News from our group
2023
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2023/10/01: Welcoming a new MPHYS student in our group
A warm welcome to our two new MPHYS student,
Liam Jones, working on an exciting project on
Quantum Machine Learning.
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2023/11/03: Contribution to the Institute for Nuclear Theory workshop INT-23-86W
Our postdoc Marco Roda delivers an
invited talk on
`Current Capabilities and Future Plans for Lepton Scattering Uncertainties in GENIE'
in an
Institute for Nuclear Theory topical workshop
(INT-23-86W: Theoretical Physics Uncertainties to Empower Neutrino Experiments),
held between October 30th - November 3rd.
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2023/11/01: Welcoming a new post-doctoral research assistant in our group
Today was the first day at work for our new postdoc,
Komninos-John Plows.
John, who has just finished his PhD in Oxford working with Xianguo Lu
in a Heavy Neutral Lepton search in MINERvA, will join our SBN physics exploitation activities.
He will take a leading role in the development and application of the
VALOR analysis to SBN data,
and will have the chief responsibility to characterise and constrain modelling uncertainties
using SBND data, produce systematically robust SBND-driven spectrum extrapolations to the ICARUS baseline,
and perform sensitive multi-channel sterile neutrino oscillation searches with VALOR.
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2023/10/01: Welcoming two new PhD students in our group
A very warm welcome to our two new PhD students
Marina Esther Maneyro Questa
and Samuel Godwood!
Marina and Sam will be carrying out research in Quantum Information Science,
in a collaborative project between our group and
Dr. Gabriel Perdue and Dr. Doğa Murat Kürkçüoğlu of the Fermilab Quantum Institute.
The team will explore the use of quantum processors for neutrino interaction simulations.
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2023/09/01: New funding for staff exchanges from the EU commission
Our group was awarded £50k by the EU commission to support staff exchanges
through our participation in the PROBES
(Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave
physics experiments. A cooperative Europe - United States - Asia effort) consortium.
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2023/08/21: Contribution to the 24th Intl' Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NuFact 2023)
Costas delivers an
invited talk on
`Recent developments in GENIE'
in the
NuFact 2023 workshop,
held between 21-26 August in Seoul (South Korea).
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2023/08/01: Joining the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) exploitation effort
Our group has now been granted Observer Status in the
JUNO experiment in southern China.
This is a multi-purpose experiment, whose primary aim is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering
from the measurements of reactor anti-neutrinos from the Yangjiang and Taishan nuclear power plants.
Liverpool is only the second U.K. institute to join this exciting project, after the University of Warwick.
Liverpool and Warwick are bringing world-leading expertise in simulation and analysis of
GeV-scale neutrino interactions, and will be focussing in the analysis of atmospheric neutrino data in JUNO.
Our aim is to help JUNO achieve the first definitive neutrino mass-ordering determination,
by exploiting the complementary neutrino mixing information in the atmospheric neutrino data.
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2023/07/19: Julia wins the departmental best thesis award
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2022/06/01: Beth starts her Fermilab LTA
Our PhD student Beth Slater
will spend the next few months at Fermilab,
controbuting to work for transitioning SBND to physics data-taking. In particular,
she is focussing on SBND trigger integration work, as well as on developing the SBND-PRISM idea
and its possible implementation in the early phase of the analysis.
Beth's long term attachment (LTA) to Fermilab is fully funded by STFC.
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2023/05/25: Tom passes his PhD viva
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2023/05/20: Beth wins the Leo Carroll award
Congratulations to our PhD student Beth Slater
for receiving the Liverpool HEP Leo Carroll award for outstanding performace
during her first year of post-graduate studies.
Beth explores the PRISM capabilities of the SBND detector
using the VALOR analysis.
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2023/04/28: Contribution to Beyond WIMPs workshop
Costas delivers an invited talk on
`Dark Sector Searches with Accelerator Neutrino Experiments'
in Beyond WIMPs workshop, held at Liverpool from April 27th to April 30th.
