Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Particle physics in general and particularly the quest to elucidate the nature of the recently discovered Higgs boson are in the mainstream of current public consciousness. With the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) just about to restart with much extended energy reach to search for new phenomena, there has never been a more exciting time in the field. Birmingham has a balanced programme, exploiting both the full reach of the LHC in energy and precision, as well as other aspects of the unique capabilities of the CERN accelerator complex. We study the particle collisions and decays observed in these experiments with the aim of determining the ultimate structure of matter and the forces of nature.
Our leadership positions within the ATLAS collaboration include that of the current Spokesperson. The ATLAS Experiment is designed to explore a wealth of particle physics topics at the highest energies ever reached in the laboratory. Of the billion collisions taking place per second, only a tiny fraction can be permanently recorded and analysed. Our group built, maintains and operates a major part of the highly sophisticated on-detector electronics (trigger system) which has the task of selecting the most interesting events and reducing the data rate by a factor of 1000 within two millionths of a second after collisions take place. We are also very active in analysing the resulting data, with a particularly strong team working on the detailed properties of the Higgs boson and the production and decays of the even more massive top quark. Other studies use LHC data to provide detailed probes of the nature of the strong force holding quarks together inside the proton.
The LHC is expected to operate for a further two decades and to remain the paramount energy frontier facility in particle physics. An ambitious programme to upgrade both accelerator and detectors is underway to hugely increase the collision rate such that every year of operation after the upgrade will deliver the same amount of data as ten years before. This vastly increased amount of data gives unprecedented precision in measuring the properties of the Higgs boson (which only the LHC has the energy to produce) and in testing the theories of how mass arises in the Universe, while also allowing much greater sensitivity to physics beyond our current models. Birmingham is uniquely placed to contribute both to construction of a brand new, much more radiation-hard, tracking detector and to the upgraded trigger to handle the ten times larger data rate.
Beyond ATLAS, our second major area of activity is in understanding the complex decays of heavy quarks. At the LHCb experiment, we are investigating the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe by studying the tiny differences between the decay characteristics of bottom (b) quarks and their antiquarks. The huge rates of b quark production in LHCb (which is also being upgraded) give very high precision measurements and access to extremely rare decays, the area of particular interest in Birmingham.
Our NA62 group studies the decays of strange particles to also search for new physics such as that suggested by supersymmetric models. The SPS accelerator complex has already restarted after the long shutdown, so NA62 are commissioning their detector and preparing for studies of the ultra rare process in which a kaon decays to produce a pion and two neutrinos. This process occurs only roughly once in every 10 billion kaon decays, but this tiny rate is particularly sensitive to new physics.
Finally, the group contains key proponents of a number of possible future high energy projects, with particular emphasis on electron-positron and electron-proton colliders. We will continue in these leadership roles and be ready to step up our involvement should plans for these, or an even greater energy proton-proton collider, start to become closer to realisation.
Our leadership positions within the ATLAS collaboration include that of the current Spokesperson. The ATLAS Experiment is designed to explore a wealth of particle physics topics at the highest energies ever reached in the laboratory. Of the billion collisions taking place per second, only a tiny fraction can be permanently recorded and analysed. Our group built, maintains and operates a major part of the highly sophisticated on-detector electronics (trigger system) which has the task of selecting the most interesting events and reducing the data rate by a factor of 1000 within two millionths of a second after collisions take place. We are also very active in analysing the resulting data, with a particularly strong team working on the detailed properties of the Higgs boson and the production and decays of the even more massive top quark. Other studies use LHC data to provide detailed probes of the nature of the strong force holding quarks together inside the proton.
The LHC is expected to operate for a further two decades and to remain the paramount energy frontier facility in particle physics. An ambitious programme to upgrade both accelerator and detectors is underway to hugely increase the collision rate such that every year of operation after the upgrade will deliver the same amount of data as ten years before. This vastly increased amount of data gives unprecedented precision in measuring the properties of the Higgs boson (which only the LHC has the energy to produce) and in testing the theories of how mass arises in the Universe, while also allowing much greater sensitivity to physics beyond our current models. Birmingham is uniquely placed to contribute both to construction of a brand new, much more radiation-hard, tracking detector and to the upgraded trigger to handle the ten times larger data rate.
