ELPSCAMT · Early physics studies and calibration of the ATLAS muon trigger
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2007-04-01 → 2009-03-31
- EU contribution
- €80,000
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- EIF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - ELPSCAMT (Early Physics Studies and Calibration of the ATLAS Muon Trigger)
Our understanding of particle physics and the universe will be greatly enhanced through the study of high-energy particle collisions at the LHC. A significant part of of this study will be performed at ATLAS particle detector, which will detect the new particles produced by the LHC. In this project, we have contributed to improving the performance of the detector and its associated software, and developed algorithms for detecting new particles that have not yet been discovered and whose discovery will tell us much about the particle world. We have improved algorithms for detecting particles called muons, have developed algorithms for determining the position of each of the detector's components, performed a simulation study to prepare for the detailed study of particles called J/?, and are working on the detection of new, hypothesised particles that may only be detected by their decay, occurring several meters from their production point. Detection of such particles requires significant modification to the ATLAS software, which we are undertaking.
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Project objective
Operating at the highest energies of any particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will open new frontiers in the study of elementary particle physics. Analysis of the large data sets collected by the LHC¿s ATLAS detector will help to address longstanding gaps in the understanding of the universe at the particle physics level. A critical task during the first two- year data taking will be to calibrate the detector and improve its operation while beginning to conduct initial physics studies.I propose to use the early ATLAS data to measure the efficiency and background rate of the muon trigger, and employ di-muon final states to begin a physics analysis program in the areas of quantum chromodynamics, B physics, and physics beyond the standard model. This will be done through measurement of the polarization of prompt J/psi mesons, study of semi-muonic penguin B decays, and a search for heavy new particles decaying to a pair of muons.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · TEL AVIVCoordinatorIsrael
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