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2023/04/06: URA Visiting Scholars Program award and significant contribution to SBND commissioning
David Payne, a senior research staff member at Liverpool,
received a generous
visiting fellowship award by the Universities Research Association,
toping up substantial travel funds obtained by the
INTENSE H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 grant.
The grants will support a long-term attachment at Fermilab, allowing Liverpool to make
key contributions to SBND commissioning and help the experiment transition to physics operations.
David will contribute to the installation and commissioning
of the SBND Cosmic Ray Tagger, and then take on the role of the first SBND Operations Manager.
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2023/03/15-18: Contributions to the Fermilab workshop in Neutrino Event Generators
Marco Roda delivered a number of invited talks
at the recent Fermilab
Workshop on Neutrino Event Generators,
held between 15-18 March at Fermilab,
describing our influential phenomenological work in GENIE.
Marco presented
a
`GENIE Overview',
a description of
`GENIE Event Library tool', and
a summary of
`GENIE Data Comparison tools'.
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2023/01/15: We are opening a post-doctoral position for research on SBN/SBND
We are offering a post-doctoral position to support our strong program on accelerator-based neutrino physics.
The succesful applicant will play a leading role in SBN/SBND physics exploitation.
The position is funded for 2.5 years with a possibility for extension.
Details may be found here.
The application deadline is on April 21st.
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2023/01/15: We are opening PhD positions for research on Quantum Computing
We are opening a PhD position on
Quantum Computing for Neutrino Scattering starting on 1st October 2023.
The position is co-funded by
the
Fermilab Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) Center and
the University of Liverpool through its
Centre
for Doctoral Training for Innovation in Data Intensive Science (LIV.INNO).
Details for the research project may be found
here.
The application deadline is on February 28th.
For outstanding candidates, we may be able to offer more than one PhD position in this area.
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2023/01/25: New PDRA funding secured
The Liverpool Particle Physics group has secured £1.1M in the recent STFC PPGP 2022 PDRA call,
to support several key post-doctoral positions across our programme. The grant will support
a new post-doctoral position in our group, for the full period till the start of the next Consolidated Grant,
to enable us to contribute more effectively in the early SBND and SBN physics exploitation program.
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2023/01/05: New funding for staff exchanges from UKRI
Our group was awarded £40k by UKRI (under the UK guarantee) to support staff exchanges
through our participation in the SENSE
(Search for new physics and technological advancements from neutrino experiments at the high
intensity frontier. A cooperative Europe - United States - Brazil - Russia effort) proposal to
the HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01 grant call.
2022
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2022/10/25: Contributions to NuINT22
Marco Roda delivers an invited talk on the
`Status of GENIE Event Generator'
in NuINT 2022, held between 24-29 October in Seoul (South Korea).
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2022/10/25: New funding for staff exchanges from the EU commission
Our group was awarded £90k by the EU commission to support staff exchanges
through our participation in the INTENSE
(INTENSE: Particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs.
A cooperative Europe - United States - Japan effort) consortium.
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2022/06/23: New GENIE paper on a global analysis of neutrino-nucleus CC0π data
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2022/06/20: Julia passes her PhD viva
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2022/06/14: Beth passes her first year viva
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2022/06/07: Prof. Andreopoulos delivers a Jeremiah Horrocks Public Lecture on neutrino oscillations
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2022/05/25: Jaggar passes his PhD viva
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2022/02/01: Tom starts his Fermilab LTA
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2022/02/24: Francis passes his PhD viva
Our PhD student
Francis Bench
has successfully defended
his PhD thesis titled `Study of Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Oscillations in the 3-Flavour PMNS
Paradigm at the T2K Experiment: Constraints on the Charge-Parity Invariance Violating Phase
and Search for Electron Anti-Neutrino Appearance'.
