition comes to an end in July 2019. Both the exhibition and the public lecture were widely publicised in the local media. The Museum received further support from the Royal Society for this event. The exhibition will receive many thousand of visitors over the coming months. We had the opportunity to donate the instrument to the Science Museum in London, but we chose the Whitby Museum instead to honour a town which hosted the ZEPLIN collaboration for two decades. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/2019/01/09/whitby-and-the-cosmos/ |