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
Aaboud M
(2017)
Evidence for the H ? b b ¯ $$ H\to b\overline{b} $$ decay with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the cross section for inclusive isolated-photon production in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to bb[over ¯] Using 36 fb^{-1} of pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2017)
Study of the material of the ATLAS inner detector for Run 2 of the LHC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in a lepton plus high jet multiplicity final state with the ATLAS experiment using s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for squarks and gluinos in events with an isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the W+W- production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters 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 |