ATLAS UK Upgrade Proposal
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
ATLAS Upgrade project as previously described
Publications
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and b-jets
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for massive long-lived highly ionising particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in vs=7 TeV pp collisions.
in Physical review letters
Aad D.
(2011)
Luminosity determination in pp collisions at vs = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the Z ? t t cross section with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
| Description | ATLAS |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Tracking R&D and construction, software, distributed computing systems, detector operations, trigger performance and design, Standard Model, B-physics, Onium, Higgs, Top and SUSY studies; ran UK software and computing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detector operations, computing operations, software, shared physics tools |
| Impact | currently O(200) papers in press (Feb 2013) |
| Description | 5 Particle Physics Masterclasses/Residentials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Increases interest in science and particle physics Increased applications to Lancaster, citing particle phsyics interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Big bang fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Big Bang Fair, general science exhibition at the NEC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | many thousands saw stands on the Grid/Higgs physics/Beyond the Higgs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2011,2014 |