ATLAS UK Upgrade Proposal
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
ATLAS Upgrade project as previously described
Publications
Aad G
(2010)
Commissioning of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer with cosmic rays
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the decay channel $H^{+} \rightarrow c\bar{s}$ in $t\bar{t}$ events using pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
The ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons in like-sign dilepton final states at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for top and bottom squarks from gluino pair production in final states with missing transverse energy and at least three b-jets with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Measurements of underlying-event properties using neutral and charged particles in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=900$ GeV and $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7~\mbox{TeV}$ with ATLAS
in The European Physical Journal C
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)
Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2010)
Readiness of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter for LHC collisions
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 |
