UCL Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant (2019-2022)

伦敦大学学院实验粒子物理综合资助（2019-2022）

• 批准号: ST/S000666/1
• 负责人: Chamkaur Ghag
• 金额: $ 486.64万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FS000666%2F1
• 关键词: UCL; Experimental; Particle; Physics; Consolidated

Experimental particle physics studies extremely small sizes, or equivalently extremely high energies. We are seeking to understand the underlying nature of the physical universe in terms of fundamental forces and particles to answer the simple question: how did our universe evolve to allow life.Experiments capable of reaching these extremes of energy & size are very technically demanding. The challenges include devising precision detectors which can operate in hostile environments, particle accelerators which can collide beams at very high energies, super-sensitive detectors capable of identifying very rare decays, high-speed electronics which can read out millions of pieces of information per second & software which can analyse petabytes of data in a distributed fashion. Particle physics thereby stimulates a variety of important technological developments. This is a "consolidated grant", underpinning the base of highly skilled research & technical staff which allows UCL to lead projects at the very highest levels. It provides the support that allows the group to effectively train PhD students & young post-doctoral researchers. The science this grant will support includes:- Understanding the properties and exact nature of the Higgs boson, searching for evidence of new physics at the LHC, and upgrading the ATLAS experiment.- Understanding why we live in a universe that is dominated by matter with only a tiny anti-matter component, in contrast to the conditions immediately following the Big Bang. We will study in detail the properties of the neutrino, which is a stable, uncharged, almost massless particle released in radioactive beta decays. The neutrino is being studied with the NOvA and CHIPS experiments, and in the near future with the massive DUNE experiment that we will be helping to construct. UCL will also be analysing data from the SuperNEMO experiment, which will search for the incredibly rare process whereby two simultaneous beta-decays occur inside the nucleus. Examining such decays will yield fundamental insights into the nature of the neutrino.- Seeking evidence for the dark matter, that makes up the vast majority of the matter in the universe, with the LZ experiment that is sensitive to rare and absolutely tiny signatures that dark matter particles in our galaxy would leave if they were to bounce off regular atoms in the detector. - Searching for phenomena at extremely high energies, well beyond the reach of man-made accelerators like the LHC. We are searching for the interactions of ultra-high energy neutrinos in the Antarctic ice using the ANITA experiment- Looking for evidence of an exceedingly rare process whereby a muon (a heavier version of the electron) spontaneously converts into three electrons; observation of this process would be a clear indication of new physics not described in the Standard Model of particle physics.- Developing new accelerator and detector technologies for future experiments. We need to build higher energy colliders, and giant detectors able to detect neutrino beams fired over large distances, as well as 10-times larger underground detectors to continue the search for rare processes. These crucial science goals require the realisation of new detectors with unprecedented performance and which can be scaled-up effectively and affordably.- Sharing the results of our work with other scientists and industry. Our accelerator and radiation measurement expertise can be applied to the fields of nuclear medicine, security, and food safety. We also cooperate with instrument manufacturers in order to develop better products for our own research and for other scientific and industrial users.Some of this work is funded by other grants but is underpinned by the technical expertise that is supported by this consolidated grant. Continuity & support for the technical base in the UCL High Energy Physics Group is vital to progress the science & the benefits that it brings.

