Glasgow LHCb Group

Plan View of LHCb Detector

Group Members:

• Dr Richard Bates.
• Mr Alan Flavell.
• Ms Alison Gouldwell.
• Dr Val O'Shea.
• Mr Andrew Macgregor.
• Dr Chris Parkes.
• Dr Andrew Pickford.
• Dr Paul Soler.

E-science studentship on LHCb ( Further information).

Activities

• The group is currently involved in the construction of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors and the Vertex Locator (VELO) of LHCb in conjunction with other institutes in LHCb.
• Glasgow hardware responsibilities: construction of a production test facility to test Hybrid Photodiode performance, testing novel radiation hard silicon detectors for the LHCb VELO.
• Study of an alignment system for the LHCb RICH detectors.
• Software for the VELO detector.
• Monte Carlo production of LHCb physics events at the Scotgrid facility being built at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh.
• Applications of e-science and the Grid for the LHCb software.
• Study of CP violations using the LHCb data set.

Software

• LHCb software installation at Glasgow.

Objectives

• Objectives of Glasgow-LHCb group 2001-2002.

Reports

• RICH Technical Design Report (September 2000).
• LHCb RAL Report 2000.

Presentations

• P. Soler, III LHC Symposium (October 2001, Sardinia).

Students

• PhD studentships on LHCb poster.
• There exist great opportunities for students pursuing a PhD in the LHCb group.
• Possible topics of study include:
  • Characterization and testing of hybrid photodiodes for the RICH detectors;
  • Study of the alignment of the RICH detectors within LHCb;
  • Monitoring Cherenkov gas properties using spectroscopic and ultrasound techniques;
  • VELO software, including VELO alignment;
  • Software development using the C++ language, such as simulation of the detector with the GEANT4 package and object orientated reconstruction software;
  • E-science and Grid applications for LHCb;
  • Physics analysis of CP-violating decays of B-mesons.
  • Other possibilities can be further discussed with Dr Paul Soler and Dr Chris Parkes.

Funding

• We gratefully acknowledge funding by PPARC and support from the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory to carry out the LHCb project.