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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

Planned Impact

Refer to ATLAS-UK upgrade proposal to PPRP: "UPGRADING THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT FOR THE LUMINOSITY FRONTIER AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

Publications

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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

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Aaboud M (2018) Search for new phenomena using the invariant mass distribution of same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pairs in events with missing transverse momentum in s=13   Tepp collisions with the ATLAS detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Aaboud M (2018) Measurement of colour flow using jet-pull observables in t t ¯ events with the ATLAS experiment at s = 13 TeV. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Aaboud M (2019) Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into same-sign W boson pairs with the ATLAS detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Atlas Collaboration (2016) Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Aaboud M (2017) Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with two leptons in s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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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

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Aad G (2016) Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Aaboud M (2018) Measurement of longitudinal flow decorrelations in Pb+Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Aaboud M (2018) Direct top-quark decay width measurement in the t t ¯ lepton+jets channel at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

 
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