Research in High Energy Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Investigation into the properties of elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature. Precision tests of the Standard Model (SM); searches for new phenomena and extensions to the SM; studies of CP violation in the b-system; measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters; WIMP dark matter searches, preparations for future experiments, including HL-LHC, feasibility studies for future neutrino factories, double-beta decay experiments, gravitational wave detectors and linear colliders.
Studentship Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST/N504336/1 | 01/10/2015 | 31/03/2021 | |||
| 1811339 | Studentship | ST/N504336/1 | 01/10/2016 | 31/05/2020 | Artur SZTUC |
| Description | Compute Canada |
| Organisation | Compute Canada |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The T2K collaboration acknowledges the computing contributions from Compute Canada by referencing and acknowledgements in high-impact papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Compute Canada provided me with enormous computing resources that enabled me to produce world-leading neutrino oscillation results that will be published in Nature |
| Impact | The outcome this partnership was producing world-leading constraints on the charge-parity violating parameter in neutrino sector. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | EGADS |
| Organisation | University of Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Helping with the detector data-taking |
| Collaborator Contribution | EGADS is a smaller collaboration that nevertheless has contributions from many international partners. These contributions include parts of the equipment, people-power, computing resources and laboratory space. |
| Impact | EGADS has done critical research that has paved a future path for large water-cherenkov neutrino collaborations like Super-Kamiokande. This research will greatly improve physics-research via enhancing the water properties of these larger collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Super-Kamiokande Collaboration |
| Organisation | Super-Kamiokande |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Data analysis, help with detector refurbishment/manual labour, hardware installation and physics analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | There are many partners that contribute the hardware/detector technologies, people-power for running the experiment and analyses, as well as the computing power. |
| Impact | The experiment outputs many papers every year contributing to different areas of physics, including high energy particle physics, proton decay, dark matter search, and novel detector/calibration technologies. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | T2K Collaboration |
| Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Main data analysis for the flagship experimental results, to be published in the Nature paper. |
| Collaborator Contribution | T2K is a huge and complicated experiment that has many partners all over the world contributing to the computing resources, on-site shifts taking, providing equipment and hardware, people-power for physics and data analysis. |
| Impact | The T2K experiment outputs many varied results that contribute to different disciplines of physics every year. The main yearly results are towards the high energy physics, nuclear physics and detector development/engineering. |
| Start Year | 2017 |