Studies of electroweak boson production in the forward region with LHCb

Studies of electroweak boson production at LHCb are detailed and discussed. Proposed signal selection schemes and background suppression strategies are described and the projected performance is estimated using Monte Carlo data. Due to the unique pseudorapidity coverage and triggering capabilities of LHCb, these studies will probe an unexplored region of x, Q^2 space.Comment: Presented at "XVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects", (DIS2010) Firenze, 19-23rd April 201

Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish Countryside

End of project reportThe purpose of the study is to examine housing in the Irish countryside. Housing in the countryside has become an increasingly contested issue in Ireland due to processes of rural change. The realm of debate is around issues such as who has the right to live in the countryside and how traditional settlement patterns can be sustained into the future. The debate, which has many contributors from politics, media and interest groups, has suffered from a lack of large-scale empirical research. The release of a combination of data from the 2002 Census of Population (house type with type sewerage facility used) has allowed this research to establish the spatial extent of single rural dwellings, the most contested and least known about element of living in the Irish countryside. Using this data in conjunction with the study of local level housing processes, a greater understanding of rural housing in Ireland has been established

You Will Hear Each Question Only Once

This poem by Christopher Keaveney originally appeared in Ink

Peach Blossom Spring

This poem by Chris Keaveney originally appeared in Anapest

Thoughts and Prayers

This poem by Christopher T. Keaveney originally appeared in Clementine Unbound

Fluctuating force-coupling method for interacting colloids

This paper was presented at the 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2014), which was held at University College, London, UK. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, IPEM, the Process Intensification Network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Heat Transfer Society, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group, and the Energy Institute, ASME Press, LCN London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL University College London, UCL Engineering, the International NanoScience Community, www.nanopaprika.eu.Brownian motion plays an important role in the dynamics of colloidal suspensions. It affects rheological properties, influences the self-assembly of structures, and regulates particle transport. While including Brownian motion in simulations is necessary to reproduce and study these effects, it is computationally intensive due to the configuration dependent statistics of the particles’ random motion. We will present recent work that speeds up this calculation for the force-coupling method (FCM), a regularized multipole approach to simulating suspensions at large-scale. We show that by forcing the surrounding fluid with a configurationindependent, white-noise stress, fluctuating FCM yields the correct particle random motion, even when higherorder terms, such as the stresslets, are included in the multipole expansion. We present results from several simulations demonstrating the effectiveness of this approach for modern problems in colloidal science and discuss open questions such as the extension of fluctuating FCM to dense suspensions

Search for standard model production of four top quarks in the lepton + jets channel in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV

A search is presented for standard model (SM) production of four top quarks ($t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$) in pp collisions in the lepton + jets channel. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb$^{-1}$ recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. A combination of kinematic reconstruction and multivariate techniques is used to distinguish between the small signal and large background. The data are consistent with expectations of the SM, and an upper limit of 32 fb is set at a 95\% confidence level on the cross section for producing four top quarks in the SM, where a limit of $32\pm{17}$ fb is expected.Comment: Proceedings of poster presented at TOP2014, the 7th International Workshop on Top Quark Physic