£3.2m funding boost for UofG particle physics research

Published: 5 April 2022

Particle physicists from the University of Glasgow are sharing in £60m of new funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Particle physicists from the University of Glasgow are sharing in £60m of new funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

They will receive £3.2m to help support their research at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva and the T2K and Hyper-K detectors in Japan.

Over the next three years, the University of Glasgow-led research group will focus their efforts in:

  • the Higgs and top sectors for ATLAS
  • the charm and beauty sector for LHCb
  • the neutrino sector at T2K and Hyper-K, including searches for processes beyond the Standard Model

The group is simultaneously entering a major construction phase, building upon the synergies established between their ATLAS and LHCb detector developments. Glasgow researchers are also working on an active neutrino oscillation experiment, T2K, and will work towards a third-generation experiment, Hyper-K, that is aiming to discover CP violation in neutrinos.

The grant application details the range of experiemnts the group has been working on. 

First published: 5 April 2022

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