It is exceptionally hard to describe Francis's contributions within a few lines of a news item.
He led the VALOR T2K 3-flavour fit
through several analysis and collaboration review rounds, wrote numerous technical notes, and had very direct
contribution to the work published in
Nature 580 (2020) 7803, 339-344, in
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 161802 (2020), and in
Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 11, 112008!
For this unprecedented volume and quality of doctoral work, Francis was the recipient of the
2019 John G Rutherglen memorial prize.
We would like to thank Prof. David Wark and Prof. Christos Touramanis
for agreeing to serve in Francis's examination panel.
Congratulations Dr. Bench!
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2022/01/18: Contribution to Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions in the Standard Model and Beyond
Costas Andreopoulos presented a
GENIE update -
in a workshop on Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions in the Standard Model and Beyond
organized by the CERN Theory Dept. and the Neutrino Platform.
2021
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2021/10/01: Welcoming a new PhD student in our group
A warm welome to our new PhD student
Bethany Slater starting today!
Her doctoral research focus on the SBND experiment and she will develop
a complex VALOR-based analysis,
exploiting multiple exclusive and semi-inclusive SBND samples to
produce stringent neutrino flux and cross-section constraints that
would enable the SBN project to reach an unprecedented sensitivity in sterile neutrino searches.
Beth
will be part of LIV.DAT,
the Liverpool Big Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training.
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2021/09/22: Rhiannon passes her PhD viva
Our PhD student
Rhiannon Jones
has successfully defended
her PhD thesis titled `Muon-Neutrino Disappearance with Multiple Liquid Argon Time
Projection Chambers in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam'
on September 22nd.
Rhiannon was a highly successful and hard-working PhD student,
one of the first on SBND, who made ground-breaking contributions in
establishing the SBND simulation and reconstruction chains,
developing exclusive SBND selections based on automated event reconstruction,
leading the development (within the VALOR framework)
of the SBN oscillation analysis, and performing analyses of first mock data to
explore limitations of the current SBN oscillation analysis paradigm.
In addition to her numerous analysis tasks,
over a year-long stay at Fermilab, Rhiannon supported the early SBND construction/installation work.
We would like to thank Dr. Ornella Palamara and Dr. Kostas Mavrokoridis
for serving in the examination panel.
Congratulations Dr. Jones!
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2021/09/08: Contribution to the 22nd Intl' Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NuFact 2021)
Our PhD student Julia Tena-Vidal gave an excellent talk
in NuFact 2021, held between 6-11 September in Cagliari (Italy)
discussing her work on
AGKY Hadronization Model Tuning in GENIE 3.
This is the work that appeared in our paper
posted at the arXiv (e-print: 2106.05884 [hep-ph]) earlier this summer.
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2021/06/21: New T2K oscillation paper with Liverpool / VALOR contribution
A new T2K oscillation paper describing a joint 3-flavour analysis of both
muon-neutrino disappearance and electron-neutrino appearance channels
using all neutrino and antineutrino T2K data in Runs 1-9), has been published in
Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 11, 112008.
This is a longer version of the analysis published in
Nature volume 580, pages 339–344 (2020).
Our PhD student Francis Bench participated in the
paper committee, as this published work included results from the
VALOR neutrino oscillation analysis
with contributions from several members of our group.
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2021/06/18: New GENIE paper highlighting recent v3 developments
A new paper highlighting recent developments in the the well-known
GENIE event generator is now
posted at the arXiv (e-print: 2106.09381 [hep-ph]).
The paper was prepared for a special issue of European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ-ST)
curated by Prof. Sajjad Athar.
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2021/06/16: New GENIE paper on neutrino-induced hadronic multiparticle model tuning
A new paper on neutrino-induced hadronic multiparticle production led by our PhD student
Julia Tena-Vidal is now
posted at the arXiv (e-print: 2106.05884 [hep-ph]).