实验粒子物理学研究极小的尺寸，或相当于极高的能量。我们正试图从基本力和粒子的角度来理解物理宇宙的潜在本质，以回答一个简单的问题：我们的宇宙是如何进化到允许生命存在的。能够达到这些极端能量和尺寸的实验在技术上要求很高。挑战包括设计能够在恶劣环境中运行的精密探测器，能够以极高能量碰撞光束的粒子加速器，能够识别非常罕见的衰减的超敏感探测器，能够每秒读取数百万条信息的高速电子设备以及能够以分布式方式分析pb数据的软件。因此，粒子物理学刺激了各种重要技术的发展。这是一项“综合拨款”，为高技能的研究和技术人员奠定基础，使伦敦大学学院能够在最高水平上领导项目。它提供了支持，使集团有效地培养博士生和年轻的博士后研究人员。这笔拨款将支持的科学包括：-了解希格斯玻色子的性质和确切性质，在大型强子对撞机中寻找新物理学的证据，以及升级ATLAS实验。-理解为什么我们生活在一个由物质主导的宇宙中，只有很少的反物质成分，而不是大爆炸之后的情况。我们将详细研究中微子的性质，中微子是一种稳定的、不带电的、几乎没有质量的粒子，在放射性衰变中释放出来。中微子正在通过NOvA和CHIPS实验进行研究，在不久的将来，我们将帮助建立大规模的DUNE实验。伦敦大学学院还将分析来自SuperNEMO实验的数据，该实验将寻找原子核内同时发生两种β衰变的罕见过程。研究这种衰变将对中微子的本质产生根本性的见解。-寻找暗物质存在的证据，暗物质构成了宇宙中绝大多数的物质，LZ实验对我们星系中的暗物质粒子在探测器中被常规原子反射后留下的罕见且绝对微小的特征非常敏感。-寻找能量极高的现象，远远超出了大型强子对撞机等人造加速器的范围。我们正在利用ANITA实验寻找南极冰层中超高能中微子的相互作用——寻找一种极其罕见的过程的证据，即一个μ子（电子的一种较重的版本）自发地转化为三个电子；对这一过程的观察将清楚地表明粒子物理学标准模型中没有描述的新物理学。-为未来的实验开发新的加速器和探测器技术。我们需要建造更高能量的对撞机，以及能够探测远距离发射的中微子束的巨型探测器，以及十倍大的地下探测器，以继续寻找罕见的过程。这些关键的科学目标需要实现具有前所未有性能的新探测器，并且可以有效地和负担得起地扩大规模。-与其他科学家和业界分享我们的工作成果。我们的加速器和辐射测量专业知识可应用于核医学、安全、食品安全等领域。我们还与仪器制造商合作，为我们自己的研究和其他科学和工业用户开发更好的产品。其中一些工作由其他赠款资助，但得到这项综合赠款支持的技术专门知识的支持。对伦敦大学学院高能物理小组的技术基础的连续性和支持对于科学的进步及其带来的好处至关重要。

项目成果

The magnet of the scattering and neutrino detector for the SHiP experiment at CERN

