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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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Aad G (2020) Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2 in Journal of Instrumentation

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Aad G (2020) ATLAS data quality operations and performance for 2015-2018 data-taking in Journal of Instrumentation

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Aaboud M (2019) Modelling radiation damage to pixel sensors in the ATLAS detector in Journal of Instrumentation

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Aad G (2024) Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data in Journal of Instrumentation

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Aad G (2023) Tools for estimating fake/non-prompt lepton backgrounds with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in Journal of Instrumentation

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Collaboration T (2020) Operation of the ATLAS trigger system in Run 2 in Journal of Instrumentation

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Aad G (2020) Performance of the upgraded PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger in Journal of Instrumentation

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ATLAS Collaboration (2023) Author Correction: A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery. in Nature

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Aad G (2016) A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}\;=\;8\;{\rm{TeV}}$ with the ATLAS detector in New Journal of Physics

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Kneale L (2023) Coincidence-based reconstruction for reactor antineutrino detection in gadolinium-doped Cherenkov detectors in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

 
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