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
Atlas Collaboration
(2017)
Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless [Formula: see text] decays with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity inside jets from [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] pp collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Collaboration T
(2020)
Operation of the ATLAS trigger system in Run 2
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2019)
Resolution of the ATLAS muon spectrometer monitored drift tubes in LHC Run 2
in Journal of Instrumentation
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 |