PPD

PARTICLE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT (PPD)

We design, build and operate detectors worldwide, analyse data and support the UK particle physics community.

We design, build and operate detectors worldwide, analyse data and support the UK particle physics community.

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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.
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.
COMPUTING: WLCG
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid WLCG project is building and maintaining a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high-energy physics community that will use the LHC, for which PPd contributed to the support of the UK Tier 1 centre.
LHC COLLABORATION
Experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) use detectors to analyse at the TeV scale the myriad of particles produced by collisions in the accelerator. These experiments are run by collaborations of scientists from institutes all over the world
PROJECT OFFICE and PROGRAMME SUPPORT
The PPD Project Office provides management and delivery expertise to the wider UK particle physics community. The UK Liaison Office Team provides support to students and researchers for issues concerning relocation and settling in to work at CERN.
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