It presents a new tune of the
Andreopoulos-Gallagher-Kehayias-Yang (AGKY) hadronization model in GENIE
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2021/04/21: New GENIE paper on neutrino-nucleon cross-section model tuning
A new paper summarising the new neutrino-nucleon cross-section model tunes installed in
the well-known GENIE event generator is now
posted at the arXiv (e-print: 2104.09179 [hep-ph]).
The new tunes improve the cross-section modelling of low-multiplicity inelastic channels (single-pion and double-pion production)
and the modelling of the relative contributions of resonance and non-resonance processes to these final states.
Our PhD student Julia Tena-Vidal was the lead analyzer and first author.
Julia is funded through the Liverpool LIV.DAT
CDT on data intensive sciences with a project to develop physics simulation to underpin discoveries in the neutrino sector.
This is the first publication using the GENIE/Professor tuning interface developed by Liverpool post-doc
Marco Roda.
Initial work was supported by a Durham IPPP associateship award.
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2021/03/15-18: Contributions to New Directions in Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (NDNN) workshop
Our work on the GENIE event generator
was featured in many of the talks presented in the
New Directions in Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (NDNN) workshop held online in 15-18 March 2021.
(Click here for the scientific program.)
Two members of the group gave excellent and well-received talks there:
Marco Roda
gave an overview of the
GENIE tuning efforts,
while
Julia Tena-Vidal
discussed
comparisons of final state interaction simulations and validation against hadron-nucleus scattering data.
2020
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2020/02/05: CERN Theory Colloquium by Prof. Andreopoulos
In
a talk presented at the CERN Theory Colloquium,
Costas Andreopoulos
discussed the significance of improving our understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions
and highlight some of the most pertinent puzzles in neutrino interaction physics,
and emphasised open problems in neutrino interaction phenomenology.
We would like to thank Joachim Kopp for the opportunity to discuss these
important issues with a CERN audience.
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2020/01/08-10: Contributions to the Fermilab Generator Tools Workshop
Early in January 2020, Costas Andreopoulos and,
Marco Roda attended the
Fermilab Generator Tools Workshop,
representing the GENIE collaboration
which is responsible for a suite of successful and very popular physics simulations and toolkits
incorporated into the simulation and analysis chain of many neutrino experiments.
Costas
discussed proposals, on behalf
of the GENIE collaboration, that would enable experiments to reuse their well-established
workflows and GENIE interfaces and toolkits (event generation, flux and detector
geometry drivers) in order to run a host of alternative physics simulations
that are development by smaller groups and lack the extensive toolkit present in GENIE.
The proposal, exemplifies the key role of the GENIE group in supporting the development
of physics simulations for the experimental neutrino community:
It would produce significant effiencies in delivering alternative physics simulations into
the full simulation chain of modern experiments, removing the need for duplication of
very extensive toolkits, and allowing developers to focus on the most crucial aspects of physics modelling.
2019
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2019/12/18: Francis wins the 2019 Rutherglen award
Congratulations to our PhD student Francis Bench
for winning the 2019
John G Rutherglen Memorial Prize, for his outstanding work on the
VALOR T2K 3-flavour oscillation analysis
and his contributions to
arXiv:1911.07283 and
arXiv:1910.03887
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2019/11/14: Contribution to T2K publication on electron antineutrino appearance
arXiv:1911.07283
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2019/11/13: Prof. Andreopoulos inaugural lecture
photo #1
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2019/10/09: Contribution to T2K publication describing world's most stringent constraints on leptonic CPV
arXiv:1910.03887
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2019/10/01: Welcoming a new PhD student in our group
A warm welome to our new PhD student
Jaiden Parlone starting today!
His doctoral research focus on the T2K 3-flavour oscillation
measurement using the VALOR analysis,
Jaiden
will be part of LIV.DAT,
the Liverpool Big Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training.
