The Particle Physics Group

2005 and beyond

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Welcome• Thorsten• Rob• Roger• Un-ki• Dave

• Paul (M)

• Adriana

• Yibiao

• Joseph

• Remi

• Krisztian

• Panis

• Colin

• Jong

• Owen

• Paul(B)

• Chris• Kim• Phil• James• Simon• Tim• Yu Wei• Jorge

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Running Experiments

• ATLAS: SCT modules complete

• BaBar: going strong

• DØ: going strong

• H1: involvement comes to an end

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New Experiments

• CALICE

• SuperNEMO

• FP420

• All had proposals approved by PPARC

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Theory

• Vibrant

• Leading group for QCD phenomenology. Lots going on.

• New developments in PP/cosmology

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Other new grants

• EuroTev

• Grid Security

• EuDET

• EGEE-II

PP brings in far more income than any other research group in the School, apart from Astronomy

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More students

• Number of PPARC standard studentships increasing from 3 to 4/year

• Period of these also increasing from 3 years to 4 years

Unwanted Christmas present? Need to think about opportunities and implications

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Manchester Cockcroft

• 2 new lecturers

• New RA

• 2 new RAs to be appointed

• New student

3 7??

Manchester presence beginning to be felt

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Manchester Tier 2

• LARGE farm in Renold house

Go and see it and be impressed

Opening ceremony coming up

• Big asset for group

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Refurbishment

• Move to 7th and 2nd floor complete

We survived

• Move to 5th and 6th floor on the way

We will flourish

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Invitation: Ideas

We have many activities

Christmas meeting, Masterclass, Website, Library, Seminars, Offices, furniture, phones, mail (electronic), mail(physical), computing, Christmas party, teaching, outreach…

If you have ideas about new things we could do, or how we could do things better – don’t just sit on it: tell me about it.

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Coming up: the Experimental Rolling Grant

ApplicationOur account to PPARC of what we’ve

done with their money in the past 2 years, and request for the next 3-5 years.

Vital that we keep our existing posts – and hopefully get some more

Need to get our ideas straight first…

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Ray

2005-62006-7

2007-82008-9

2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

FP420

CALICE

ATLAS

CALICE fraction slightly below PPARC commitment – but compensated by Julian

superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over commitment

ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

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Julian

2005-62006-7

2007-82008-9

2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

FP420

CALICE

ATLAS

CALICE fraction slightly above PPARC commitment – but compensated by Ray

superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over commitment

ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

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Andrew Elvin

2005-62006-7

2007-82008-9

2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

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CALICE

ATLAS

CALICE fraction slightly above PPARC commitment

superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over commitment

ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

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Jo

2005-62006-7

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2009-102010-11

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No existing FP420 PPARC commitment

ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

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Steve

2005-62006-7

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2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

FP420

CALICE

ATLAS

Greatly exceeds PPARC SuperNEMO commitment ATLAS fraction

slightly under PPARC commitment

Small CALICE fraction (5-10%) needed – PPARC commitment and thermal modelling

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Scott

2005-62006-7

2007-82008-9

2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

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CALICE

ATLAS

Less than short-term PPARC SuperNEMO commitment but more long-term.

No PPARC commitment to FP420

ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

Small CALICE fraction PPARC commitment but taken up by Marc

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Marc

2005-62006-7

2007-82008-9

2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

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CALICE

ATLAS

Less than short-term PPARC SuperNEMO commitment but more long-term.

No PPARC commitment to FP420

ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

No CALICE PPARC commitment but this compensates for Scott

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Mike Perry

2005-62006-7

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2009-102010-11

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superNEMO

sSCT

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CALICE

ATLAS

No PPARC commitment to FP420 or SuperNEMO ATLAS fraction

grossly under PPARC commitment

There is a 10% CALICE PPARC commitment

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The projects

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ATLAS

CALICE

FP420

sSCT

superNEMO

Other

Last 2 years are (presumably) inexact predictions

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Assertions and questions

• We have a major commitment to ATLAS. Our small number of ATLAS support FTEs is not incompatible with this

• Adding some ‘blue-skies’ detector-driven projects is to be encouraged

• How do we get into super-SCT? Our skill set does not match early-stage research into rad hard silicon

• Should we commit to FP420 electronics (Scott) AND mechanicals (Ray and Co.)

• How do we manage the ATLAS ring fence?

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Discussion

To be sorted out over the next few weeks –

meanwhile: Happy New Year!