Experimental Particle Physics

Do you want to discover…

• What is the origin of mass ?• Discover the Higgs boson with ATLAS

• Why is there more matter than anti-matter in the universe ?

• Measure CP violation with LHCb• Are there new fundamental particles ?

• Find supersymmetry with CDF

• What is the structure of the proton ?• Scatter electrons from quarks at ZEUS

Would you like to...• Measure fundamental properties of physics• Develop new imaging technologies• Work in large international groups

Visiting / staying at overseas facillities.

PPE Group: 8 Lecturers,

21 Researchers, 7 Support staff,

17 PhD Students.

PhD TrainingFull programme of technical PhD training lectures from

Feynman diagrams to C++

NICE PICTURE

Experimental Particle Physics

Experiments• Work at the world’s leading

Particle Physics accelerators– CERN, Geneva; Fermilab, Chicago; DESY, Hamburg

Video of LHC Construction

ATLAS has 2000 physicists worldwide

working on an experiment the size of a five storey building

LHCb looks for a tiny difference

between the behaviour of matter

and antimatter

ZEUSPerform Deep

Inelastic Scattering atthe only e-p

collider in the world.

Large data sample ready

for you to analyse.

CDF uses the most powerful particle accelerator currently

operating in the world.

Large

HadronCollider

The largest scientific

project ever built startsApril 2007.Have your analysis

ready to study the first data.

Experimental Particle Physics

E-Science• GRID

– The web of processing power

• Simulation & Reconstruction– LHC experiments will produce

xxTB of data/ year

– How do we store this?

– How do we analyse this?

200 CPU Farm located in the Kelvin Building. Additional CPU and storage are located in Edinburgh and Durham.Connected to a globally distributed network of computers

Optorsim is a Grid simulator designed to test dynamicreplication strategies

EGEEPan-European

Project to develop GRID middleware with

LHC as first application

Experimental Particle Physics

Detector Development• Specialise in developing

semiconductor detectors – Design, Fabrication, Measurement

• Used for the highest precision inner layers of particle detectors– Spatial Resolution of 4m !

– Single photon sensitive detectors

• Not just for particle physics

Artificial Eyes? Replace Medical X-Ray film?

3D Detectors new technology with holes through silicon