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2019/08/26-31: Contribution to NuFact 2019, Daegu, South Korea
Our PhD student Francis Bench delivered an
outstanding plenary talk at
NuFact 2019, held in Daegu (South Korea) at the end of August,
discussing the
`Current Status and Latest Results from the T2K experiment'.
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2019/07/08-19: Short-term visit to IFIC Valencia (part 1 of 2)
Between the 8th and 19th of July 2019, several members of our group
(Costas Andreopoulos,
Marco Roda, and
Julia Tena-Vidal) took a short-term visited to IFIC
under a KM3NeT Pilot Exchange Program supported by the KM3NeT-INFRADEV H2020 action.
The members of the Liverpool group worked primarily with the group of J.D. Zornoza
on GENIE simulations and interaction systematics in support of the broader KM3NeT physics program.
We would like to thank Juan de Dios for the hospitality, as well as for the
opportunity to spend two weeks focussed on GENIE research together with several
long-time colleagues at IFIC, and enjoy Valencia!
The Liverpool group will be back for a second 2-week visit in fall!
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2019/06/22: Tom Ham passes his first-year viva
Congratulations to our PhD student Tom Ham (SBN/SBND)
for passing his first year PhD viva!
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2019/06/03-08: Contributions to the 2019 ECT* Neutrino Generator workshop, Trento
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2019/04/08-2019/04/12: Hosting the GENIE core developers workshop at Liverpool
Several of the core developers of the GENIE MC simulation
were gathered at the Liverpool Management School between the 8th and 12th and April 2019,
discussing the GENIE infrastructures for quantitative comparisons against scattering data from
neutrino, charged lepton and hadron probes, as well as tools for the global analysis of neutrino scattering data.
The event was organised by our post-doc Marco Roda.
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2019/03/30-2019/04/03: Hosting the SBN Analysis workshop at Pembroke college, Oxford
The 3rd SBN Analysis Workshop was
was co-hosted by Costas Andreopoulos
at Pembroke college, Oxford, from the 30th of March till the 4th of April 2019.
Around 40 participants from US and Europe made substantial progress on several
aspects of SBN event reconsruction, event selection and oscillation analysis.
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2019/01/22-25: Contributions to PHYSTAT-nu 2019 at CERN
Our group made numerous contributions to the
PHYSTAT-nu workshop
held at CERN on 22-25 January 2019.
Costas Andreopoulos presented an invited talk on
`Systematic Uncertainties: The Neutrino Experiment Experience'.
Excellent posters were prepared by our PhD students:
Francis Bench presented
`Updated Results for the Search for
νμ →
νe
Oscillations from T2K in the 3-flavour Framework'
while Julia Tena-Vidal presented a poster on
`Tuning the pion production on free nuclei with GENIE v3'.
2018
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2018/12/21: Rhiannon wins the Best Experimental Poster award in NuPhys2018!
Our PhD student Rhiannon Jones wins the
Best Experimental Poster award in NuPhys2018, competing not only against other students,
but also against postdocs and even adacemics!
Rhiannon won the award with a poster presenting her work on
`Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Zero-Pion Event Selection in SBND'.
This is not the first time Rhiannon wins such an award!
Clearly, a great talent in communicating her research.
Congratulations Rhiannon!
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2018/12/19-21: Contributions to NuPhys2018
Two PhD students of our group presented well-received posters in
NuPhys2018, held at the Cavendish Centre in London.
Francis Bench presented his work on
T2K Three-Flavour Oscillation Analysis for the Determination of δCP,
whereas Rhiannon Jones presented her work on
Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Zero-Pion Event Selection in SBND.
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2018/12/18: A Professorship for Costas!
Costas Andreopoulos was awarded a Chair of Experimental Particle Physics
for outstanding contributions to the Department and advancement of physics.
Congratulations Professor Andreopoulos!
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2018/12/14: Julia wins the Leo Carroll award!
Congratulations to our student Julia Tena Vidal
for receiving the Liverpool HEP Leo Carroll award for outstanding performace
during her first year of post-graduate studies.
