The Particle Physics Group

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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 dont just sit
  on it tell me about it.

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Coming up the Experimental Rolling Grant
Application

• Our account to PPARC of what weve 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
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
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
CALICE fraction slightly above PPARC commitment
superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over
commitment
ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment
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Jo
No existing FP420 PPARC commitment
ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment
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Steve
Small CALICE fraction (5-10) needed PPARC
commitment and thermal modelling
Greatly exceeds PPARC SuperNEMO commitment
ATLAS fraction slightly under PPARC commitment
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Scott
Small CALICE fraction PPARC commitment but
taken up by Marc
Less than short-term PPARC SuperNEMO commitment
but more long-term. No PPARC commitment to FP420
ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment
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Marc
No CALICE PPARC commitment but this compensates
for Scott
Less than short-term PPARC SuperNEMO commitment
but more long-term. No PPARC commitment to FP420
ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment
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Mike Perry
There is a 10 CALICE PPARC commitment
No PPARC commitment to FP420 or SuperNEMO
ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment
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The projects
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!