Research in the High Energy Physics Group

The UCL HEP group is involved in the development of novel accelerators, particularly plasma wakefield acceleration.

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN, studying the highest energy particle collisions ever produced in a laboratory. Physics and performance feasibility studies to inform the next energy frontier collider.

Carbon sequestration and other climate related studies.

The Cosmoparticle Initiative links UCL’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

Direct detection of dark matter with the LZ and XLZD experiments, and quantum sensors

Information on the HEP Projects hosted in the DISI Centre

Developing new detectors, data acquisition, readout electronics and other infrastructure across our research programme.

Hidden sector searches with the SHiP Experiment at CERN, and the SND Experiment.

Precision tests of the Standard Model using muons: lepton flavour violation searches with Mu2e at FNAL and Mu3e at PSI.

Studying the neutrino sector though oscillation measurements.

Precision tests of the Standard Model: magnetic and electric dipole moments with Muon g-2 at FNAL and MuEDM at PSI; proposed proton electric dipole experiment at BNL.

Testing the majorana or dirac nature of neutrinos at the SuperNEMO and LEGEND Experiments

Proton structure, next-generation Monte Carlo simulations for colliders, and models of Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Detector systems and diagnostics for proton beam therapy cancer treatment.

Quantum Technologies and the Absolute Neutrino Mass