2012 Consolidated Grant Supplement
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Support for consumables and travel on 2012 CG
Planned Impact
Our innovations are finding applications of benefit to UK plc and the public. Highlights include:
1. Our joint projects with e2v on the production of sensor technologies has brought this UK company to the point it can bid for contracts against Hamamatsu Photonics
2. Our relationship with Micron Semiconductor Ltd has enabled the UK to retain its leadership in the production of detectors for a wide variety of applications for aerospace and reactor monitoring.
3. Working with electronics companies we have enabled them to bid for major EU contracts.
a. Stevenage Circuits, with whom we developed the LHCb VELO readout hybrids, have extended these ultra reliable processes for the ATLAS tracker upgrade.
b. Hawk Electronics who worked with us on the VELO, won an industry award, and is now bidding for large EU contracts (see http://www.hawkelectronics.co.uk/)
4. We are adapting T2K technology towards a robust, cost effective antineutrino detector for passive reactor monitoring. This IAEA promoted activity addresses non-proliferation security in an environment of Global Uncertainty.
5. Our LHCb VELO detectors have been qualified and are being installed as a permanent beam monitor at Clatterbridge Oncology Unit.
6. Collaborating in an EU programme we are developing a modular, mobile neutron detection system for locating fissile materials e.g. at ports of entry, an important contribution to Homeland Security.
7. Our new foray into ground based detection of dark energy using atom interferometers has attracted AWE interest and support towards further applications.
8. In 2003 we founded the AiMes Institute for exploitation of Grid technologies which had a £20M footprint and seed-corn funding from NWDA and the EU. As well as seeding e-business related companies and winning entrepreneur awards, the Institute itself eventually became a commercial, award winning company http://www.aimesgridservices.com/.
We are extremely fortunate to have as a member of staff Dr. Tara Shears wo is one of the most popular communicators of particle physics in the country. She is regularly interviewed in the national press and appears frequently on local and national radio and television. Tara is part of the public face of CERN and appears in short popular science films, one of which was shortlisted in the best popular science section of the national network NHK (Japan, 2011). She is highly in demand as an expert commentator on physics with a notable presence and following on YouTube and Twitter. Other members of our staff have appeared in ad-hoc interviews round the world including Greek and Russian Television and national press.
We work closely with the University's Corporate Communications Department to ensure that the particle physics message is communicated round the world. For example at the most recent Higgs announcement Liverpool staff members had substantial coverage in the press, including on the front page of Financial Times, attracting congratulatory comments from Hong Kong financiers, and on Radio 4 and Television.
The group organized a short workshop with our Corporate Communications and the Interactions Collaboration at Liverpool . We have a policy of ensuring that opinion makers, industrialists and MPs are invited to CERN and are able to discuss with students, technical staff and researchers. We have participated in the House of Commons exchange scheme where one of our staff members spends a week at Westminster and, in return, an MP spends time in our Laboratory.
We have an active programme with Schools, from Masterclass events and talks, inviting local schools to CERN and in the last 4 years creating a CERN based Summer School for the brightest pre-university students. We also run a 4 week Nuffield course at Liverpool for school children considering a career in Science. Phil Allport has played a major role in IoP activities and is well known on Merseyside acting as an official Ambassador for the region.
1. Our joint projects with e2v on the production of sensor technologies has brought this UK company to the point it can bid for contracts against Hamamatsu Photonics
2. Our relationship with Micron Semiconductor Ltd has enabled the UK to retain its leadership in the production of detectors for a wide variety of applications for aerospace and reactor monitoring.
3. Working with electronics companies we have enabled them to bid for major EU contracts.
a. Stevenage Circuits, with whom we developed the LHCb VELO readout hybrids, have extended these ultra reliable processes for the ATLAS tracker upgrade.
b. Hawk Electronics who worked with us on the VELO, won an industry award, and is now bidding for large EU contracts (see http://www.hawkelectronics.co.uk/)
4. We are adapting T2K technology towards a robust, cost effective antineutrino detector for passive reactor monitoring. This IAEA promoted activity addresses non-proliferation security in an environment of Global Uncertainty.
5. Our LHCb VELO detectors have been qualified and are being installed as a permanent beam monitor at Clatterbridge Oncology Unit.
