Particle Physics Group

The ATLAS Experiment

The ATLAS detecter at CERN is designed to take full advantage of the very high energy (14TeV), high luminosity (10³⁴cm^-2s^-1) proton-proton collisions of the LHC. ATLAS will be able to study the properties of the Higgs boson in a range of decay modes, or else put very strict limits on its existence. ATLAS will also be sensitive to other exotic phenomena, such as supersymmetry, extra dimensions, quark compositeness, and more. Many standard model parameters like the mass of the top quark will be measured to very high precision thanks to the enormous numbers produced.

Manchester Contributions

The Manchester group is making important contributions to the ATLAS experiment:

• Inner Detector/ Silicon Central Tracker:
  • Forward SCT end cap module design and testing.
  • Production of over 600 SCT end cap modules.
  • Inner detector alignment.
  • Inner detector magnetic field survey and monitoring.
  • Creating a database for SCT construction quality assurance.
  • Managing the SCT System Test and integration at CERN
  • Calculating the radiation length of SCT end cap modules
  • Pixel Detector Upgrade
• ATLAS Trigger
• Trigger Configuration System
• Inner Detector Event Filter Reconstruction
• Physics Analysis.
  • Forward Physics
  • Top Physics
  • Charged Higgs in top decays
  • WW Scattering
  • W + 2 photon production
  • Trigger Activities
• ATLAS Commissioning
  • Software validation
  • Full Dress Rehearsal

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People

• Gareth Brown
• Vikash Chavda
• Brian Cox
• Cinzia DaVia
• Andrew Elvin
• Alessandra Forti
• Julian Freestone
• James Howarth
• Graham Jones
• Kiran Joshi
• Joel Klinger
• Fred Loebinger
• Alex Martyniuk
• Lynn Marx
• Jiri Masik
• Tom Neep
• Alex Oh
• Mark Owen
• Jo Pater
• Mike Perry
• Yvonne Peters
• Konstantinos Petris
• Andrew Pilkington
• Keith Potter
• Sabah Salih
• Christian Schwanenberger
• Stefan Sölder-Rembold
• Ray Thompson
• Lee Tomlinson
• Omran Trifis
• Chendamangalam Viswanathan
• Steve Watts
• Terry Wyatt
• Un-ki Yang

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Useful Links

• Manchester ATLAS Wiki pages
• AARG - a glossary of ATLAS related acronyms
• General SCT pages at CERN , LBL, KEK, Munich, Liverpool, Melbourne, Sheffield,
• Test beam pages at CERN (online), CERN (offline), Oslo, Valencia.
• Module drawings on CERN EDMS.
• Jig and test box drawings at Valencia.
• Spines at MPI.
• Module page at Freiburg.

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