Awesome work Julia!
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2018/12/10: Funding success - European Space Agency tender
The European Space Agency has awarded €200k to our group and to GMV Innovating Solutions
for a preliminary exploration of the innovative and disrupting technological concept of
Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) applications based on neutrinos!
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2018/12/03: Funding success - Liverpool GTA funding for a PhD studentship
Our group's proposal for Liverpool GTA funding for a new PhD studentship aiming at
resolving the light-sterile neutrino anomalies using SBN data
analysis was succesfull! We invite applications from suitably qualified candidates.
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2018/12/03: Chris' PhD thesis defense
Congratulations to our student
Chris Barry for succesfully defending his PhD thesis work titled
`Joint Analysis of Neutrino and Antineutrino Data from the T2K Experiment
and Indications for Charge-Parity (CP) Violation'.
Well done Dr. Barry!
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2018/12/29: Contribution to the H2020 Neutrino Oscillations Workshop
Costas Andreopoulos delivers a talk on the
`GENIE3'
at the H2020 Neutrino Oscillations Workshop, Valencia, Spain.
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2018/10/24: Contribution to a newly-published Phys.Rev.Lett paper!
Publication of
Search for CP Violation in Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations by
the T2K Experiment with 2.2E+21 Protons on Target as
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 171802.
The paper includes important contributions from the
VALOR analysis
which is being developed by our group since 2010!
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2018/10/15: New SBN leadership roles for Costas and Marco
Costas Andreopoulos has been appointed
SBN Systematics and Oscillation Sensitivity WG co-convenor,
together with Daniele Gibin (Padova), whereas
Marco Roda has been appointed
Neutrino Generator WG co-convenor,
together with Jarek Nowak (Lancs).
Liverpool is heavily invested and has major leadership roles in the Fermilab SBN programme.
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2018/10/16: Contributions to NuINT18
Our group is well-represented in the
12th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuINT18),
held at GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy.
Our post-doc Marco Roda delivers an overview talk on
`GENIE v3', the first major release of the popular event generator in a more than a decade,
while our student Julia Tena Vidal presents a talk on the
`New physics tunes in GENIE v3'.
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2018/10/13: More contributions to NuSTEC DIS Workshop
Costas Andreopoulos delivers a talk on the
`GENIE neutrino-induced hadronization model'
at the NuSTEC Workshop on Shallow- and Deep-Inelastic Scattering, held at GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy.
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2018/10/11: Contributions to NuSTEC DIS Workshop
Our student Julia Tena Vidal delivers a talk on the
`Tuning of pion production in GENIE v3'
at the NuSTEC Workshop on Shallow- and Deep-Inelastic Scattering, held at GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy.
The talk summarises the excellent work completed by Julia in the first year of her PhD!
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2018/10/01: Welcoming a new PhD student in our group
A warm welome to our new PhD student Thomas Ham
who will be carrying out research in the Fermilab SBN programme!
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2018/08/20: Important new Departmental role for Costas
Costas Andreopoulos has been appointed
Deputy Director for Equality and Diversity
and will assist Prof. Tim Veal in this crucially important role,
shaping up the REF and TEF environment, and contributing effectively
to the implementation of the Liverpool 2026 strategy.
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2018/07/20: A Long Term Attachement to support SBND
Good luck to our PhD student Rhiannon Jones who
is starting her year-long LTA (Long Term Attachment) at Fermilab for work on the SBN programme!
Rhiannon's LTA is fully funded by STFC.
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2018/07/11: An important higher-education teaching award/qualification for Costas
Congratulations to Costas Andreopoulos for
the award of a Fellowship of the
Higher Education Academy (HEA),
recognizing excellence and commitmment in teaching and learning in the higher education sector.
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2018/06/07: Contributions to Neutrino2018
Our group had a strong presence
in Neutrino 2018 in Heidelberg, Germany -
The largest gathering of neutrino physicists to date with more than 800 participants!
