Abbie Jane Chadwick 1st year PhD, LHCb Supervised by Prof. Tara Shears and Dr Stephen Farry LHCb • Single-arm forward detector which observes hadrons containing heavy quarks (c and b) Upgrade I • During LS2 subdetectors will be substantially upgraded • The Vertex Locator (VELO) will be tested within LSDC Weak Mixing Angle • Ratio of vector and axial-vector couplings of the Z boson to fermions • Experimentally determined using the angular distribution fit of Z boson final states Top Physics • Top quark production and decay are sensitive to new physics outside the standard model • Forward region allows for the study of alternative production mechanisms compared to central region detectors Antony Hibbert - 201069849 Supervisor: Dr Joe Price Liverpool HEP Christmas Meeting 2019 Implementation of Machine Learning to the Muon g-2 Straw Tracking Detectors Muon g-2 -Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment - Precision of 0.14ppm - BSM Physics? Straw Trackers - Three stations - Precise reconstruction of decay positrons Machine Learning Simulated -> Offline -> Online Applications Elsewhere - Mu3e uses similar tracking detectors Adam Abed Abud Particle Physics Annual Meeting 2019 Bio: Italian, M.Sc Univ. of Pavia, now PhD at Liverpool/CERN Working for the - Data acquisition (DAQ) - Research on high throughput storage technologies: save all the neutrino data! - Distributed databases to manage collected events - Future: track reconstruction of neutrino signals using ProtoDUNE data Deep Learning Applications for ν Event Reconstruction in LArTPC detectors & Joint Multi-Channel Analysis of SBND Data Glória De Sá Pereira, Supervisors: Prof. Costas Andreopoulos & Dr. Kostas Mavrokoridis • Near(est) detector in the 3 detector SBN program • SBND (110 m), MicroBooNE (470 m), ICARUS (600 m) • 112 ton LArTPC, 6M ν events in 3 years ≈ 2 m 5 m • Goals: • Constrain systematics for SBN oscillation searches • Cross section measurements • Other new physics MC simulations for DUNE Searching for CP-violation in neutrino oscillations Jaiden Parlone Supervised by: Prof Costas Andreopoulos & Prof Neil McCauley ∼ Working towards the exclusion of δCP = 0, ±π using long baseline neutrino experiments. ∼ Multi-Channel analysis using VALOR. ∼ Using T2K final statistics. ∼ Work towards T2K+NOvA joint fit. Development of highly-performant Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for future particle physics experiments Jan Hammerich (Heidelberg, Germany) I.Peric, P. Fischer et al., NIM A 582 (2007) 87 Supervisors: Eva Vilella, tbd Mean 5.667 500 Will work on HV-CMOS design entries and characterisation RMS 0.6591 400 First goal: Improving time 300 resolution to ≈ 1 ns 200 100 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Time Resolution [ns] Jan Hammerich HV-CMOS Pixel 19/12/19 1 / 1 Investigating Disappearing Tracks at ATLAS: • Charginos may produce • Will focus on tracking A (Short) Path to SUSY? very short tracks studies and st James Smith, 1 Year • Soft pion difficult to improvements Supervisors: Monica D'Onofrio, Helen Hayward, Nick Styles (DESY) reconstruct • Soft pion reconstruction • Neutralino undetectable • HL-LHC studies (DM candidate) • DESY split-site Lepton Flavour Violation with the first Mu3e experiment data Sean Hughes Supervisors: Nikolaos Rompotis, Joost Vossebeld ● Goal: Search for lepton flavour violating decay μ→eee eee (experiment sensitivity 1 in 10 16 ) ● Analysis of Mu3e first data – involvement in the first physics results ● Investigate timing responses of scintillating fibre and tile detector layers Time resolution of tile detector 19th December 2019 Sean Paul Hughes 1 ATOM INTERFEROMETRY & MAGIS-100 LEONIE HAWKINS - CHRISTMAS MEETING 2019 • Light-pulse atom interferometer At Liverpool: • Cloud modelling/imaging with interference pattern • Signal extraction considering noise .