Beyond ATLAS, our second major area of activity is in understanding the complex decays of heavy quarks. At the LHCb experiment, we are investigating the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe by studying the tiny differences between the decay characteristics of bottom (b) quarks and their antiquarks. The huge rates of b quark production in LHCb (which is also being upgraded) give very high precision measurements and access to extremely rare decays, the area of particular interest in Birmingham.
Our NA62 group studies the decays of strange particles to also search for new physics such as that suggested by supersymmetric models. The SPS accelerator complex has already restarted after the long shutdown, so NA62 are commissioning their detector and preparing for studies of the ultra rare process in which a kaon decays to produce a pion and two neutrinos. This process occurs only roughly once in every 10 billion kaon decays, but this tiny rate is particularly sensitive to new physics.
Finally, the group contains key proponents of a number of possible future high energy projects, with particular emphasis on electron-positron and electron-proton colliders. We will continue in these leadership roles and be ready to step up our involvement should plans for these, or an even greater energy proton-proton collider, start to become closer to realisation.
Planned Impact
The Birmingham group is internationally leading in its outreach work, introducing particle physics to wide audiences of both the general public and school students. For both, there is a strong appetite to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the LHC has captured their imagination more than any previous scientific endeavour. Our work with schools (including spark chamber demonstrations) provides an exciting format for engaging students. As the IoP and other bodies have demonstrated, one effect of the high profile developed through particle physics outreach work has been a measurable increase in the numbers of students applying to study physics at University.
We provide UK leadership to the International Particle Physics Outreach Group and for International Masterclasses with one of us holding an STFC Public Engagement Fellowship. The group has applied its leading work in the development of the ATLANTIS event visualisation program to produce the MINERVA outreach tool, a simplified version of which allows the public to view ATLAS data and search for different event signatures. This Masterclass format has now been replicated nationwide and internationally, reaching over a thousand students per year across Europe and the USA. Our 'Learning with ATLAS at CERN' EU Outreach Project and the follow-up 'Discover the Cosmos' help individuals and students engage with our outreach material, while providing the basis for trained teachers to develop new resources. As well as the spark chamber, we have also developed a cosmic telescope and a large cloud chamber, which are demonstrated or loaned out to local schools and used in exhibitions.
We have provided strong support on particle physics to the Royal Society Summer Exhibitions for each of the last four years and also in 2014 were linked with the "Treating Cancer" exhibition of the Proton Radiotherapy Verification and Dosimetry Applications (PRaVDA) consortium. We also regularly appear in local, national and international TV, radio and printed media, particularly to talk about the LHC and the Higgs boson. These have ranged from the Sun newspaper to Newsnight and Reuters.
In knowledge transfer, the group constantly seeks opportunities to collaborate with partners beyond particle physics, especially based around our technical work in the areas of silicon detectors and electronics. In this context, we keep in close contact with the University's Knowledge and Technology Transfer network and with the Manufacturing Technology Catapult Centre (MTC), which was set up by the regional development agency and is part-owned by the University. Our semiconductor detector assembly facility has led to various knowledge exchange projects. Building on our expertise we are investigating applications of our ultrasonic wire bonding to implantable electrical interfaces to the nervous system. This could lead to control systems for prosthetic limbs, providing amputees with significantly increased control over their movement and a restored sense of touch and of limb position.
Further potential spin-offs are anticipated through the major expansion in our silicon detector capabilities. Initially these will build on Birmingham's involvement in the Wellcome Trust funded PRaVDA project, developing precision detectors and dosimetry for use in proton beam radiotherapy. This project makes extensive use of the Birmingham MC40 cyclotron for detector testing and radiation tolerance characterisation, something which we anticipate exploiting at a higher level in future. We expect to see follow-up funding in support of delivering monitoring systems to the new NHS proton therapy facilities at Christie Hospital Manchester and University College Hospital London. There are also plans for future collaborations to develop ionising radiation detectors in the context of novel accelerator concepts for medical applications, working closely with the experts in Medical Physics at the University Hospital Birmingham.
We provide UK leadership to the International Particle Physics Outreach Group and for International Masterclasses with one of us holding an STFC Public Engagement Fellowship. The group has applied its leading work in the development of the ATLANTIS event visualisation program to produce the MINERVA outreach tool, a simplified version of which allows the public to view ATLAS data and search for different event signatures. This Masterclass format has now been replicated nationwide and internationally, reaching over a thousand students per year across Europe and the USA. Our 'Learning with ATLAS at CERN' EU Outreach Project and the follow-up 'Discover the Cosmos' help individuals and students engage with our outreach material, while providing the basis for trained teachers to develop new resources. As well as the spark chamber, we have also developed a cosmic telescope and a large cloud chamber, which are demonstrated or loaned out to local schools and used in exhibitions.