Five excellent posters were presented by our group in this conference:
Our postdoc Steve Dennis described the
VALOR neutrino oscillation fit,
while our PhD student Francis Bench presented
updated T2K electron-antineutrino appearance results from his VALOR-based analysis.
Our postdoc Marco Roda highlighted new results
from our global analysis of neutrino scattering data and the new physics
tunes deployed in the latest release of the
GENIE neutrino generator.
Finally, our PhD students
Rhiannon Jones and Julia Tena Vidal
described some of the outstanding progress in our preparations for charged current zero-pion and
single-pion measurements in SBND. Congratulations to all!
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2018/06/22: Our new PhD students pass their first-year viva
Congratulations to our PhD students Julia Tena Vidal (SBN / GENIE)
and Jaggar Henzerling (SBN / Deep Learning) for passing their
first year PhD viva!
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2018/06/22: A new SBND role for Costas
Costas Andreopoulos was appointed to serve in the
SBND Speakers Committee.
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2018/02/13: A seminar on GENIE
Our post-doc Marco Roda presents a talk on
`GENIE global tunes for LBL experiments -
A first application: global fit of CC0π datasets'
at the Cavendish HEP Seminar in Cambridge, UK.
2017
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2017/12/21: Contribution to NuPhys2017
Our PhD student Francis Bench presents a poster
on our VALOR
`T2K Three-Flavour Oscillation Analysis for the Determination δCP'
at the NuPhys2017 conference in London, UK.
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2017/10/21: GENIE seminar in Bologna
Our post-doc Marco Roda delivers a seminar on
`GENIE global tunes for LBL experiments -
A first application: global fit of CC0π datasets'
at the University of Bologna, Italy.
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2017/10/15: MPHYS projects on Deep Learning
This year our group will offer two MPHYS research projects on
Deep Learning applications for LArTPC event reconstruction:
Our warm welcome to 4th-yr Reece Shaw
and Josh Warren who will be joing us!
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2017/10/01: Welcoming two new PhD students in our group
A warm welcome to our two new PhD students Julia Tena Vidal
and Jaggar Henzerling!
Julia and Jaggar will be carrying out their research in the Fermilab SBN programme
and will help develop the GENIE global analysis of neutrino scattering data
and applications of Deep Learning for liquid Argon TPC event reconstruction.
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2017/09/27: Contribution to NUFACT2017
Our post-doc Marco Roda delivers a talk on
`GENIE model and global fit to neutrino scattering data'
at the 19th Intl' Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators
(NUFACT2017) in Uppsala, Sweden.
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2017/09/15: Rhiannon wins UK-wide HEP poster competition
Congratulations to our PhD student Rhiannon Jones for winning the
poster competition at the annual STFC HEP Summer School!
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2017/09/14: GENIE seminar at Fermilab
Our post-doc Marco Roda
delivers a Fermilab NPC seminar on
our `Global Analysis of Neutrino Scattering Data and GENIE tunes'.
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2017/09/01: IPPP Associateship Award for Costas
Congratulations to Costas Andreopoulos for receiving an extension of
his IPPP Associateship Award!
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2017/08/04: Our VALOR/T2K work leads to first hints for CP invariance violation by neutrinos
Press release
on the T2K hints for CP invariance violation by neutrinos!
Our group played a key role in this 3-flavour oscillation result through the development of the
VALOR analysis,
and our PhD student Chris Barry was a lead analyzer.
This beautiful and world-leading result will be presented in detail in Chris' PhD dissertation!
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2017/07/06: Contribution to MCnet Monte Carlo School
Costas Andreopoulos delivers a lecture on
`Neutrino Monte Carlo Generators' at the
MCnet Monte Carlo School in Lund, Sweden
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2017/06/22: Our new PhD students pass their first-year viva
Congratulations to our PhD students Rhiannon Jones (SBN)
and Francis Bench (T2K) for passing their
first year PhD viva!
