Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
Particle physics seeks to understand the Universe, its birth, evolution and fate in terms of the interplay of elementary particles (the quarks and leptons) the fundamental forces (the strong, electromagnetic, and weak forces and gravity) and the force-particles that mediate them (photons, W/Z, gluons and gravitons) and the recently discovered Higgs particle that gives the elementary particles mass. The last thirty years have seen the development of a successful theoretical framework, the Standard Model, in which almost all particle-physics data can be explained. However, the model is incomplete. While it explains what we encounter on Earth, studies of the cosmos indicate the presence of mysterious dark matter that holds galaxies together and even more mysterious dark energy that is driving galaxies apart at an ever-increasing rate. There are so many mysteries! There has never been a better time to be a particle physicist. Oxford's research will advance significantly our understanding of whatever "new-physics" theory will emerge to replace the Standard Model, and will guide the theoretical work to develop it.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is about to restart; it reproduces the conditions within a million millionth of a second of the Big Bang. Oxford plays a major role in both ATLAS and LHCb. These experiments have the potential to completely revolutionise our understanding of the universe. In ATLAS, Oxford physicists participated in the exciting discovery of the "Higgs particle", which makes matter matter by giving it mass. We are also searching for particles having "supersymmetry" (SUSY), a theory that would provide a solution to the "dark-matter" that makes up about 80% of the matter in the Universe; ATLAS is also searching for hidden extra spatial dimensions. Oxford physicists on LHCb strive for a better understanding of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe, by studying subtle differences in the behaviour of quarks and antiquarks - "CP-violation". This asymmetry permits us to exist.
Over the next decade, the LHC will upgrade to higher energy and intensity, and so detector improvements are being prepared for both ATLAS and LHCb. The upgraded detectors will take particle physics to an unprecedented level of sensitivity for the nearly inevitable new-physics observations. Throughout our work we are enabling powerful computing resources and analysis tools that are necessary for the extraction of important discoveries from vast volumes of data.
We participate in high-precision experiments which are complementary to the large experiments at the LHC. LZ addresses one of the most important questions in particle physics and cosmology; a search for dark matter, a candidate being the lightest SUSY particle. LSST will measure how quickly the expansion of the universe is speeding up due to the mysterious dark energy that represents 75% of all the energy in the universe and acts like anti-gravity pushing galaxies apart. Similarly g-2 will measure a property of a muon (a heavy electron) that is especially sensitive to fleeting quantum fluctuations of new particles, with unprecedented precision which will also complement measurements of CP-violation from the LHCb experiment.
Through T2K, SoLid, MicroBooNE and future projects Oxford aims to understand the elusive neutrino, and its "oscillation" from one type to another. The SNO+ experiment will measure other properties of the neutrino, e.g. whether or not it is its own antiparticle.
Throughout, Oxford will continue to develop and enhance capabilities in mechanical and electronic design so that we retain the ability to construct the most sophisticated apparatus for our physics objectives. We will retain our world-leading role for scientific excellence and major state-of-the-art detector construction in particle physics for the future. These are exciting times for particle physics, and Oxford is playing a major role.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is about to restart; it reproduces the conditions within a million millionth of a second of the Big Bang. Oxford plays a major role in both ATLAS and LHCb. These experiments have the potential to completely revolutionise our understanding of the universe. In ATLAS, Oxford physicists participated in the exciting discovery of the "Higgs particle", which makes matter matter by giving it mass. We are also searching for particles having "supersymmetry" (SUSY), a theory that would provide a solution to the "dark-matter" that makes up about 80% of the matter in the Universe; ATLAS is also searching for hidden extra spatial dimensions. Oxford physicists on LHCb strive for a better understanding of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe, by studying subtle differences in the behaviour of quarks and antiquarks - "CP-violation". This asymmetry permits us to exist.
Over the next decade, the LHC will upgrade to higher energy and intensity, and so detector improvements are being prepared for both ATLAS and LHCb. The upgraded detectors will take particle physics to an unprecedented level of sensitivity for the nearly inevitable new-physics observations. Throughout our work we are enabling powerful computing resources and analysis tools that are necessary for the extraction of important discoveries from vast volumes of data.
We participate in high-precision experiments which are complementary to the large experiments at the LHC. LZ addresses one of the most important questions in particle physics and cosmology; a search for dark matter, a candidate being the lightest SUSY particle. LSST will measure how quickly the expansion of the universe is speeding up due to the mysterious dark energy that represents 75% of all the energy in the universe and acts like anti-gravity pushing galaxies apart. Similarly g-2 will measure a property of a muon (a heavy electron) that is especially sensitive to fleeting quantum fluctuations of new particles, with unprecedented precision which will also complement measurements of CP-violation from the LHCb experiment.