We have provided strong support on particle physics to the Royal Society Summer Exhibitions for each of the last four years and also in 2014 were linked with the "Treating Cancer" exhibition of the Proton Radiotherapy Verification and Dosimetry Applications (PRaVDA) consortium. We also regularly appear in local, national and international TV, radio and printed media, particularly to talk about the LHC and the Higgs boson. These have ranged from the Sun newspaper to Newsnight and Reuters.
In knowledge transfer, the group constantly seeks opportunities to collaborate with partners beyond particle physics, especially based around our technical work in the areas of silicon detectors and electronics. In this context, we keep in close contact with the University's Knowledge and Technology Transfer network and with the Manufacturing Technology Catapult Centre (MTC), which was set up by the regional development agency and is part-owned by the University. Our semiconductor detector assembly facility has led to various knowledge exchange projects. Building on our expertise we are investigating applications of our ultrasonic wire bonding to implantable electrical interfaces to the nervous system. This could lead to control systems for prosthetic limbs, providing amputees with significantly increased control over their movement and a restored sense of touch and of limb position.
Further potential spin-offs are anticipated through the major expansion in our silicon detector capabilities. Initially these will build on Birmingham's involvement in the Wellcome Trust funded PRaVDA project, developing precision detectors and dosimetry for use in proton beam radiotherapy. This project makes extensive use of the Birmingham MC40 cyclotron for detector testing and radiation tolerance characterisation, something which we anticipate exploiting at a higher level in future. We expect to see follow-up funding in support of delivering monitoring systems to the new NHS proton therapy facilities at Christie Hospital Manchester and University College Hospital London. There are also plans for future collaborations to develop ionising radiation detectors in the context of novel accelerator concepts for medical applications, working closely with the experts in Medical Physics at the University Hospital Birmingham.
Publications
Aaij R
(2018)
Observation of the decay B s 0 ? D ¯ 0 K + K -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2018)
First observation of B+ ? D s + K+K- decays and a search for B+ ? D s + ? decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2018)
Observation of the decay ? b 0 ? ? c + p p ? p -
in Physics Letters B
Abramowicz H
(2018)
Combination and QCD analysis of charm and beauty production cross-section measurements in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA
in The European Physical Journal C
Abramowicz H
(2017)
Higgs physics at the CLIC electron-positron linear collider.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Allport P
(2020)
A reconfigurable CMOS sensor for tracking, pre-shower and digital electromagnetic calorimetry
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Allport P
(2019)
Applications of silicon strip and pixel-based particle tracking detectors
in Nature Reviews Physics
Allport P
(2020)
First tests of a reconfigurable depleted MAPS sensor for digital electromagnetic calorimetry
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Andreev V
(2018)
Determination of electroweak parameters in polarised deep-inelastic scattering at HERA H1 Collaboration and H. Spiesberger (Mainz)
in The European Physical Journal C
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collision data at [Formula: see text]=13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two tau leptons in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum at [Formula: see text] =13 [Formula: see text]with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Constraints on the off-shell Higgs boson signal strength in the high-mass ZZ and WW final states with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Reconstruction of hadronic decay products of tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Measurement of the transverse momentum and [Formula: see text] distributions of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry at [Formula: see text] TeV in final states with jets and two same-sign leptons or three leptons with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
A new method to distinguish hadronically decaying boosted Z bosons from W bosons using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless [Formula: see text] decays with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2016)
Searches for scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] pp collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Measurement of event-shape observables in [Formula: see text] events in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Search for an additional, heavy Higgs boson in the [Formula: see text] decay channel at [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] collision data with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Determination of spin and parity of the Higgs boson in the [Formula: see text] decay channel with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS experiment.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Measurement of the top quark mass in the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] channels using [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] ATLAS data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Batley J
(2019)
First observation and study of the K± ? p±p0e+e- decay
in Physics Letters B
Batley JR
(2019)
First observation and study of the K±?p±p0e+e- decay
in Physics Letter B788
Batley JR
(2018)
Measurement of the form factors of charged kaon semileptonic decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Brunetti M
(2018)
Search for Exotic Particles at the NA62 Experiment
in Universe
Collaboration T
(2015)
Modelling Z ? tt processes in ATLAS with t-embedded Z ? µµ data
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2019)
Resolution of the ATLAS muon spectrometer monitored drift tubes in LHC Run 2
in Journal of Instrumentation
Cortina Gil E
(2018)
Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays
in Physics Letters B
Cortina Gil E.
