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• Long-term programme– Core is the academics plus long-term PPARC RAs
• Hardware (RA3 + 2 RA2s) Software (3 RA2s)
Particle Physics Experiment
• Experiments producing physics results (run until 2006)– ZEUS, CDF
• Preparations for the LHC (run from 2007)– ATLAS, LHCb
• e-science: the Grid– ScotGRID, CDF grid, ATLAS, LHCb
• Detector development– Radiation hard detectors for PP; spin-out applications
• Long term future– HARP, MARS, linear collider
• Finishing: ALEPH, DELPHI, NOMAD
PPE: new funding and support (Jan 2000/Dec 2001)
• University– Facilities (clean room, computer room, 10 new offices, more
lab space): value added to PPE research £492K– Operating budget (2 years) £90K
• PPARC– Rolling grant (4 year spend limit quoted) £2728K– 16 other awards
£1396K– plus share in value of CDF-JIF
• Other funders– 19 awards £1450K
• Total (9 P.I.’s) £6156K
• excluded: RAL line, quota students, University PGs, staff salaries, existing buildings, CERN sub
ZEUS: our main science engine
• FTEs (1.4 acad [4 people], 2 RA, 3 PG). Glasgow physics:– Prompt in photoproduction. 1st measurements at HERA. led by us– Prompt + jets in photoproduction intrinsic kT. All Glasgow– Angular and current-target correlations in DIS– Azimuthal asymmetries– Dijet cross sections using real and virtual (unique Q2 region)– High dijet masses in photoproduction structure
• Analyses in progress– Single top production– + jet in DIS– Virtual photon structure via dijet production– Scaling violations in p interactions– DIS event shapes s
– Jet substructure s
– Charged current events at high ET W-mass and QCD tests
• Papers on MLLA phenomenology (2 with Bristol) + review
ZEUS results
p + jetstudy pT balance:
Quark intrinsic kT in proton
QCD event shape study:s and 0 (non-perturb.)
ZEUS: upgrade (2002-6)
• Benefits: – More Lumi, heavy flavours, tracking acceptance, polarisation
• Glasgow aims:– prompt photon studies. Need higher statistics:
• to probe QCD effects.
• to study diffractive events– Prompt photons with charm - using Microvertex detector– Jets and event shape studies:
• higher Q2 to compare to MLLA,
• charm azimuthal asymmetries in boson-gluon fusion using charm tag
• jet cross sections to higher Q2 and ET– More sensitivity in top search (FCNC limits, already much
better than LEP, TeVatron)
• Work on background reduction
CDF: our new science engine
• FTEs (1.2 acad [2 people], 1.6 RA, 5 PG)– [PG funding from Fermilab and Argonne]
• Hardware and analysis tools:– Big involvement in SVX development, testing, calibration– We lead data-bases (calibrations etc), CDF Grid activity – Accelerator development (antiproton collection, backgrounds
{PG student}, technicians)– CDF-JIF analysis server in Glasgow
• Physics has started:– search for Bs J/– paper on double diffraction dissociation
• Main thrust: physics of b-quarks.
CDF: b-physics
• Production mechanisms poorly understood– need to establish QCD mechanisms– pre-requisite for Higgs search– needed for accurate CKM measurements (sin 2 +..)
• Build on J/ study and b-jet tagging (ex-ALEPH):– Bs lifetime using Bs J/– Bd mixing– b lifetime– Bs lifetime using semileptonic decays
• Bid for new RA– use b-tagging to study top physics
CDF Hardware and analysis
Vertex detector
Run 1:B+ J/K+
Run 2: J/ decay length
ATLAS: our main future
• FTEs: 2.3 academics [6 people], 4 RA, 1 PG– Smith is chairman of ATLAS collaboration board
• Forward Semiconductor Tracker (SCT)– Commission test system for modules– Systems test lab at CERN– Prototype thermal shield– Disk mock up. Services– Module irradiations and subsequent tests– ‘3D’ technology - continues as R&D project
• Preparations for physics– WH signal/background studies– Interface to EU data-grid management
Kinematic cuts to suppress WZ & continuum backgroundwith high efficiency for WH.
ATLAS plans
• Forward SCT modules– 300 modules to be bonded, tested QA’d in Glasgow– Services layout work– Irradiation and tests– System test facility at CERN– Assembly, testing, commissioning, integration (part of UK
team)
• Physics preparations– Interface to grid– Data challenges. Use of ScotGRID facility
LHCb: our new future
• FTEs building up:– 2 new academics (Soler, Parkes), 1 RA, 1 PG rising to 2
• LHCb RICH project (Ring Imaging CHerenkov)– Photon detector technology pixel HPD as baseline– ASIC design for ALICE/LHCb (with CERN)– RICH2 Mechanical design and assembly project (CCLRC
based)– Development lab in Glasgow
• LHCb VELO project (VErtex LOcator)– n-in-n technology EU funded development– Irradiated detector tests to very high fluences
LHCb - RICH and VELO
Single photoelectronspectra visible
R and layers
Flux > 3.1014 n cm-2
LHCb: plans
• RICH– Full scale test facility in Glasgow (250 HPDs = 250k pixels)– Laser alignment– Gas monitoring– Simulation– Mechanics
• VELO (following Parkes’s transfer from Liverpool)– Software coordination, algorithms– Sensor R&D– Test beam analysis, irradiations
• ScotGRID– Monte Carlo Facility and studies (experience on MAPs)
• Bid for RA: Parkes’s transfer brings responsibilities
Developments for future detectors and facilities
• Detector development + involvement in future linear collider (ECFA study, MAPS) & HARP