Experiments
The Particle Physics group is involved in a number of key experiments around the world.
See more details of our Strategy, or click on the links below for details of specific experiments.
| Project |
Description | Contact |
Liverpool Contributions |
ATLAS Experiment |
General purpose detector for hadron-hadron collision physics at LHC / CERN (Switzerland) | Prof Monica D'Onofrio |
Physics: Search for New Physics, Higgs, Extra Dimensions, Supersymmetry, Standard Model. Hardware: Forward Silicon Central Tracker |
LHCb Experiment |
B-physics specialized detector at LHC / CERN (Switzerland) | Prof Tara Shears |
Physics: Quark Flavour Physics, Rare B decays Hardware: Vertex Detector (VELO) |
Neutrino Physics
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Various current and future experiments for neutrino property determination | Dr Neil McCauley | |
| T2K: a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan |
Physics: Neutrino oscillation physics |
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| Super Kamiokande: a large underground neutrino detector in Japan |
Light injection calibration |
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| ARIADNE: a LAr time projection chamber | Develop a large scale liquid argon detector | ||
| SNO+: a deep underground neutrino detector in Sudbury (Canada) | Neutrinoless double beta decay | ||
| DUNE: a future long baseline neutrino oscillation project in the USA | Neutrino oscillation physics LAr time projector prototyping |
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| HyperK: a future long baseline neutrino oscillation project in Japan | Neutrino oscillation physics | ||
LZ |
Dark matter search experiment in South Dacota (USA) | Dr Sergey Burdin | Weakly interacting massive particle search |
Mu3e |
Rare muon decay experiment at PSI (Switzerland) | Prof Joost Vossebeld | Physics: Muon physics Hardware: Silicon tracker module construction and assembly |
g-2 |
Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon at Fermilab (USA) | Physics: Muon physics Hardware: Design and building tracking detector straw chambers |
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MuonE |
Leading hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon |
Physics: Muon physics Hardware: Muon Spectrometer |
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Mu2e |
Charged Lepton Flavour Violation searches at Fermilab (USA) | Dr Joseph Price |
Physics: Muon physics Hardware: Germanium detector (Stopping target monitor)
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Atom Interferometry |
Building a pair of ultacold atom interferometers for fundamental physics research | Dr Jon Coleman |
Physics: Dark energy and quantum physics with cold atoms Hardware: Prototype under construction in Liverpool |
CTA |
Development of the next generation of high energy gamma ray observatory | Prof Tim Greenshaw |
Physics: High energy cosmic rays detection with air showers Hardware: Camera sensor, slow control electronics and environmental housing. |
RD50 |
Research and development for silicon detectors for future experiments (CERN, Switzerland) | Prof Gianluigi Casse | Design, production and testing of novel Silicon detectors |
PRaVDA |
Proton computed tomography and dosimetry measurements in iThemba Labs | Prof Gianluigi Casse | Silicon Tracker |
Reactor Monitoring |
Measuring the flux of neutrinos from a reactor core (Wylfa Nuclear Power Station, North Wales) | Dr Jon Coleman | Full project |
GAMBE |
Demonstrating Li6 covered silicon sensors with gamma suppression | Prof Gianluigi Casse | Full project at Liverpool |
FASER |
ForwArd Search ExperRiment for light and extremely weakly interacting particles | Prof. Monica D'Onofrio | Physics analysis |