Through T2K, SoLid, MicroBooNE and future projects Oxford aims to understand the elusive neutrino, and its "oscillation" from one type to another. The SNO+ experiment will measure other properties of the neutrino, e.g. whether or not it is its own antiparticle.
Throughout, Oxford will continue to develop and enhance capabilities in mechanical and electronic design so that we retain the ability to construct the most sophisticated apparatus for our physics objectives. We will retain our world-leading role for scientific excellence and major state-of-the-art detector construction in particle physics for the future. These are exciting times for particle physics, and Oxford is playing a major role.
Planned Impact
Curiosity-driven research has been shown many times to be a key factor in producing high-impact applications that break the paradigm rather than contribute to incremental improvements. The research in this proposal contributes to the possibility that, by working at the cutting edge of new technologies, significant developments of benefit to a far wider community can be produced. Our current portfolio gives examples of such applications and we fully expect that others will develop during the period of this grant.
Our research into detectors and sensors has applications in many other fields. Work on scintillator technology for neutrino projects is now offering benefits for the security sector: the MARS project is underway to develop sensitive detectors for security and non-proliferation applications. Similarly we are developing a silicon photomultiplier system which could be used and adapted to many detection systems for nuclear reactor monitoring or portable radiation detectors. Detection of magnetic fields for measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g-2) requires the development of exquisitely sensitive magnetometers which will find wider application, e.g. a standard for NMR studies in physical chemistry. Optimisation of light-collection efficiency in the SNO experiment has led to a low-cost cooker for the developing world, currently under test.
Our research requires low mass materials and the solutions developed with our design and fabrication workshops have applications in entirely different fields. Our workshops have rare capabilities and fulfil industrial contracts. The metrology demands of particle and accelerator physics drive advances that have wider application. We are developing firmware and hardware (originally from ATLAS and the ILC) for a new readout system for interferometric alignment tools. We already collaborate with and supply industry; we aim to be able to license this new technology similarly.
Both the methods and outcomes of our research attract great public interest and our outreach programmes involve schoolchildren, the general public and policymakers in appreciating how our understanding of the universe is advancing and the role of projects such as the LHC. Our schools activities help attract students to study physics at university and are being supplemented by novel approaches such as the LHSee and Collider smartphone apps, and other educational resources such as Masterclasses and participation in the UNIQ Summer School. The citizen science project "Higgs Hunters" (http://www.higgshunters.org/), allows members of the general public to scan event displays of Higgs candidate events searching for decays. This is the first project that allows the public to search for new physics in the LHC data; already 4625 registered users have carried out more than 500,000 classifications. The Superstrings and Einstein's Universe lectures, bringing together particle physics, cosmology and music, have attracted critical acclaim and interest from communities outside science and will continue to develop with lectures based on new commissioned compositions for performance from 2012. At the triannual Stargazing Oxford events (over a thousand visitors per day event), we demonstrate the basic principles of fundamental particles and electricity. Our talks and events for the wider public aim to make our science more accessible and to encourage interest in new results from our experiments as they are announced. The unprecedented huge media interest in the Higgs discovery in July 2012 is indicative of significant success in this endeavour.
Our research into detectors and sensors has applications in many other fields. Work on scintillator technology for neutrino projects is now offering benefits for the security sector: the MARS project is underway to develop sensitive detectors for security and non-proliferation applications. Similarly we are developing a silicon photomultiplier system which could be used and adapted to many detection systems for nuclear reactor monitoring or portable radiation detectors. Detection of magnetic fields for measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g-2) requires the development of exquisitely sensitive magnetometers which will find wider application, e.g. a standard for NMR studies in physical chemistry. Optimisation of light-collection efficiency in the SNO experiment has led to a low-cost cooker for the developing world, currently under test.
Our research requires low mass materials and the solutions developed with our design and fabrication workshops have applications in entirely different fields. Our workshops have rare capabilities and fulfil industrial contracts. The metrology demands of particle and accelerator physics drive advances that have wider application. We are developing firmware and hardware (originally from ATLAS and the ILC) for a new readout system for interferometric alignment tools. We already collaborate with and supply industry; we aim to be able to license this new technology similarly.
