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
(2024)
Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2022)
Measurement of the c-jet mistagging efficiency in $$t\bar{t}$$ events using pp collision data at $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ $$\text {TeV}$$ collected with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2021)
Measurements of top-quark pair single- and double-differential cross-sections in the all-hadronic channel in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2019)
Properties of jet fragmentation using charged particles measured with the ATLAS detector in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
| 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 |