Consolidated Grant New Applicant Scheme (The study of elementary particles and their interactions - ST/N000242/1)

作为伦敦帝国理工学院的新成员，Antonin Vacheret博士获得了新申请人计划下的综合资助（CG）级别的支持。我在帝国理工学院的研究主要集中在两个领域：即SoLid和LUX/Zeplin实验。SoLid是位于比利时摩尔的SCK CEN BR 2研究反应堆上的一个新的超短基线反应堆中微子实验。它将使一个强大的核反应堆堆芯附近（5- 10米）的电子反中微子通量和能谱的精确测量。这将使过去和现在的多个实验所观察到的“中微子异常”得以详细探索。特别是，将先前的结果解释为无菌中微子的证据将受到挑战，实验能够在整个相关参数空间中提供排除。它还将通过测量几乎纯的235 U反中微子通量来提高对反应堆通量形状的理解，这是动力反应堆反中微子通量计算的关键因素。SoLid是一项“英国实验”，最初由英国物理学家提出和设计。现在，它是一个国际合作，来自欧洲和美国11个研究所的50人。Solid是帝国理工的新成员，但我从项目开始就一直是UK-PI，目前我是实验的发言人。我负责建造五个探测器模块中的两个，并为整个实验提供电子设备和DAQ。这项工作的很大一部分将在帝国完成。SoLid实验的第一阶段目前正在建设中，计划于2017年初开始数据采集。LUX/Zeplin是最大的下一代直接暗物质搜索实验。它将使用7吨液态氙，试图探测银河系暗物质和常规物质之间微弱的相互作用。这将是在10 GeV WIMP质量以上区域最灵敏的暗物质实验。帝国理工学院LUX/Zeplin小组已经积极参与了实验的建设。我的工作将是承担英国数据中心的组织工作，为2019年的数据采集做准备。

This is Consolidated Grant (CG)-level support under the New Applicant scheme for Dr Antonin Vacheret as a new member of academic staff at Imperial College London.My research at Imperial focuses on two areas: namely the SoLid and LUX/Zeplin experiments.SoLid is a new ultra-short-baseline reactor neutrino experiment at the SCK CEN BR2 research reactor located in Mol, Belgium. It will make a precision measurement of the electron antineutrino flux and energy spectrum close (5-10m) to a powerful nuclear reactor core. This will allow the 'neutrino anomalies' observed by multiple past and current experiments to be explored in detail. In particular, the interpretation of previous results as evidence for sterile neutrinos will be challenged, with the experiment able to provide exclusion over the entire relevant parameter space. It will also improve the understanding of the reactor flux shape by measuring an almost pure 235U antineutrino flux, a key ingredient of the power reactor antineutrino flux calculation. SoLid is a 'UK experiment'; it was originally proposed and designed by UK physicists. It is now an international collaboration with 50 people from 11 institutes in Europe and the US. SoLid is new at Imperial but I have been the UK-PI since the beginning of the project and I am currently the Spokesperson of the experiment. I am responsible for the construction of two of the five detector modules and the delivery of the electronics and DAQ for the full experiment. A large part of this work will be done at Imperial. Phase One of the SoLid experiment is currently under construction and is planned to start data-taking in early 2017.LUX/Zeplin is the biggest next generation direct dark matter search experiment. It will use seven tonnes of liquid xenon in an attempt to detect faint interactions between galactic dark matter and regular matter. It will be the most sensitive dark matter experiment in the region above 10 GeV WIMP mass. The Imperial College LUX/Zeplin group is already heavily involved in the construction of the experiment. My work will be to take on the organization of the UK data center in preparation for data taking in 2019