Particle Physics Research Centre Equipment Grant Proposal

粒子物理研究中心致力于在最小的尺度上了解宇宙的秘密，推动人类知识的前沿。我们通过对撞机和低背景实验来实现这一点，并通过开发新仪器来构成这些实验的一部分。我们还与工业界合作，确保我们的技能和知识可以应用于现实世界，以获得更广泛的利益。我们的对撞机项目集中在瑞士CERN设施的大型强子对撞机及其高亮度升级。这里我们将重点讨论超越标准模型的物理学和精确希格斯物理学。我们的超越标准模型物理学计划是由寻找暗物质激发的新粒子和“异常”驱动的搜索——偏离标准模型的预期可能是新粒子或力的暗示。希格斯玻色子项目是由理解十年前我们帮助发现的粒子的需求推动的，每一次新的测量都是我们不断探索未知的科学发现之旅的一部分。我们的低背景实验计划侧重于通过包括ANITA、NOvA和MINERvA在内的现有项目了解中微子的性质，并致力于DUNE大型科学项目的开发，该项目预计将在本十年晚些时候开始收集数据。从长远来看，我们也在为未来的中微子工厂NuSTORM而努力。我们正在用中微子探索的一个关键问题是，为什么宇宙是由物质主导的。观测到的物质与反物质的不对称性确实反映了“我们为什么在这里？”这个问题。如果没有这种不对称，宇宙将会非常不同，简单地说，我们可能不会存在。我们的对撞机和低背景实验项目之间的协同作用来自于通过将半导体技术应用于未来的测试设施，作为下一代实验的可行性研究，以及数十年来对夸克中物质-反物质不对称性的研究，从而直接探测暗物质。用这笔资金购买的设备将使我们能够为未来的基础科学项目开发新型辐射探测器，包括电子离子对撞机和未来圆形对撞机的圆柱形顶点系统，以及用于暗物质搜索的新型低背景传感器。该设备将加快我们的技术转移计划测量设备的工作流程，减少将我们的能力和新发明从研究实验室转移到现实世界应用的时间。这也将使我们能够创建一个新的微电子设施，作为我们纳米制造设施的合作伙伴，这将创造一个多学科的环境，探索由QMUL的应用科学家为我们的基础科学项目开发的新型量子技术的应用。

The Particle Physics Research Centre works to understand the secrets of the universe at the smallest scales, pushing back the frontier of human knowledge. We do this through collider and low background experiments and through developing new instruments that form part of these experiments. We also work with industry to ensure that our skills and knowledge can be applied to real world applications for more widespread benefit.Our collider programme is centred on the Large Hadron Collider and its High Luminosity upgrade at the CERN facility in Switzerland. Here we focus on beyond the standard model physics and precision Higgs physics. Our beyond the standard model physics programme is driven by searches for dark matter inspired new particles and searches motivated by 'anomalies' - deviations from the standard model expectations that could be hints of new particles or forces. The Higgs programme is driven by the need to understand the particle we helped to discover a decade ago, where every new measurement is part of an ongoing journey of scientific discovery as we delve deeper into the unknown. Our low background experiment programme focuses on understanding the nature of neutrinos through current projects including ANITA, NOvA and MINERvA, and working on the development of the DUNE mega science project that is expected to start taking data later this decade. Longer term we are also working toward future neutrino factory, NuSTORM. One of the key questions we are probing with neutrinos is why the universe is matter dominated. The observed matter-antimatter asymmetry is truly a reflection of the question "Why are we here?". Without this asymmetry the universe would be very different, and put simply we might not otherwise have come to exist.Synergy between our collider and low background experiment programmes comes from working toward direct detection of dark matter through application of semiconductor technology for future test facilities as a feasibility study for next generation experiments, and decades of studying matter-antimatter asymmetry in quarks.The equipment purchased with this grant will enable us to work on new kinds of radiation detector for future fundamental science projects, including cylindrical vertex systems for the Electron Ion Collider and Future Circular Collider and new kinds of low background sensor for dark matter searches. The equipment will accelerate workflow for measurement of devices for our technology transfer programmes, reducing the time to transfer our capabilities and new inventions from the research lab to real world application. This will also enable us to create a new microelectronic facility as a partner to our nano-fabrication facility that will create a multidisciplinary environment to explore applications of new kinds of quantum technology being developed by applied scientists at QMUL for our fundamental science programmes.