Particle Physics Capital Equipment Request

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The following information is reproduced from the RHUL Group's2015 Consolidated Grant application:Experimental particle physics addresses some of the fundamentalquestions about the structure and behaviour of the Universe at thelevel of the smallest particles of matter, the quarks and the leptons,and the forces acting between them. We are exploring fundamentalproperties of particles at the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) andalso exploring the nature of dark matter and neutrinos by developingand employing novel detection systems.We are contributing to the continued operation of the ATLAS project atthe Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We have constructed andcommissioned electronic systems and the software that drives them.From the beginning of data taking we have played a leading role insearches for exotic particles, the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson,and studies of properties of the top quark. We are preparing for therenewed data taking starting in 2015 with further analyses on theseand related topics.Although there is ample indirect evidence for the existence of darkmatter is inferred from its gravitational interactions, it has not yetbeen directly detected in terrestrial laboratories. Direct detectionexperiments seek to observe dark matter scattering on target detectornuclei. We explore these issues through a world-leading dark mattersearch on DEAP/CLEAN, a liquid Argon detector with unique potentialfor scaling to multi-tonne masses, with the DMTPC detector developmentprogramme to measure the dark matter wind, and the Lux-Zeplinexperiment. The group's expertise in high pressure TPCs is now beingutilised to carry out measurements relevant to the study of neutrinosas part of the Hyper-K experiment.Our expertise in accelerator science will allow us to carry outstudies for the machine-detector interface for the High Luminosity LHCand ILC. We will also expand the interactions between ourphenomenology group and the experimental community.