Both the methods and outcomes of our research attract great public interest and our outreach programmes involve schoolchildren, the general public and policymakers in appreciating how our understanding of the universe is advancing and the role of projects such as the LHC. Our schools activities help attract students to study physics at university and are being supplemented by novel approaches such as the LHSee and Collider smartphone apps, and other educational resources such as Masterclasses and participation in the UNIQ Summer School. The citizen science project "Higgs Hunters" (http://www.higgshunters.org/), allows members of the general public to scan event displays of Higgs candidate events searching for decays. This is the first project that allows the public to search for new physics in the LHC data; already 4625 registered users have carried out more than 500,000 classifications. The Superstrings and Einstein's Universe lectures, bringing together particle physics, cosmology and music, have attracted critical acclaim and interest from communities outside science and will continue to develop with lectures based on new commissioned compositions for performance from 2012. At the triannual Stargazing Oxford events (over a thousand visitors per day event), we demonstrate the basic principles of fundamental particles and electricity. Our talks and events for the wider public aim to make our science more accessible and to encourage interest in new results from our experiments as they are announced. The unprecedented huge media interest in the Higgs discovery in July 2012 is indicative of significant success in this endeavour.
Organisations
Publications
Aaboud M
(2018)
Measurement of jet fragmentation in 5.02 TeV proton-lead and proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics A
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric states in scenarios with compressed mass spectra at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2019)
Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of light bosons in the bbµµ final state in pp collision at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for pair production of heavy vectorlike quarks decaying into hadronic final states in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for resonant WZ production in the fully leptonic final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2019)
Measurement of the nuclear modification factor for inclusive jets in Pb+Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for heavy ZZ resonances in the l + l - l + l - and l + l - ? ? ¯ final states using proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Description | Major advances in particle physics ocncerning the nature of the Higgs Boson, neutrinos, heavy quarks and trhe search for dark matter. |
Exploitation Route | These results enable the global partcile physics community to furth develop the internationally agreed glosbal roadmap for the field. |
Sectors | Education |
Description | Impacted the high school curriculum. |
First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
Sector | Education |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Title | "Data" of "First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment" |
Description | Data points used in analysis in log_10(S2)-S1 space |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.hepdata.net/record/145093 |
Title | "Efficiency" of "First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment" |
Description | Data selection efficiency as a function of nuclear recoil energy |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.hepdata.net/record/145092 |
Title | "SDn cross section" of "First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment" |
Description | 90% CL WIMP SDn cross sections, including sensitivities and nuclear structure uncertainties |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.hepdata.net/record/145090 |
Title | "SDp cross section" of "First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment" |
Description | 90% CL WIMP SDp cross sections, including sensitivities and nuclear structure uncertainties |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.hepdata.net/record/145091 |
Title | "SI cross section" of "First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment" |
Description | 90% CL WIMP SI cross sections, including sensitivities |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.hepdata.net/record/145089 |
Title | Transverse Kinematic Imbalance in neutrino-nucleus interactions |
Description | The interaction of neutrinos when colliding in nuclei is modelled by introducing a set of three TKI-variables (transverse kinematic imbalance). Neutrinos can only be studied when they interact with more solid materials, usually by colliding with the nuclei at the centre of each atom in a block of material. Unfortunately, the nucleus is a difficult object to understand as it is made of many parts that interact under the strong force. These sub-interactions in the nucleus make the properties of the neutrino, such as it's energy difficult to measure. The TKI variables have been identified to exploit the law of conservation of momentum to exploit experimentally measurable quantities. These can be compared with the various simulations of neutrino interactions available to constrain the models. |
Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Several experimental measurements of neutrino interactions have been made at experimental facilities in the USA (Minerva at Fermilab) and Japan (T2K at J-PARC) using the variables identified in this model and comparisopns made to neutrino interaction models. Insight has been gained into how these neutrino models can be adjusted to improve agreement with data. The original idea was published in 2016 and the subsequent experimental measurements have become widespread, such that the method is in use by a growing list of neutrino experiments. |
Description | DUNE Collaboration |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | This is an international science collaboration. We are working on the design of a near detector for a future of neutrino oscillation experiment as well as on the design of a data acquisition system for a 40 kton liquid Argon detector to detect and clarify neutrino interactions. |
Collaborator Contribution | There are around 150 other collaborating institutions, which work on all aspects of this planned experiment. More details can be found on the collaboration web page. |
Impact | Design reports, and conference contributions. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | DUNE Collaboration |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | This is an international science collaboration. We are working on the design of a near detector for a future of neutrino oscillation experiment as well as on the design of a data acquisition system for a 40 kton liquid Argon detector to detect and clarify neutrino interactions. |
Collaborator Contribution | There are around 150 other collaborating institutions, which work on all aspects of this planned experiment. More details can be found on the collaboration web page. |
Impact | Design reports, and conference contributions. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | LBNF |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | planning a future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment |
