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)
Search for the production of single vector-like and excited quarks in the Wt final state in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2019)
Measurement of $$K_S^0$$ and $$\Lambda ^0$$ production in $$t \bar{t}$$ dileptonic events in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} =$$ 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2016)
Test of CP invariance in vector-boson fusion production of the Higgs boson using the Optimal Observable method in the ditau decay channel with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2020)
Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector in Run 2
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2024)
Search for the decay of the Higgs boson to a Z boson and a light pseudoscalar particle decaying to two photons
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2023)
Tools for estimating fake/non-prompt lepton backgrounds with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2016)
Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a W boson at 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| 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 |