Experiments

​​​​​​​The department, in collaboration with colleagues from UK Universities is involved in many high energy physics (HEP) projects and running experiments located at different research institutes around the world.​​

LHC Experiments

​The construction, installation and exploration of experiments to study physics at the TeV scale at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (located in Geneva, ​Switzerland).

 
  • ATLAS
    ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The ATLAS detector is designed to search for new physics in the collisions of protons at extraordinarily high energies.
  • CMS
    CMS is one of the four particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
  • LHCb
    LHCb is one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN with the purpose to study CP violation and rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons

Neutrino Experiments

​The search for new phenomena in precision experiments

 
  • DUNE
    DUNE is a liquid argon neutrino oscillation experiments located in the Stanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). It has a wide physics program, but one of the mean aims is to investigate, if neutrinos and antineutrinos behave the same.
  • Hyper-Kamiokande
    Hyper-Kamiokande is a future gigantic neutrinos detector to confront elementary particle unification theories and the mysteries of the Universe's evolution
  • Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE)
    MICE will establish the feasibility of muon accelerators to unlock nature's secrets hidden in the properties of the neutrino.
  • T2K
    T2K is a second generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. T2K has a wide physics program, but one of the main goals is to observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam and to measure the value of the 3rd mixing angle

Other Experiments

​As w​ell as the LHC and Neutrino experiments mentioned above, PPD is also involved in a number of other experiments and activities

 
  • Accelerators
    Currently, around 17000 accelerators exist in the world and these are used for a variety of applications including medicine, semi-conductor manufacture and understanding the structure of materials.
  • Boulby Underground Laboratory
    Boulby Underground Laboratory is a multi-disciplinary, deep-underground science facility operating 1.1km below ground in a working potash, polyhalite and rock-salt mine in the North East of England.
  • Dark Matter
    Direct Dark Matter Searches with Noble Liquid Detectors
  • Grid and Computing
    Computing Activities in the Particle Physics Department
  • nEDM R&D
    Experiments to measure the Electric Dipole Moment of the neutron
  • New Detector Initiatives
    The Particle Physics Department New Detector Initiatives group brings together specialists in a cross-disciplinary group to investigate the Knowledge Exchange and Intellectual Property opportunities for our world-leading technology.

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