Collaborator Contribution | providing the project office and major components of the program planning |
Impact | many conference proceedings and a technical design report |
Start Year | 2010 |
Description | MCP photon detectors for the TORCH project |
Organisation | Photek Ltd. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We made the specifications for the MCP photon detectors (quantum efficiency, granularity and lifetime). We tasted the iterations of the product, and also the final version of the detector. |
Collaborator Contribution | Photek developed customised MCP photon detectors for the project. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary. Photek will commercialize a photon detector based on its R&D with the TORCH collaboration. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | MINOS |
Organisation | Multiplicom N.V. |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Leading calibration effort for MINOS detectors Analysing data and publishing results concerning cosmic rays |
Collaborator Contribution | providing access to MINOS experimental data |
Impact | calibrated data, several publications, operating support for detector |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | SoLid Collaboration |
Organisation | Belgian Nuclear Research Centre |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We designed and built part of the electronics and prototype detectors used by the SoLid collaboration for the search for sterile neutrino signals at the BR2 nuclear reactor in Mol, Belgium. We developed the DAQ system. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partners, designed, constructed and commissioned parts of the experiments and analysed the data. |
Impact | The collaboration built a detector that will be used in fundamental research. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | ATLAS Outtreach |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A journey into the ATLAS detector - How elementary particles are detected |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52OYi4q6VdA&autoplaylist=1 |
Description | Advertising FSI technology to interested industries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The FSI technologies that we are patenting has been disseminated to the members of the Oxford University Innovation Partnership Club. A UK company has asked for details of these technologies and ISIS innovation have several potentially interested industrial companies that may take out licenses for this thechnology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2017 |
Description | Annual family friendly Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Christmas Lecture for families |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Article on the Higgs boson |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article about the importance of the Higgs boson and future studies at the LHC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://phys.org/news/2015-07-exploring-higgs-boson-dark-side.html |
Description | CUWIP 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Conference Undergraduate Women in Physics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | CUWiP UK 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was the main organiser of the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/confs/cuwip2019/ |
Description | CUWiP UK 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk at CUWiP UK 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Cambridge University Scientific Society- Exploring the High Energy frontier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about physics at the LHC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Einstein and Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 250 attendees at an international conference in Hamburg attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to current developments in particle physics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein and Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 40 attendees at the Royal Institution evening lecture series attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to current developments in particle physics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein and Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 50 attendees at an international conference in Stockholm on General Relativity attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to current developments in particle physics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein and Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 80 attendees and members of the general public at an international conference in Cheimsee, Bavaria attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to current developments in particle physics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein and music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 300 attendees at an international conference in Hamburg attended a talk in the main Hamburg concert hall illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to current developments in particle physics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 200 attendees in Hamburg attended a talk in German illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to current developments in particle physics in particular at the LHC in CERN. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 200 pupils and staff attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 90 attendess at the Gravity Fields Festival attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 140 pupils and staff attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 100 attendees at the Harrogate International Festival attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 190 pupils and staff attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 230 pupils and staff attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 50 pupils and staff attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 70 attendees at the Surrey International Music Festival attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einstein's Universe lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 425 general public attended a talk illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Einsteins Universum lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 250 general public attended a talk given in German illustrating the links between science and music and the career of Albert Einstein. Einstein's science was linked to cyrrent developments in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.einsteinsuniverse.com/ |
Description | Hosted Exhibition of Art from the Physics Department during the Oxfordshire Artweeks 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Physics Department participated in the 2018 Oxfordshire Artweeks and exhibited art pieces of members of the physics faculty in the Clarendon Building in May 2018. The event was advertised in the Artweeks booklet and webpages. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.artweeks.org/festival/search |
