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The Atlas experiment runs at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located
near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC provides proton, proton collisions at
an energy of 7-14 TeV. The data taking is just beginning (Mar. 2010),
but the LHC is already the highest energy accelerator ever.
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| The SBU group built high voltage feedthroughs and operates electronics for the calorimeter, is providing calorimeter calibration using J/Y mesons, Z and W bosons and converted photons. We also are experts for the pixel detector and are building upgrades to the tracking system... |
| ... and the calorimeter has been tested for two years using ever present cosmic rays... | |||||
| proton-proton collisions have already occurred and an example is shown below | |||||
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Data and simulated event comparison of energy deposited in the
Atlas calorimeter by cosmic rays
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| The first Atlas physics publication "Charged particle multiplicities in pp interaction at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV measured with the Atlas detector at the LHC" has been published in Phys. Lett. B | |||||
group members at SBU (back row, left-to-right): Yan Ke, Bob McCarthy, Dmitri Tsybychev, John Hobbs, Giacinto Piacquadio; (front row, left-to-right): Ilaria Luise, Dean Schamberger, Mars Lyukova, Fan-Ying Tsai
(Not Shown: Michael Rijssenbeek, Paul Grannis)
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group members at CERN (left-to-right): Chris Bee, Yesenia Hernandez-Jimenez, Vakhtang Tsiskaridze
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| Previous Group Photos | |
| We're expecting to see something new at the LHC, but what will it be? | |
Maybe the Higgs boson |
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or Supersymmetry |
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or maybe even mini black holes...
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