6. Collaborating in an EU programme we are developing a modular, mobile neutron detection system for locating fissile materials e.g. at ports of entry, an important contribution to Homeland Security.
7. Our new foray into ground based detection of dark energy using atom interferometers has attracted AWE interest and support towards further applications.
8. In 2003 we founded the AiMes Institute for exploitation of Grid technologies which had a £20M footprint and seed-corn funding from NWDA and the EU. As well as seeding e-business related companies and winning entrepreneur awards, the Institute itself eventually became a commercial, award winning company http://www.aimesgridservices.com/.
We are extremely fortunate to have as a member of staff Dr. Tara Shears wo is one of the most popular communicators of particle physics in the country. She is regularly interviewed in the national press and appears frequently on local and national radio and television. Tara is part of the public face of CERN and appears in short popular science films, one of which was shortlisted in the best popular science section of the national network NHK (Japan, 2011). She is highly in demand as an expert commentator on physics with a notable presence and following on YouTube and Twitter. Other members of our staff have appeared in ad-hoc interviews round the world including Greek and Russian Television and national press.
We work closely with the University's Corporate Communications Department to ensure that the particle physics message is communicated round the world. For example at the most recent Higgs announcement Liverpool staff members had substantial coverage in the press, including on the front page of Financial Times, attracting congratulatory comments from Hong Kong financiers, and on Radio 4 and Television.
The group organized a short workshop with our Corporate Communications and the Interactions Collaboration at Liverpool . We have a policy of ensuring that opinion makers, industrialists and MPs are invited to CERN and are able to discuss with students, technical staff and researchers. We have participated in the House of Commons exchange scheme where one of our staff members spends a week at Westminster and, in return, an MP spends time in our Laboratory.
We have an active programme with Schools, from Masterclass events and talks, inviting local schools to CERN and in the last 4 years creating a CERN based Summer School for the brightest pre-university students. We also run a 4 week Nuffield course at Liverpool for school children considering a career in Science. Phil Allport has played a major role in IoP activities and is well known on Merseyside acting as an official Ambassador for the region.
People |
ORCID iD |
Themistocles Bowcock (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the inelastic pp cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the ?b? baryon.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation using T-odd correlations in D 0 ? K + K -p+p- decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the D ± production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Searches for Majorana neutrinos in B - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Precision measurement of the ?b(0) baryon lifetime.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2012)
First observation of the decay B s 0 ? K ? 0 K ¯ ? 0
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for D ( s ) + ? p + µ + µ - and D ( s ) + ? p - µ + µ + decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the branching fraction ratio B ( B c + ? ? ( 2 S ) p + ) / B ( B c + ? J / ? p + )
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2020)
Erratum to: Measurement of $$\psi (2S)$$ meson production in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\,\hbox {TeV}$$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the B 0 - B ¯ 0 oscillation frequency ? m d with the decays B 0 ? D - p + and B 0 ? J / ? K ? 0
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Evidence for the decay B 0 ? J / ? ? and measurement of the relative branching fractions of B s 0 meson decays to J / ? ? and J / ? ? '
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2012)
Search for the X ( 4140 ) state in B + ? J / ? ? K + decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for the rare decay D 0 ? µ + µ -
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of C P violation in B s 0 ? ? ? decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Analysis of the resonant components in B ¯ 0 ? J / ? p + p -
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2015)
Angular analysis of the B0 ? K*0e+e- decay in the low-q2 region
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2012)
Evidence for CP violation in time-integrated D0?h(-)h(+) decay rates.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of C P violation parameters in B 0 ? D K * 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2012)
Strong constraints on the rare decays B(s)(0) ? µ+ µ- and B0 ? µ+ µ-.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
A study of CP violation in B±?DK± and B±?Dp± decays with D ? K S 0 K ± p ± final states
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of ?(2S) meson production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\ \mbox{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaij R
(2015)
Quantum numbers of the X ( 3872 ) state and orbital angular momentum in its ? 0 J / ? decay
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the lifetime of the B c + meson using the B c + ? J / ? p + decay mode
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the Bs(0)?µ+ µ- branching fraction and search for B(0)?µ+ µ- decays at the LHCb experiment.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of Bc+ Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at v[s]=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the CP asymmetry in B(+)?K(+)µ(+)µ(-) decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Studies of beauty baryon decays to D 0 p h - and ? c + h - final states
