Professor Neil McCauley Ba MSci D.Phil
Professor in Physics Physics
- +44 (0)151 794 3354
- Work email N.McCauley@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
Neutrino Physics
I am interested in all aspects of neutrino physics. From my early research on solving the solar neutrino problem in SNO I have been interested in solving the big questions in neutrino physics. The search for CP violation in the neutrino sector is one of the major goals in the sector. Building on our research in T2k which discovered electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam we will extend the search in a next generation experiment so that we can potentially discover CP violation. I am leading Liverpool into the Hyper Kamiokande program which is a direct upgrade of T2K. Within Hyper-K I lead the calibration working group leading the development of calibration infrastructure and software. In Liverpool we lead the development of the Hyper-K light injection system with particular responsibility for the light sources and fibre optics. In addition to these activities in Japan, the Watchman experiment due to be constructed at the Boulby mine near Whitby develops the same neutrino detection techniques to the monitoring of nuclear reactors for non proliferation goals.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
Hyper Kamiokande Construction
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2022 - March 2026
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2022
UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
October 2022 - September 2025
Hyper Kamiokande Construction
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2021 - March 2023
Hyper Kamiokande Preconstruction
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2020 - March 2022
AIT / WATCHMAN: Year One
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
November 2018 - September 2024
Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2019
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2019 - September 2025
Particle Physics Consolidated award
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2015 - September 2019
Hyper Kamiokande Preconstruction
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2017 - September 2021
Particle Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2006 - September 2011
University of Liverpool, Department of Physics Particle Physics Rolling Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2010 - September 2012
The SNO+ Experiment
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
August 2013 - November 2015
LBNE and the Fermilab Liquid Argon Detector Programme
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2014 - September 2017
The University of Liverpool, Department of Physics Rolling Grant.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2009 - March 2011
Preparatory phase for Hyper-Kamoikande long baseline neutrino experiment
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2014 - September 2017
Particle Physics Consolidated Grant
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2012 - September 2016
Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations (LAGUNA-LBNO).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
September 2011 - August 2014