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

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Aad G (2020) Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbl?l? final state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV in Physics Letters B

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Aad G (2019) Measurement of $$W^{\pm }$$-boson and Z-boson production cross-sections in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=2.76$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector in The European Physical Journal C

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Aad G (2016) Addendum to 'Measurement of the $$t\bar{t}$$ t t ¯ production cross-section using $$e\mu $$ e µ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$ s = 7 and 8  $$\,\mathrm{TeV}$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector' in The European Physical Journal C

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Aad G (2019) Measurement of the production cross section for a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson in the H ? WW? ? l?l? channel in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector in Physics Letters B

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Aad G (2016) Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at s = 8  TeV with the ATLAS detector in Physics Letters B

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Aad G (2020) Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying into a Photon and a Hadronically Decaying Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. in Physical review letters

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Aad G (2020) Search for the Higgs boson decays H ? ee and H ? eµ in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector in Physics Letters B

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Aad G (2020) Reconstruction and identification of boosted di-t systems in a search for Higgs boson pairs using 13 TeV proton-proton collision data in ATLAS in Journal of High Energy Physics

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Aad G (2020) Search for Higgs boson decays into two new low-mass spin-0 particles in the 4 b channel with the ATLAS detector using p p collisions at s = 13 TeV in Physical Review D

 
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