(2018)
Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays
in Physics Letter B778
Cortina Gil E.
(2019)
First search for K+?p+?? using the decay-in-flight technique
in Physics Letter B791
Esposito M
(2017)
Geant4-based simulations of charge collection in CMOS Active Pixel Sensors
in Journal of Instrumentation
Gonnella F
(2018)
First Results on the Rare Decay K+ ? p+?? from the NA62 Experiment at CERN
in Universe
Hara K
(2016)
Charge collection and field profile studies of heavily irradiated strip sensors for the ATLAS inner tracker upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Hommels L
(2016)
Detailed studies of full-size ATLAS12 sensors
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Husek T
(2019)
Precise Determination of the Branching Ratio of the Neutral-Pion Dalitz Decay.
in Physical review letters
Kopsalis I
(2022)
Evaluation of the DECAL Fully Depleted monolithic sensor for outer tracking and digital calorimetry
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Mikestikova M
(2016)
Study of surface properties of ATLAS12 strip sensors and their radiation resistance
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Mori R
(2016)
Evaluation of the performance of irradiated silicon strip sensors for the forward detector of the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Taylor JT
(2015)
Proton tracking for medical imaging and dosimetry.
in Journal of instrumentation : an IOP and SISSA journal
Taylor JT
(2016)
An experimental demonstration of a new type of proton computed tomography using a novel silicon tracking detector.
in Medical physics
Ullán M
(2016)
Embedded pitch adapters: A high-yield interconnection solution for strip sensors
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Ullán M
(2020)
Quality Assurance methodology for the ATLAS Inner Tracker strip sensor production
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
| Description | Multiple areas of scientific progress based on experiments at CERN, including characterisation of the Higgs boson and searches for all sorts of new physics at the energy frontier and via quantum loops in rare processes. |
| Exploitation Route | This is part of a very large ongoing scientific programme which is of interest beyond the immediate field of particle physics, including spin-offs of detector technologies into medical applications. |
| Sectors | Education,Electronics,Healthcare,Security and Diplomacy |
| Description | Discovery of the Higgs boson and many other outputs from collaborations at CERN funded through this grant have had a major impact on public understanding of / interest in science, including recruitment of young people into STEM areas. We are also attempting to apply ATLAS tracking detectors to medical imaging. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Description | Organiser of EUCARD2 "Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges" |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary meeting of primarily healthcare professionals involved with hadron radiotherapy |
| URL | http://eucard2.web.cern.ch/events/ion-beam-therapy-clinical-scientific-and-technical-challenges |
| Description | CASE Studentship |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/P002552/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Horizon 2020 |
| Amount | € 10,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | GA no. 654168 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2015 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | STFC CASE |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/P002552/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | STFC Global Challenge Network+ in Advanced Radiotherapy |
| Amount | £914,987 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/N002423/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2015 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | AIDA 2020 |
| Organisation | Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Multiple |
| PI Contribution | Provision of Transnational Access Facility MC40 |
| Collaborator Contribution | 10 MEuro Partnership on Detector R&D |
| Impact | Radiation hardness of two CMOS prototypes for the ATLAS HL-LHC upgrade project / Huffman, B T (U. Oxford (main)) ; Affolder, A (U. Liverpool (main)) ; Arndt, K (U. Oxford (main)) ; Bates, R (Glasgow U.) ; Benoit, M (U. Geneva (main)) ; Di Bello, F (U. Geneva (main)) ; Blue, A (Glasgow U.) ; Bortoletto, D (U. Oxford (main)) ; Buckland, M (U. Liverpool (main) ; CERN) ; Buttar, C (Glasgow U.) et al. The LHC luminosity upgrade, known as the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), will require the replacement of the existing silicon strip tracker and the transistion radiation tracker. Although a baseline design for this tracker exists the ATLAS collaboration and other non-ATLAS groups are exploring the feasibility of using CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) which would be arranged in a strip-like fashion and would take advantage of the service and support structure already being developed for the upgrade. [...] AIDA-2020-PUB-2016-011.- Geneva : CERN, 2016 - 14 p. - Published in : J. Instrum. 11 (2016) C02005 IOP Open Access article: PDF; In : Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2015, pp.C02005 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ATLAS ITK |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Chair of the Institute Board with 100 international members |
| Collaborator Contribution | International programme on Tracker Upgrade with 100 institutes from 22 countries working towards the 120MCHF (equipment costs only does not include salaries) main upgrade programme of ATLAS for the HL-LHC |
| Impact | Particle Physics |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | ELIGHT |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN - Other |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Proton Therapy within PRaVDA and STFC Network+ |
| Collaborator Contribution | See link below |
