ATLAS Upgrade R&D 2016
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Refer to ATLAS-UK upgrade proposal to PPRP: "UPGRADING THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT FOR THE LUMINOSITY FRONTIER AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
PPRP meeting, September 2012
PPRP meeting, September 2012
Planned Impact
Refer to ATLAS-UK upgrade proposal to PPRP: "UPGRADING THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT FOR THE LUMINOSITY FRONTIER AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
Publications
Aad G
(2016)
Performance of pile-up mitigation techniques for jets in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross-sections of prompt and non-prompt production of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in dijet mass and angular distributions from pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2016)
Search for strong gravity in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2016)
Search for strong gravity in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2016)
Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2016)
Measurement of D?±, D± and D s ± meson production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
| Description | The main goal of this grant is to construct an upgrade for the ATLAS detector at the LHC. At the same time the development of the cooling for the ATLAS inner detector led to collaboration with industry in the area of titanium welding using in the aerospace sector |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | ATLAS Collaboration |
| Organisation | ATLAS Experiment |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Sheffield team is a founder of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and contributes to its construction, development and exploitation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Construction of the Semiconductor tracker, development of the software and computing of the experiment. Physics analysis, Higgs, Standard Model, Supersymmetry, top |
| Impact | Discovery of the Higgs boson and many others |
| Description | Hep Software foundation |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN - Other |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The SWIFT-HEP team participates to the collaboration by providing leadership roles as well as contributing to the software development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Simulation software, development of the AdePT code which allows simulation of particle interaction on GPU Event generations. Improvement of the software used to describe the W/Z + jet process resulting in a factor x10 improvement in compute performance. |
| Impact | See publication list |
| Start Year | 2019 |