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
Thorpe C
(2021)
Second class currents, axial mass, and nuclear effects in hyperon production
in Physical Review C
Madigozhin D
(2022)
New measurement of the K+ ? p+µ+µ- decay
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Cortina Gil E
(2022)
Searches for lepton number violating K+ ? p-(p0)e+e+ decays
in Physics Letters B
Cortina Gil E
(2023)
A search for the K+ ? µ-?e+e+ decay
in Physics Letters B
Allega A
(2023)
Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors Using Pure Water at SNO.
in Physical review letters
Allega A
(2022)
Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO + detector
in Physical Review D
Aliberti R
(2021)
Search for Lepton Number and Flavor Violation in K^{+} and p^{0} Decays.
in Physical review letters
Abratenko P
(2023)
Measurement of neutral current single p 0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector
in Physical Review D
Abratenko P
(2020)
Measurement of differential cross sections for ? µ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector
in Physical Review D
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/ |