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/01/p01027
• 发表时间: 2020-01
• 期刊: Journal of Instrumentation
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: C. Ahdida;R. Albanese;A. Alexandrov;A. Anokhina;S. Aoki;G. Arduini;E. Atkin;N. Azorskiy;J. Back;A. Bagulya;F. D. Santos;A. Baranov;F. Bardou;G. Barker;M. Battistin;J. Bauche;A. Bay;V. Bayliss;G. Bencivenni;A. Berdnikov;Y. Berdnikov;I. Berezkina;M. Bertani;C. Betancourt;I. Bezshyiko;O. Bezshyyko;D. Bick;S. Bieschke;A. Blanco;J. Boehm;M. Bogomilov;K. Bondarenko;W. Bonivento;J. Borburgh;A. Boyarsky;A. Boyarsky;R. Brenner;D. Breton;R. Brundler;M. Bruschi;V. Büscher;A. Buonaura;S. Buontempo;S. Cadeddu;A. Calcaterra;M. Calviani;M. Campanelli;M. Casolino;N. Charitonidis;P. Chau;J. Chauveau;A. Chepurnov;M. Chernyavskiy;K. Choi;A. Chumakov;P. Ciambrone;L. Congedo;K. Cornelis;M. Cristinziani;A. Crupano;G. Dallavalle;A. Datwyler;N. D’Ambrosio;G. D’Appollonio;J. Saraiva;G. Lellis;M. Magistris;A. Roeck;M. Serio;D. Simone;L. Dedenko;P. Dergachev;A. Crescenzo;C. Dib;H. Dijkstra;P. Dipinto;V. Dmitrenko;S. Dmitrievskiy;L. Dougherty;A. Dolmatov;D. Domenici;S. Donskov;V. Drohan;A. Dubreuil;M. Ehlert;T. Enik;A. Etenko;A. Etenko;F. Fabbri;L. Fabbri;A. Fabich;O. Fedin;F. Fedotovs;G. Felici;M. Ferro-Luzzi;K. Filippov;R. Fini;P. Fonte;C. Franco;M. Fraser;R. Fresa;R. Froeschl;T. Fukuda;G. Galati;J. Gall;L. Gatignon;G. Gavrilov;V. Gentile;S. Gerlach;B. Goddard;L. Golinka-Bezshyyko;A. Golovatiuk;D. Golubkov;A. Golutvin;P. Gorbounov;D. Gorbunov;S. Gorbunov;V. Gorkavenko;Y. Gornushkin;M. Gorshenkov;V. Grachev;A. Grandchamp;G. Granich;E. Graverini;J. Grenard;D. Grenier;V. Grichine;N. Gruzinskii;A. Guler;Y. Guz;G. Haefeli;C. Hagner;H. Hakobyan;I. Harris;E. Herwijnen;C. Hessler;A. Hollnagel;B. Hosseini;M. Hushchyn;G. Iaselli;A. Iuliano;V. Ivantchenko;R. Jacobsson;D. Joković;M. Jonker;I. Kadenko;V. Kain;B. Kaiser;Ç. Kamışcıoğlu;K. Kershaw;M. Khabibullin;E. Khalikov;G. Khaustov;G. Khoriauli;A. Khotyantsev;S. Kim;Y. G. Kim;V. Kim;N. Kitagawa;J. Ko;K. Kodama;A. Kolesnikov;D. Kolev;V. Kolosov;M. Komatsu;N. Kondrateva;A. Kono;N. Konovalova;N. Konovalova;S. Kormannshaus;I. Korol;I. Korol’ko;A. Korzenev;V. Kostyukhin;E. K. Platia;S. Kovalenko;I. Krasilnikova;Y. Kudenko;Y. Kudenko;Y. Kudenko;E. Kurbatov;P. Kurbatov;V. Kurochka;E. Kuznetsova;H. Lacker;M. Lamont;G. Lanfranchi;O. Lantwin;A. Lauria;K. S. Lee;K. Y. Lee;J. Levy;V. Loschiavo;L. Lopes;E. L. Sola;V. Lyubovitskij;J. Maalmi;A. Magnan;V. Maleev;A. Malinin;Y. Manabe;A. Managadze;M. Manfredi;S. Marsh;A. Marshall;A. Mefodev;P. Mermod;A. Miano;S. Mikado;Y. Mikhaylov;D. Milstead;O. Mineev;V. Minutolo;A. Montanari;M. Montesi;K. Morishima;S. Movchan;Y. Muttoni;N. Naganawa;M. Nakamura;T. Nakano;S. Nasybulin;P. Ninin;A. Nishio;A. Novikov;B. Obinyakov;S. Ogawa;N. Okateva;N. Okateva;B. Opitz;J. Osborne;M. Ovchynnikov;M. Ovchynnikov;N. Owtscharenko;P. Owen;P. Pacholek;A. Paoloni;B. Park;S. Park;G. Passeggio;A. Pastore;M. Patel;D. Pereyma;A. Perillo-Marcone;G. Petkov;K. Petridis;A. Petrov;D. Podgrudkov;V. Poliakov;N. Polukhina;N. Polukhina;N. Polukhina;J. Prieto;M. Prokudin;A. Prota;A. Quercia;A. Rademakers;A. Rákai;F. Ratnikov;T. Rawlings;F. Redi;S. Ricciardi;M. Rinaldesi;V. Rodin;V. Rodin;P. Robbe;A. B. Cavalcante;T. Roganova;H. Rokujo;G. Rosa;T. Rovelli;O. Ruchayskiy;T. Ruf;V. Samoylenko;V. Samsonov;F. S. Galan;P. S. Diaz;A. S. Ull;A. Saputi;O. Sato;E. S. Savchenko;J. Schliwinski;W. Schmidt-Parzefall;N. Serra;S. Sgobba;O. Shadura;A. Shakin;M. Shaposhnikov;P. Shatalov;T. Shchedrina;T. Shchedrina;L. Shchutska;V. Shevchenko;H. Shibuya;L. Shihora;S. Shirobokov;A. Shustov;S. Silverstein;S. Simone;R. Simoniello;M. Skorokhvatov;M. Skorokhvatov;S. Smirnov;J. Sohn;A. Sokolenko;E. Solodko;N. Starkov;N. Starkov;L. Stoel;B. Storaci;M. E. Stramaglia;D. Sukhonos;Y. Suzuki;S. Takahashi;J. Tastet;P. Teterin;S. Naing;I. Timiryasov;V. Tioukov;D. Tommasini;M. Torii;N. Tosi;D. Treille;R. Tsenov;R. Tsenov;S. Ulin;Andrey Ustyuzhanin;Z. Uteshev;G. Vankova-Kirilova;F. Vannucci;P. Venkova;V. Venturi;S. Vilchinski;M. Villa;H. Vincke;H. Vincke;C. Visone;K. Vlasik;A. Volkov;A. Volkov;R. Voronkov;S. Waasen;R. Wanke;P. Wertelaers;J. Woo;M. Wurm;S. Xella;D. Yilmaz;A. Yilmazer;C. Yoon;P. Zarubin;I. Zarubina;Y. Zaytsev

Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA

NOvA 中的超新星中微子探测

• DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/014
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Acero M

Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.103.012007
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: M. A. Acero;P. Adamson;L. Aliaga;T. Alion;V. Allakhverdian;N. Anfimov;A. Antoshkin;E. Arrieta-Díaz;L. Asquith;A. Aurisano;A. Back;C. Backhouse;M. Baird;N. Balashov;P. Baldi;B. Bambah;S. Bashar;K. Bays;S. Bending;R. Bernstein;V. Bhatnagar;B. Bhuyan;J. Bian;J. Blair;A. Booth;P. Bouř;R. Bowles;C. Bromberg;N. Buchanan;A. Butkevich;S. Calvez;T. Carroll;E. Catano-Mur;S. Childress;B. Choudhary;T. Coan;M. Colo;L. Corwin;L. Cremonesi;G. S. Davies;P. Derwent;P. Ding;Z. Djurcic;M. Dolce;D. Doyle;D. Duenas Tonguino;P. Dung;E. Dukes;H. Duyang;S. Edayath;R. Ehrlich;M. Elkins;G. Feldman;P. Filip;W. Flanagan;J. Franc;M. Frank;H. Gallagher;R. Gandrajula;F. Gao;S. Germani;A. Giri;R. Gomes;M. Goodman;V. Grichine;M. Groh;R. Group;B. Guo;A. Habig;F. Hakl;A. Hall;J. Hartnell;R. Hatcher;K. Heller;J. Hewes;A. Himmel;A. Holin;J. Huang;J. Hylen;J. Jarosz;F. Jediný;C. Johnson;M. Judah;I. Kakorin;D. Kalra;D. Kaplan;R. Keloth;O. Klimov;L. Koerner;L. Kolupaeva;S. Kotelnikov;C. Kullenberg;M. Kubu;A. Kumar;C. Kuruppu;V. Kus;T. Lackey;K. Lang;L. Li;S. Lin;A. Lister;M. Lokajicek;S. Luchuk;S. Magill;W. A. Mann;M. Marshak;M. Martínez-Casales;V. Matveev;B. Mayes;D. Méndez;M. Messier;H. Meyer;T. Miao;W. Miller;S. Mishra;A. Mislivec;R. Mohanta;A. Moren;A. Morozova;L. Mualem;M. Muether;S. Mufson;K. Mulder;R. Murphy;J. Musser;D. Naples;N. Nayak;J. Nelson;R. Nichol;E. Niner;A. Norman;A. Norrick;T. Nosek;A. Olshevskiy;T. Olson;J. Paley;R. Patterson;G. Pawloski;O. Petrova;R. Petti;R. Plunkett;A. Rafique;V. Raj;B. Ramson;B. Rebel;P. Rojas;V. Ryabov;O. Samoylov;M. C. Sanchez-M. C.-Sanchez-2148418919;S. Sánchez Falero;P. Shanahan;A. Sheshukov;P. Singh;V. Singh;E. Smith;J. Smolík;P. Snopok;N. Solomey;E. Song;A. Sousa;K. Soustruznik;M. Strait;L. Suter;A. Sutton;S. Swain;C. Sweeney;B. Tapia Oregui;P. Tas;R. B. Thayyullathil;J. Thomas;E. Tiras;D. Torbunov;J. Tripathi;J. Trokan-Tenorio;Y. Torun;J. Urheim;P. Vahle;Z. Vallari;J. Vasel;P. Vokac;T. Vrba;M. Wallbank;Z. Wang;T. Warburton;M. Wetstein;D. Whittington;D. A. Wickremasinghe;S. Wojcicki;J. Wolcott;Y. Xiao;A. Yallappa Dombara;K. Yonehara;S. Yu;Y. Yu;S. Zadorozhnyy;J. Zálešák;Y. Zhang;R. Zwaska

Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment

• DOI: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00249-z
• 发表时间: 2021-02
• 期刊: The European Physical Journal Special Topics
• 作者: H. Abramowicz;U. Acosta;M. Altarelli;R. Assmann;Z. Bai;T. Behnke;Y. Benhammou;T. Blackburn

First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.041002
• 发表时间: 2023-07-28
• 期刊: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
• 影响因子: 8.6
• 作者: Aalbers, J.;Akerib, D. S.;Zuckerman, A.
• 通讯作者: Zuckerman, A.