Description | ICFA School of Instrumentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The school is an equal opportunity event devoted to MSC and PhD students who want to acquire a deeper knowledge on the major aspects of Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies. The scientific program will integrate academic courses and state-of-art laboratory sessions by experts in detector R&D. It takes place in underdeveloped countries |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | IOP Christmas Lecture Machester, IOP East Midland Branch Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | LHC: at the frontiers of fundamental Physics The lecture sparked many questions about the future LHC physics program. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | OPMD Primary day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dancing Atoms Lab tour for Various East Oxford Schools |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | OXFEST 2019- Science for peace at the high energy frontier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about the Discovery of Higgs, CERN, and gender issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | OxFEST (Oxford Females in Engineering, Science, and Technology) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about CERN and the physics programme at the LHC. Status of women in Physics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Oxford International Masterclasses |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We organized and participated in the International Masterclasses and invited 36 students from local schools in Oxford to participate in a one day workshop where they analyzed real ATLAS data and monte carlo simulations. The workshop started with introduction presentations into PP and detectors and ended with a video conference with CERN and three other institutions in Europe. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Oxford Particle Physics Master classes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk introducing Particle Physics and CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Oxford Physics Society Talks Michaelmas 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about particle physics in ATLAS |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Oxford Physics YouTube |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Higgs Boson: What remains to be known? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTmZmKviEnc |
Description | Plenary Talk at Oxford Comic Con 2017: Particle Phsyics Astrophysics and Science Fiction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 100 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDED A TALK ON THE LATEST RESULTS IN PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY AND HOW THIS EXITING BIG SCIENCE COMPARES TO THE SCICE FOUND IN STAR WARS AND STAR TREK. THE TALK WAS PART OF OXFORD COMIC CON 2017 AND THE ORGANZIWER REPORTED THE TALKED SPARKED MANY QUESTIONS AND DISCUSIOSN AFTREWARD AND GAVE THE AUDIENCE A GREATER APPRECIATION OF SCIENCE FACT OVER SCIENCE FICTION. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Plenary Talk at Oxford ComicCon 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk on the status of cosmology and particle physics focusing on LSST and the LHC. The audience was 150 members of the general public spanning all age ranges. There was extensive interaction with the audience after the talk and some members of the audience carried on the dialogue via email in the days after the talk. I have been invited to give a repeat of the talk at the 2017 event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Primary School Outreach Activity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I presented and explained to year 6 students of the North Hinksey Primary School (2015) and our Lady's Abingdon Primary School (2016) what Particle Physics is and how we use the LHC to understand the structure of matter. This is an one hour visit where I use slides, equipment and short movies to explain particle physics, the LHC and ATLAS. I also visited the St Brendan's Sixth Form school and gave a presentation about particle physics to secondary students (45min). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
Description | STEM Primary Lecture for John Henry Newman |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dancing Atoms |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Seeking the Energy Frontier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about the LHC and HL-LHC physics program (Given at Trinity College Society, University of Cambridge, UK ) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Seeking the energy frontier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about the physics program of the LHC and HL-LHC ( given at Darwin Society, University of Cambridge, UK and Trinity College Society, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | THE DISCOVERY OR THE HIGGS BOSON AND MAPPING THE HEAVENS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A VERY RARE PUBLIC LECTURE IN ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN ON PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY THAT SPARKED MANY QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | THE FUTURE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A PLENARY OPENING LECTURE IN SAO PAOLO BRAZIL ON THE FUTIRE PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY TO STUDENTS FROM MEDICINE, ASTRONOMY, ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS THAT SPARKED MANY QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Particle Physics Christmas lecture with Oxford Alumni |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/2020/12/05/its-all-about-mass-the-2020-particle-physics-christm... |
Description | The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Maker children's activity day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Presentation about Science to Children in the London area |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | The history of the discovery of the Higgs Boson |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article on the history of the disovery of Higgs boson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://serious-science.org/higgs-boson-7555 |
Description | UNIQ Summer School - Physics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | 36 young people of University application age from underprivileged backgrounds attended an intensive, week-long course of physics. They have lectures in the morning, several difficult problem sets to complete, three days of laboratory work, and a day of explanation on what Physics is like as a subject at University. The aim of this workshop is to encourage applications to Oxbridge from students who would not normally consider such a move. This has worked in Physics as approximately 1/4 of the participants in UNIQ get a place at Oxford (we do not have data for other successes). It is also an intensive training exercise to give them a better understanding of the subject. There is extensive feedback and assessment of the course which can be obtained from the Central University administration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
Description | Univeristy STEM Holiday Programme for pegasus school |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dancing Atoms & Lab tour University for Holiday Programme of pegasus school |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Workshop on the Circular Electron-Positron Collider, EU Edition 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Workshop on the Circular Electron-Positron Collider, EU Edition 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/confs/CEPC2019/index.asp |