Particle Physics Capital Equipment Request

实验粒子物理学在物质的最小粒子，夸克和轻子，以及它们之间作用的力的水平上解决了一些关于宇宙结构和行为的基本问题。我们正在大型强子对撞机（LHC）上探索粒子的基本特性，并通过开发和使用新的探测系统探索暗物质和中微子的本质。我们正在为欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机的ATLAS项目的持续运行做出贡献。我们已经建造并委托了电子系统和驱动它们的软件。从数据采集之初，我们就在寻找奇异粒子、2012年发现希格斯玻色子以及研究顶夸克的性质方面发挥了主导作用。我们正准备从2015年开始进行新的数据采集，并对这些和相关主题进行进一步分析。尽管从暗物质的引力相互作用中推断出暗物质存在的大量间接证据，但它还没有在地面实验室中被直接探测到。直接探测实验试图观察暗物质在目标探测核上的散射。我们通过在DEAP/CLEAN上进行世界领先的暗物质研究来探索这些问题，DEAP/CLEAN是一种具有扩展到多吨质量的独特潜力的液态氩探测器，DMTPC探测器开发计划用于测量暗物质风，以及lux - zeplin实验。该小组在高压tpc方面的专业知识现在被用于进行与Hyper-K实验的中微子研究相关的测量。我们在加速器科学方面的专业知识将使我们能够为高亮度lhc和ILC的机器探测器接口进行研究。我们也将扩大现象学小组与实验团体之间的互动。

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.