£3.2m funding boost for University of Glasgow particle physics research

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. Professor Doyle said: -We are delighted to be receiving this new funding from STFC, which will help us take forward our research in some of fascinating and fundamental areas of physics with our partners around the world. -Researchers from the University of Glasgow have played key roles in the development of detectors like ATLAS for decades. We continue to invest in and promote a world-class detector development activity to enable longer-term initiatives, and our computing Grid strength is aimed at maximising our impact in LHC physics as well as promoting new areas.