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
• ATLAS Trigger
• Trigger Configuration System
• Inner Detector Event Filter Reconstruction
• Physics Analysis.
  • Forward Physics: fp420
  • 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

• John Almond
• Stefan Ask
• Paul Bell
• Gareth Brown
• Vikash Chavda
• Brian Cox
• Cinzia DaVia
• Andrew Elvin
• Alessandra Forti
• Julian Freestone
• Jasmine Hasi
• Simon Head
• Richard Hughes-Jones
• Graham Jones
• James Keates
• Scott Kolya
• Jenna Lane
• Fred Loebinger
• Alex Martyniuk
• Paul S Miyagawa
• Mark Owen
• Jo Pater
• Mike Perry
• Andrew Pilkington
• Keith Potter
• Sabah Salih
• Christian Schwanenberger
• Steve Snow
• Chris Tevlin
• Ray Thompson
• Steve Watts
• Thorsten Wengler
• 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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