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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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  • ACCELERATORS and FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES
    Accelerators areused for a variety of applications including medicine, semi-conductor manufacture and understanding the structure of materials. PPD will be a huge collaborator is different future experiments, such as LhARA, EIC and Hyper-Kamiokande.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • CMS
    CMS is one of the four particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Neutrinos
    The elusive neutrinos are difficult to measure. MICE tried to unlock nature's secrets hidden in the properties of neutrino, while the T2K and DUNE experiments are investigating ways to observe them.
  • NON-ACCELERATOR PHYSICS
    ​The DOM group encompasses activities related to dark matter, neutrino oscillation and neutron electric dipole moment experiments. We share technical resources and personnel to optimally deliver the program.
  • 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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