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2016)
Measurement of the B s 0 ? D s ( * ) + D s ( * ) - branching fractions
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Study of J/? production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at $ \sqrt{ {{s_{NN }}}} $ = 5 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in B 0 ? J / ? K S 0 decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Model-independent search for CP violation in D 0 ? K - K + p - p + and D 0 ? p - p + p + p - decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the effective B s 0 ? J / ? K S 0 lifetime
in Nuclear Physics B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the ? b (3P) mass and of the relative rate of ? b1(1P) and ? b2(1P) production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2015)
Observation of the decay B ? s 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) K + p -
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2012)
Measurement of the effective B s 0 ? K + K - lifetime
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2016)
Study of ?(2S) production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at s N N = 5 $$ \sqrt{s_{N\;N}}=5 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2016)
Measurement of the Difference of Time-Integrated CP Asymmetries in D^{0}?K^{-}K^{+} and D^{0}?p^{-}p^{+} Decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the ratio of B c + branching fractions to J / ? p + and J / ? µ + ? µ final states
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2016)
Study of D sJ (*) + mesons decaying to D * + K S 0 and D *0 K + final states
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2012)
A model-independent Dalitz plot analysis of B ± ? D K ± with D ? K S 0 h + h - ( h = p , K ) decays and constraints on the CKM angle ?
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2015)
First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B s 0 ? D s * ± K ±
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of C P violation and the B s 0 meson decay width difference with B s 0 ? J / ? K + K - and B s 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Studies of the decays B + ? p p ¯ h + and observation of B + ? ? ¯ ( 1520 ) p
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2015)
Study of B - ? D K - p + p - and B - ? D p - p + p - decays and determination of the CKM angle ?
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Measurement of the ?(b)(0), ? (b)(-), and O(b((-) Baryon masses.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the B¯s° meson lifetime in Ds?p? decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2013)
Study of B 0 ? D * - p + p - p + and B 0 ? D * - K + p - p + decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2013)
Search for direct CP violation in D 0 ? h - h + modes using semileptonic B decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2015)
Study of W boson production in association with beauty and charm
in Physical Review D
Description | See 2012-2016 Consolidated Grant ST/K001418/1 |
Exploitation Route | Joint funding of PhD Students |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Security and Diplomacy |
Description | See ST/K-1418/1 Cultural outputs include the Museum exhibits and the London Science Museum ("Collider"and the "World a Particle" at the Victoria Gallery and Museum Liverpool |
First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
Description | Collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) |
Organisation | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Creation of the partnership |
Collaborator Contribution | We have started a partnership in 2 main areas. First with the MicroSystems Division (CMM). Previous staff member Prof. G. Casse became director in 2016. We have expanded this to deep learning with their IT departmetmn |
Impact | Award of STFC CDT, collabrateion with Microsoft. This multi-disiplinary and impacts health. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Pixel Tiles |
Organisation | University of Glasgow |
Department | Physics and Astronomy Department |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Liverpool helped model, design, and test pixel sensors from a number of manufactureres including Micron Semiconductors. Our focus was on producting radiation hard sensors. The collaboration produced the first prototypes for two of the major CERN detectorss (LHCb and ATLAS). |
Collaborator Contribution | Both Manchester and Glagow contributed variants of the designs and different technologies. These were use by Glasgow with application to the ATLAS detectors at CERN and with Manchester to the LHCb detector at CERN. |
Impact | The UK was able to capture the design and fabrication of sensors and modules for the LHCb detectors uipgrade at CERN and be the major lead int he design and construction of the pixel endcap for ATLAS |
Start Year | 2010 |
Description | Pixel Tiles |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Liverpool helped model, design, and test pixel sensors from a number of manufactureres including Micron Semiconductors. Our focus was on producting radiation hard sensors. The collaboration produced the first prototypes for two of the major CERN detectorss (LHCb and ATLAS). |
Collaborator Contribution | Both Manchester and Glagow contributed variants of the designs and different technologies. These were use by Glasgow with application to the ATLAS detectors at CERN and with Manchester to the LHCb detector at CERN. |
Impact | The UK was able to capture the design and fabrication of sensors and modules for the LHCb detectors uipgrade at CERN and be the major lead int he design and construction of the pixel endcap for ATLAS |
Start Year | 2010 |