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Members of the Group exercise significant influence in many of the current and future international experiments that investigate the fundamental particles and the forces between them. Experiments are planned or underway at the major particle physics laboratories in Europe, the USA and Japan.
A primary aim is to address basic questions such as the origin of mass and the observed asymmetry between matter and anti-matter. Much of the programme is directed at discovering where the Standard Model, which has proved amazingly successful in the description of electro-weak interactions, will break down, since theoretical expectations imply that it cannot be the final story. This will be accomplished by testing predictions to high accuracy and looking for phenomena outside the model such as supersymmetry and extra dimensions. Already outside the Standard Model, the recently discovered neutrino oscillations will be investigated with new superbeam experiments.
The Group also conducts a programme of state of the art detector development and is embarking upon a programme of accelerator R&D aimed at the eventual construction of a neutrino factory. This will allow an investigation of matter anti-matter asymmetry in the neutrino area.
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