Atlas : : A 25-year Insider Story Of The Lhc Experiment.

• Superior document: Advanced Series On Directions In High Energy Physics ; v.30
• Author: Jenni, Peter.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dittus, Fridolin.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : World Scientific Publishing Company,, 2019.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Advanced Series On Directions In High Energy Physics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1. Towards the ATLAS Letter of Intent
• 1.1 The early historical context
• 1.2 The physics case for the LHC: A brief history
• 1.3 The LHC design and its early evolution
• 1.4 Early ideas about instrumentation and detector requirements
• 1.5 Research and development (R&amp
• D) to meet the LHC challenges
• 1.6 Proto-collaborations for the Evian meeting
• 1.7 Merging of toroid concepts, the ATLAS Letter of Intent
• ATLAS first data taking
• 2. The ATLAS Detector Today
• 2.1 The ATLAS detector layout
• 2.2 The ATLAS magnet system
• 2.3 The Muon Spectrometer
• 2.4 The calorimeters
• 2.5 The Inner Detector
• 2.6 The forward detectors
• 2.7 The trigger and data-acquisition system
• ATLAS operations today and acting on the unforeseen
• Interactions with the LHC and with the other experiments
• 3. Building up the Collaboration
• 3.1 The initial years and the global international context
• 3.2 Reaching out to the world
• 3.3 The ATLAS organisation
• It's a PROC's life. . .
• Data quality as seen by the liquid argon team
• 4. From the LoI to the Detector Construction
• 4.1 Early technology decisions
• 4.2 The example of the toroid magnet technology choice
• 4.3 Descoping to meet the CORE budget
• 4.4 The Technical Design Reports
• 4.5 CORE costs, overcosts and costs to completion
• 4.6 Sharing the operation costs
• Luminosity and a van der Meer scan
• From data to big data in ATLAS
• 5. Detector Construction Around the World
• 5.1 The magnet system
• 5.2 The Inner Detector and its subsystems
• 5.2.1 The Pixel Detector
• 5.2.2 The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT)
• 5.2.3 The Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT)
• 5.3 The LAr accordion electromagnetic calorimetry
• 5.3.1 Common procurements from industry
• 5.3.2 Construction of the modules
• 5.3.3 Assembly at CERN.
• 5.3.4 Construction and installation of the electronics
• 5.4 The Hadronic Endcap and Forward Calorimeters
• 5.4.1 Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter (HEC)
• 5.4.2 Forward Calorimeter (FCal)
• 5.5 Cryostats and feedthroughs
• 5.6 The Tile Calorimeter
• 5.6.1 Submodule and module absorber structure
• 5.6.2 Module instrumentation
• 5.6.3 Electronics integration
• 5.6.4 Pre-assembly and installation into ATLAS
• 5.7 Muon Spectrometer chambers
• 5.7.1 Muon momentum measurement: MDTs and CSCs
• 5.7.2 Muon trigger chambers: RPCs in the barrel
• 5.7.3 Muon trigger chambers: TGCs in the endcap
• 5.7.4 Alignment system
• 5.8 Forward detectors
• 5.9 The trigger and data acquisition systems
• 5.9.1 The trigger system
• 5.9.2 The data acquisition, DAQ
• Inner-detector material radiography
• The road to the first minimum-bias publication
• 6. Installation of the Detectors and Technical Coordination
• 6.1 Cavern and civil engineering
• 6.2 Feet and rails, access structures, shielding
• 6.3 Magnet system installation
• 6.4 Installation of detector components
• 6.5 Cables and pipes
• 6.6 Detector closing and opening
• 6.7 Control room
• 6.8 Technical Coordination and schedules
• A very different sort of ATLAS Upgrade Week
• Test beam adventures
• 7. Trigger, Software and Computing
• 7.1 The ATLAS software for reconstruction and simulation
• 7.1.1 The Athena software framework
• 7.1.2 The ATLAS simulation
• 7.1.3 Event reconstruction
• 7.2 Event selection at the trigger level
• 7.3 Data preparation
• 7.4 The worldwide computing grid and ATLAS computing
• LHC Day One: In the ATLAS computing control room
• Earth, Wind, and Fire. And Water too.
