Capital Equipment for Warwick Particle Physics Programme 2015-2019

拟议的研究范围包括三个不同的领域：ATLAS实验中的希格斯和新现象搜索; T2 K，LBNE，HyperK和SuperNEMO的中微子物理学;通用探测器研发。它还包括外联和知识交流方案。o欧洲核子研究中心的ATLAS实验，一个在大型强子对撞机上运行的大型通用探测器，旨在寻找和研究希格斯玻色子以及新的奇异形式的物质。我们的初步工作将是支持实验，促进其快速识别有趣事件的能力，以便记录和进一步分析。我们还将为2012年发现的希格斯玻色子的详细研究做出贡献。我们将通过帮助优化衰变为τ轻子（电子的重亲戚）对的事件的相互作用来做到这一点。我们还将寻找其他更重的奇异新玻色子。o中微子性质的阐明。这些都是非常轻的中性粒子，例如，由太阳发射，并在放射性β衰变中。他们最近被发现振荡，即。从一种类型转变为另一种类型，同时它们也在传播。我们已经建立了T2 K实验的一部分，该实验目前正在日本运行。最近对其数据的分析发现了μ介子到电子型中微子的新型振荡。我们的目标是继续进行这项实验，更好地测量这种新发现的效应，并用反中微子寻找它。我们还计划为SuperNEMO实验做出贡献，该实验旨在确定中微子的性质，即所谓的狄拉克粒子或马约拉纳粒子。前者有不同的反粒子，而后者是它自己的反粒子。这个问题可以通过寻找没有中微子伴随的双β衰变来解决。o我们提议继续研究和开发位置和能量敏感探测器，用于中微子实验，并可能在工业上附带应用。o我们会继续发展外展计划，包括为本地学校举办活动，以及在科普刊物上发表文章。o在大学知识交流的策略和精神的支持下，我们会继续寻求一切可行的途径，进行知识交流。

The scope of the proposed research lies in three distinct areas: Higgs and new phenomena searches at the ATLAS Experiment; the physics of neutrinos with T2K, LBNE, HyperK and SuperNEMO; generic detector R&D. It also includes Outreach and Knowledge Exchange programmes. In more detail:o The ATLAS experiment at CERN, a large, general purpose detector operating at the LHC was designed to search for and study the Higgs boson, as well as new exotic forms of matter. Our initial work will be to support the experiment by contributing to its ability to identify interesting events rapidly for recording and further analysis. We will also contribute to the detailed study of the Higgs boson which was discovered in 2012. We will do this by helping to optimise the coeection of events in which it decays to pairs of tau leptons, heavy relatives of the electron. We will also look for other, heavier exotic new bosons.o The elucidation of the properties of neutrinos. These are very light, neutral particles which are emitted, for example, by the sun, and in radioactive beta decay. They have recently been found to oscillate, ie. transmute from one type to another, while they propagate. We have built part of the T2K experiment which is now operating in Japan. Analyses of its data recently found new types of oscillations of muon to electron type neutrinos. We aim to continue running this experiment, to better measure this newly-discovered effect, and also to search for it with anti-neutrinos. We further plan to contribute to the SuperNEMO experiment, which aims to determine the nature of the neutrino as so called Dirac or Majorana particle. The former has distinct anti-particles, while the latter is its own antiparticle. This question may be resolved by searching for double beta decay accompanied by no neutrinos. We will contribute to the analysis of data obtained by a "demonstrator module" attempting to observe such decays.o We propose to continue our research and development of position- and energy-sensitive detectors for applications in neutrino experiments and with potential spin-off applications in industry. In particular, we plan to develop a prototype high pressure hydrogen TPC for neutrino physics.o We will continue to develop our outreach programme which includes activities for local schoolsand articles in popular science publications.o Supported by a strong University strategy and ethos in knowledge exchange, we will continue to pursue all avenues for possible knowledge exchange.