Responsive PDRA applications for Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London

实验粒子物理学在物质的最小粒子，夸克和轻子，以及作用于它们之间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（Higgs boson）以及研究迄今为止发现的最重粒子——顶夸克（top quark）的性质方面发挥了主导作用。鉴于目前可用和正在收集的非常大的数据集，我们计划扩大对希格斯玻色子的测量，并开始对外来粒子的新搜索。虽然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。我们通过世界领先的暗物质研究来探索这些问题，并开发了大型暗物质探测器DarkSide-20k，该探测器使用液态氩。通过使用与暗物质研究类似的探测技术，我们还通过研究难以捉摸的中微子粒子，参与了围绕宇宙中物质反物质不对称的谜题。我们使用日本的T2K长基线中微子实验测量了轻子扇区的CP违和。

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 the properties of the heaviest particle discovered so far:the top quark. Given the very large dataset currently available and being collected, we plan on expanding our measurements of the Higgs bosonand initiate new searches for exotic particles.Although there is ample indirect evidence for the existence of darkmatter as 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 with the development of a large dark matter detector DarkSide-20k whichuses liquid argon. Using detection techniques similar to those of our dark matter research, we are also involved in the the puzzle surrounding the matter anti-matter asymmetry in the Universe bystudying the elusive neutrino particle. We measure CP violation in the lepton sectorusing the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment in Japan.