ATLAS Upgrade 2012
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
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" PPRP meeting, September 2012
Publications
Aad G
(2014)
Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of ? c1 and ? c2 production with s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for flavour-changing neutral current top quark decays t ? Hq in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Acciarri R
(2017)
Michel electron reconstruction using cosmic-ray data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2014)
Monitoring and data quality assessment of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Allan D
(2013)
The electromagnetic calorimeter for the T2K near detector ND280
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abdallah J
(2013)
Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2014)
Operation and performance of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2015)
Modelling Z ? tt processes in ATLAS with t-embedded Z ? µµ data
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2014)
A neural network clustering algorithm for the ATLAS silicon pixel detector
in Journal of Instrumentation
Acciarri R
(2017)
Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Adamson P
(2016)
The NuMI neutrino beam
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Rybar M
(2014)
Angular correlations of jets in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2013)
Dynamics of isolated-photon plus jet production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Colling D
(2013)
Processing LHC data in the UK.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Aad G
(2015)
Z boson production in p + Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of event-plane correlations in s NN = 2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of differential J / ? production cross sections and forward-backward ratios in p + Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2013)
Measurements of W ? and Z ? production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in W + W - b b ¯ events with the ATLAS detector in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for resonant diboson production in the W W / W Z ? l ? j j decay channels with the ATLAS detector at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections for t t ¯ production in p p collisions at ( s ) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Comprehensive measurements of t -channel single top-quark production cross sections at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Study of heavy-flavor quarks produced in association with top-quark pairs at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for t t ¯ resonances in the lepton plus jets final state with ATLAS using 4.7 fb - 1 of p p collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Searches for Higgs boson pair production in the h h ? b b t t , ? ? W W * , ? ? b b , b b b b channels with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z ? e µ in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for new phenomena in events with three charged leptons at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of spin correlation in top-antitop quark events from proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of upsilon production in 7 TeV p p collisions at ATLAS
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to a a in the µ µ t t final state in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physical Review D
| Description | In part lead to a bid to the MRC with potential medical impact Associated Newton fund bids sharing the basic technology |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic |
| 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 | GridPP |
| Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
| Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
| Description | GridPP |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Department | GRIDPP3 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
| Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
| Description | WLCG |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations; Collaboration Board Member and Chair |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations, co-ordination |
| Impact | All LHC and Tevatron papers |
| 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 |
| Description | WOMAD 2016 Physics Pavilion |
| 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 | Curated the first phsycis pavilion at the WOMAD festival 2016 in Wiltshire. Totoal attendence over 40,000, through the tent 4000 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |