The Particle Physics Group 2005 and beyond

Slide2/23 Welcome Thorsten Rob Roger Un-ki Dave Paul (M) Adriana Yibiao Joseph Remi Krisztian Panis Colin Jong Owen Paul(B) Chris Kim Phil James Simon Tim Yu Wei Jorge

Slide3/23 Running Experiments ATLAS: SCT modules complete BaBar: going strong DØ: going strong H1: involvement comes to an end

Slide4/23 New Experiments CALICE SuperNEMO FP420 All had proposals approved by PPARC

Slide5/23 Theory Vibrant Leading group for QCD phenomenology. Lots going on. New developments in PP/cosmology

Slide6/23 Other new grants EuroTev Grid Security EuDET EGEE-II PP brings in far more income than any other research group in the School, apart from Astronomy

Slide7/23 More students Number of PPARC standard studentships increasing from 3 to 4/year Period of these also increasing from 3 years to 4 years Unwanted Christmas present? Need to think about opportunities and implications

Slide8/23 Manchester Cockcroft 2 new lecturers New RA 2 new RAs to be appointed New student 3  7  ?? Manchester presence beginning to be felt

Slide9/23 Manchester Tier 2 LARGE farm in Renold house Go and see it and be impressed Opening ceremony coming up Big asset for group

Slide10/23 Refurbishment Move to 7 th and 2 nd floor complete We survived Move to 5 th and 6 th floor on the way We will flourish

Slide11/23 Invitation: Ideas We have many activities Christmas meeting, Masterclass, Website, Library, Seminars, Offices, furniture, phones, mail (electronic), mail(physical), computing, Christmas party, teaching, outreach… If you have ideas about new things we could do, or how we could do things better – don’t just sit on it: tell me about it.

Slide12/23 Coming up: the Experimental Rolling Grant Application Our account to PPARC of what we’ve done with their money in the past 2 years, and request for the next 3-5 years. Vital that we keep our existing posts – and hopefully get some more Need to get our ideas straight first…

Slide13/23 Ray CALICE fraction slightly below PPARC commitment – but compensated by Julian superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over commitment ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

Slide14/23 Julian CALICE fraction slightly above PPARC commitment – but compensated by Ray superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over commitment ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

Slide15/23 Andrew Elvin CALICE fraction slightly above PPARC commitment superNEMO and FP420 fractions grossly over commitment ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

Slide16/23 Jo No existing FP420 PPARC commitment ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment

Slide17/23 Steve Greatly exceeds PPARC SuperNEMO commitment ATLAS fraction slightly under PPARC commitment Small CALICE fraction (5-10%) needed – PPARC commitment and thermal modelling

Slide18/23 Scott Less than short- term PPARC SuperNEMO commitment but more long-term. No PPARC commitment to FP420 ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment Small CALICE fraction PPARC commitment but taken up by Marc

Slide19/23 Marc Less than short- term PPARC SuperNEMO commitment but more long-term. No PPARC commitment to FP420 ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment No CALICE PPARC commitment but this compensates for Scott

Slide20/23 Mike Perry No PPARC commitment to FP420 or SuperNEMO ATLAS fraction grossly under PPARC commitment There is a 10% CALICE PPARC commitment

Slide21/23 The projects Last 2 years are (presumably) inexact predictions

Slide22/23 Assertions and questions We have a major commitment to ATLAS. Our small number of ATLAS support FTEs is not incompatible with this Adding some ‘blue-skies’ detector-driven projects is to be encouraged How do we get into super-SCT? Our skill set does not match early-stage research into rad hard silicon Should we commit to FP420 electronics (Scott) AND mechanicals (Ray and Co.) How do we manage the ATLAS ring fence?

Slide23/23 Discussion To be sorted out over the next few weeks – meanwhile: Happy New Year!