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2017/05/16: Contribution to published DUNE Near Detector Task Force (NDTF) report
Publication of the DUNE Near Detector Task Force (NDTF) report
(DUNE-doc-1792)
co-authored by Costas Andreopoulos
and our post-docs Steve Dennis and George Christodoulou.
Our group played a crucial role in this effort, co-developed the simulation of the High-Pressure Gaseous Argon
Time Projection Chamber (HPGArTPC) option for the DUNE Near Detector (ND), and provided the first end-to-end 3-flavour
oscillation analysis for DUNE for the evaluation of all ND design options.
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2017/05/13: Contribution to CoSSURF2017
Costas Andreopoulos delivers a talk on
`Neutrino Cross-Sections' at the
Conference of Science at the Sanford
Underground Research Facility (CoSSURF), in Rapid City, US.
Our PhD student Rhiannon Jones presented a related poster on our
`Global Analysis of Neutrino Scattering Data and GENIE tunes'.
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2017/06/29: Contribution to NuINT2017
Costas Andreopoulos presents the
`Near Detector of the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Programme',
while our post-doc Steve Dennis reports on the status of
`Neutrino Interaction Systematics for the T2K Oscillation Analysis',
at the 11th Intl' Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions
in the Few-GeV Region (NuINT17) in Toronto, Canada.
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2017/05/15: URA travel grant awarded to Rhiannon and Steve
Congratulations to our PhD student Rhiannon Jones
and post-doctoral researcher Steve Dennis
who were awarded $1550 each by the Universities Research Association (URA)
to present their work on the GENIE global analysis of scattering data
and on the VALOR neutrino oscillation analysis,
at New Perspectives at Fermilab.
They were 2 only 11 early stage researchers who received funding by URA.
The URA is a consortium of 90 leading research-intensive universities in US, Canada, Japan, Italy and the UK.
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2017/04/19: Contribution to NuSTEC Topical Meeting on Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
Costas Andreopoulos
delivers a talk on the
`Impact of Neutrino Interaction Uncertainties on VALOR Oscillation Fits'
at the Topical Meeting on Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in Durham, UK.
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2017/04/15: CoSSURF17 travel grant awarded to Rhiannon
Congratulations to our PhD student Rhiannon Jones
who received a $600 travel grant to present her work on SBND and
at the Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (CoSSURF17).
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2017/04/10: Contribution to a newly-published Phys.Rev.Lett paper!
Publication of
Combined Analysis of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations at T2K
as
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151801.
The paper includes important contributions from the
VALOR analysis
which is being developed by our group since 2010!
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2017/04/04: Contribution to DIS2017
Costas Andreopoulos delivers a talk on
`Neutrino-Nucleon/Nucleus Interaction Measurements at the Few-GeV Energy Scale'
at the 25th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering
and Related Topics (DIS2017) in Birmingham, UK.
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2017/03/21: Contribution to 2nd Workshop on Neutrino Near Detectors based on gas TPCs
Costas Andreopoulos presents an
`Evaluation of Systematic Constraints and CP Symmetry Violation Sensitivity
with the High-Pressure Gaseous Argon Time Projection Chamber (HPGArTPC) Near Detector Concept' at
the 2nd Workshop on Neutrino Near Detectors based on gas TPCs, at CERN.
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2017/03/07: T2K seminar in Cambridge
Costas Andreopoulos presents the
`Latest Results from the T2K Experiment on CP Violation'
at the Cavendish HEP Seminar in Cambridge, UK.
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2017/03/05: Funding approval - GENIE studentship as part of LIV.DAT
Funding approval for the
LIV.DAT
Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data-Intensive Sciences, providing support for several new PhD studentships.
One of the students will work within our group and will focus on
Physics Simulations to Underpin Discoveries in the Neutrino Sector.