| Impact | Hadron radiotherapy and novel detector developments. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Global Challenge Network+ in Advanced Radiotherapy |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I am one of the project managers for the Network+. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Led from the Christie Hospital |
| Impact | http://ctrad.ncri.org.uk/events/ion-beam-therapy-clinical-scientific-and-technical-challenges |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | "Task 11.5: UoB MC40 Cyclotron, United Kingdom" (AIDA-2020 First Annual Workshop, DESY 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Horizon 2020 European Union funded AIDA-2020 proposal (GA no. 654168) with €10M in support of detector R&D |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://aida2020.web.cern.ch/content/uob |
| Description | A Reconfigurable CMOS Sensor for Tracking, Pre-Shower and Digital Electromagnetic Calorimetry Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hiroshima Semiconductor Tracknig Detector Conference HSTD20 (16/12/19) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/803258/ |
| Description | CMOS Sensors for Future Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised workshop and presented on DECAL MAPS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/477242/ |
| Description | Detector R&D for Collider and Underground Experiments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EPS-HEP Conference 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://eps-hep2017.eu/ |
| Description | Detector Technologies for Future Colliders (Strategic Workshop on High Energy Particle Physics, Zurich 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation and seminar at workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | FCC conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary Presentation to the FCC Meeting on Rome on the FCC-hh Detector Concept |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/438866/ |
| Description | From HL-LHC to Hadron Therapy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Advanced Oncotherapy Ltd, Director of STFC Laboratories, Director of Daresbury, Head of STFC CMOS Imaging Sensor Design Group and leads on detector development at Daresbury |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | From Hadron Colldiers to Hadron Therapy Seminar RHUL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | HEP Group Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | From Higgs to Healthcare (Oxford University Seminar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar Oxford Physics Department |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | From High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider to Hadron Therapy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited colloquium at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (28/3/2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hunting for the Higgs Boson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy organised Neston High School Visit to CERN l6th June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Impact Of The Innovations In Semiconductor Advanced Technology On The Tracking Concepts In Fundamental Research |
| 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 | Invited keynote talk 5th Summer School on Intelligent Signal processing for Frontier research and industry, , Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/683620/ |
| Description | LHC Detector Upgrades 10th Annual Meeting of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", Hamburg 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at DESY |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Neston School Visit to CERN |
| 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 | School visit to CERN and meeting with Birmingham undergraduates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Overview of Particle Physics to Teledyne e2v Ltd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation on 23rd October 2017 to Teledyne e2v Ltd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Proton Computed Tomography with Particle Physics Tracking Detectors, Fast timing silicon pixel detectors for new applications: proton therapy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fast timing silicon pixel detectors for new applications: proton therapy This one-day community consultation workshop aims to explore possible applications in proton therapy of silicon pixel detectors with precise timing capabilities. 22/11/19 University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/853133/overview |
| Description | Radiotherapy Applications of Particle Tracking Detectors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | STFC Cancer Diagnostic Network+ College Court Conference Centre, Leicester 20/01/20 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/stfccancerdiagnosis/home/workshops |
| Description | School Talk Sedbergh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Higgs discovery at Sedbergh School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | School Talk to West Kirby Grammar School for girls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of state of the art on particle physics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SiW ECAL studies for FCC-hh and their implications for FCC-ee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 3rd FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop, 13-17 January 2020, CERN. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/838435/ |
| Description | Silicon Tracking Detectors for Hadron Beam Monitoring and Imaging (Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges, Birmingham 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organiser and presenter at workshop on applications of particle physics technologies to hadron radiotherapy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ctrad.ncri.org.uk/events/ion-beam-therapy-clinical-scientific-and-technical-challenges |
| Description | Talk to Weatherhead High School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk on particle physics to Weatherhead High School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |