Lancaster Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019-22
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The main objectives are to explore the fundamental constituents of matter, their properties and interactions through experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the CERN North Area and a group of Neutrino experiments at different facilities. The questions addressed are: the search for new particles and forces, both directly and via their quantum mechanical effects; how the Universe came to be made of matter alone, and not a mixture of matter and antimatter that swiftly annihilated itself; whether the world we live in really only has 3 dimensions of space and one of time; and to discover what the dark matter know about by observations in astronomy is made up of. The work will also drive detector development and new processes, and new computing and software techniques.
Planned Impact
The primary impact is societal, with an extensive programme of public engagement with schools and the general public. We have also been working with companies in our detector development and our computing developments.
Organisations
Publications
Aaboud M
(2021)
Measurement of the relative B c ± / B ± production cross section with the ATLAS detector at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2021)
Search for chargino-neutralino pair production in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2022)
Emulating the impact of additional proton-proton interactions in the ATLAS simulation by presampling sets of inelastic Monte Carlo events
in Computing and Software for Big Science
Aad G
(2021)
Evidence for Higgs boson decays to a low-mass dilepton system and a photon in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2021)
Two-particle azimuthal correlations in photonuclear ultraperipheral Pb + Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with ATLAS
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2021)
Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ TeV $$pp$$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2021)
Measurement of single top-quark production in association with a W boson in the single-lepton channel at $$\sqrt{s} = 8\,\text {TeV}$$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2022)
Performance of the ATLAS Level-1 topological trigger in Run 2
in The European Physical Journal C
| Description | Newton RCUK-CONACYT Cost-efficient and radiation-tolerant pixel detectors for ionising radiation based on thin-film technology |
| Amount | £339,403 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/P003052/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 04/2019 |
| Description | WOMAD 2020 |
| 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 | Online replacement for the World of Physics in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://athome.womad.co.uk/world-of-physics-at-home/ |