• 8. From Testbeams to First Physics
• 8.1 From components to combined testbeams
• 8.2 Calibration and alignment
• 8.2.1 Calibration and alignment of the detector subsystems.
• 8.2.2 Calibration of physics objects
• 8.3 Commissioning with cosmic rays in the pit
• 8.4 First low energy collisions
• 8.5 First glimpse at the ATLAS performance
• 8.6 Re-discovering the Standard Model
• Jet substructure in ATLAS
• Taming pile-up
• 9. Highlights of Physics Results (2010-2018)
• 9.1 The discovery of the Higgs boson
• 9.1.1 A textbook discovery
• 9.1.2 A gift of nature
• 9.1.3 The discovery channels
• 9.1.4 The precise measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson
• 9.1.5 From "Higgs-like" to the Higgs boson
• 9.1.6 Evidence of Yukawa couplings to fermions
• 9.1.7 Does the discovered boson interact as predicted by the SM?
• 9.1.8 A flurry of new ideas redefining the landscape of Higgs physics
• 9.1.9 Higgs physics at Run-2 and beyond
• 9.1.10 Outlook
• 9.2 Measurements of Standard Model processes
• 9.2.1 Minimum bias, jet and single gauge boson processes
• 9.2.2 Diboson and triboson processes
• 9.2.3 The bottom quark
• 9.2.4 The top quark
• 9.3 Searches for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model
• 9.3.1 The hunt begins
• 9.3.2 Motivation to search for extension to the Standard Model
• 9.3.3 Search techniques
• 9.3.4 Pair production searches
• 9.3.5 Dark matter searches
• 9.3.6 Searches for extra dimensions
• 9.3.7 New types of quarks
• 9.3.8 Extreme exotica
• 9.3.9 Outlook: Searches in the next decades
• 9.4 Supersymmetry
• 9.4.1 A brief history of SUSY at ATLAS
• 9.4.2 Searches for first- and second-generation squark and gluinos
• 9.4.3 The quest for third-generation squarks
• 9.4.4 The new challenge: Electroweak SUSY partners
• 9.4.5 R-parity violation and long-lived particles
• 9.5 Heavy-ion physics
• The road to the first ATLAS 13TeV results
• The road to the first ATLASW-mass measurement
• 10. Towards the High-Luminosity LHC
• 10.1 Setting the stage
• 10.1.1 LHC and ATLAS upgrade plans.
• 10.1.2 ATLAS performance at the High-Luminosity LHC
• 10.1.3 The ATLAS physics programme at the HL-LHC
• 10.2 Improvements during the first long shutdown, LS-1
• 10.2.1 The Pixel Detector upgrade
• 10.2.2 New read-out services for the Pixel Detector
• 10.3 Detector upgrades for increasing luminosities, Phase-I
• 10.3.1 First-level calorimeter and topological trigger upgrades
• 10.3.2 A fast-tracking system, FTK, for the trigger
• 10.3.3 New inner endcap muon chambers - the New Small Wheels
• 10.4 Major detector upgrades for HL-LHC, Phase-II
• 10.4.1 The inner tracker upgrade (ITk)
• 10.4.2 The upgrade of the calorimeter read-out electronics
• 10.4.3 A new High Granularity Timing Detector in the forward region
• 10.4.4 The Muon Spectrometer upgrade
• 10.4.5 The trigger and data acquisition upgrade
• ATLAS: Readying for the future
• 11. ATLAS Collaboration: Life and its Place in Society
• 11.1 ATLAS Collaboration today
• 11.2 ATLAS Weeks in the world and times for celebration
• 11.3 Reaching out and sharing: ATLAS education and outreach
• Concluding Remarks
• Further Readings
• Institutions of the ATLAS Collaboration and ATLAS Computing Centres
• Contributors.