ATLAS Experiment
Control room ATLAS building
M. Barnett – February 2008 1 Final piece of ATLAS lowered last Friday (the second small muon wheel)
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Still to be done
Connecting:
Cables, Fibers, Cryogenics
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Celebrations
M. Barnett – February 2008 5 News Coverage
News media are flooding CERN well in advance of startup
"Particle physics is the unbelievable in pursuit of the unimaginable. To pinpoint the smallest fragments of the universe you have to build the biggest machine in the world. To recreate the first millionths of a second of creation you have to focus energy on an awesome scale." The Guardian
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Three full pages in New York Times
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M. Barnett – February 2008 8 National Geographic Magazine
M. Barnett – February 2008 9 National Geographic Magazine
M. Barnett – February 2008 10 National Geographic Magazine
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And on television (shortened version)
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An ATLAS expert explains the Higgs evidence to a layperson.
M. Barnett – February 2008 24 US-LHC Student Journalism Program
April 2-7, 2008 (overlapping Open Days)
Six teams of high school students (3 students/1 teacher) are going to CERN to report on the LHC startup. They will have all major expenses paid.
The student/teacher teams will learn about the LHC, ATLAS and CMS experiments by interviewing physicists and engineers and seeing the experiments up close.
Teams will act as news reporters to students in their home communities and across the US. These high school journalists will share the excitement with many others via blogs, websites, etc. Each will prepare a video about their visit and the LHC.
M. Barnett – February 2008 25 Large Hadron Collider Numbers
The biggest most sophisticated detectors ever built
Recording the debris from 600 million proton collisions per second requires building gargantuan devices that measure particles with 0.001 cm precision.
The most extensive computer system in the world
Analyzing the data requires tens of thousands of computers around the world using the Grid.
M. Barnett – February 2008 26 ATLAS Experiment Numbers
Weight of ATLAS detector A hundred 747 jets (empty)
Size of ATLAS detector About half the Notre Dame Cathedral
Superconducting wire in magnets Is 122 km (76 miles) long,
plus 3000 km (1865 miles) of ordinary cables elsewhere.
Data recorded each year 3200 terabytes, equivalent to 7 km (4 miles) of CDROMs stacked on top of each other.
Electronic channels About 100 million
M. Barnett – February 2008 27 Who builds and operates ATLAS?
2100 scientists from 167 universities and labs in 37 countries
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M. Barnett – February 2008 29 Microscopic Black Hole Event
M. Barnett – February 2008 30 Raising the Alarm
Google News – Just look under: “CERN black hole”
M. Barnett – February 2008 31 Are Microscopic Black Holes Dangerous?
Cosmic rays are continuously bombarding Earth's atmosphere with far more energy than protons will have at the LHC, so cosmic rays would produce everything LHC can produce.
They have done so throughout the 4.5 billion years of the Earth's existence, and the Earth is still here!
The LHC just lets us see these processes in the lab (though at a much lower energy than some cosmic rays).
M. Barnett – February 2008 32 − + μ μ
How a Higgs boson event might look in ATLAS
H → Z Z e− e+ Z → e− e+ Z → μ− μ+
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New Higgs Event Images
M. Barnett – February 2008 34 New Higgs Event Images
M. Barnett – February 2008 35 Three Users organizations are going to DC
March 12-14
¾Legislative: Capitol Hill
¾Executive: OMB/OSTP
¾Agencies: DOE and NSF
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M. Barnett – February 2008 38 Going to DC
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LHC Physics in Art and Literature
M. Barnett – February 2008 40 Extra Dimensions in Art
M. Barnett – February 2008 41 Extra Dimensions in Art
in art
SALVADOR DALI – TO RESEARCH OF THE 4TH DIMENSION
(Dora Maar series) M. Barnett – February 2008 42 Extra Dimensions in Literature
in literature
Narnia
M. Barnett – February 2008 43 http://atlas.ch title
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M. Barnett – February 2008 45 ATLAS Multimedia
M. Barnett – February 2008 46 ATLAS on YouTube
YouTube.com/TheATLASExperiment
18 videos now.
Most viewed has 11,000 viewings.
Most have 4.5 of 5 stars ratings
M. Barnett – February 2008 47 Hits on ATLAS Website
Year Hits 1999 112,694 +++ 2000 183,669 +++++ 2001 287,992 ++++++++ 2002 390,541 ++++++++++ 2003 505,549 +++++++++++++ 2004 519,731 +++++++++++++ 2005 579,186 +++++++++++++++ 2006 911,122 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2007 1,263,358 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
M. Barnett – February 2008 48 LHC Schedule
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M. Barnett – February 2008 50 LHC Commissioning
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M. Barnett – February 2008 52 LHC Commissioning
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Later stage
M. Barnett – February 2008 55 450 GeV Collisions?
Will be provided for a limited period only (2/3 shifts, maximum a weekend) during the commissioning for 7 TeV
Common view of the experiments: such a run is not required by the experiments.
However, collisions at 900 GeV would be useful, mostly for time alignment. A short period with such beam conditions is therefore interesting, provided these beam conditions are safe (no compromise on machine & experiment protection) and stable beam conditions declared.
The experiments would not require their magnets to be ON for this short 900 GeV run.
M. Barnett – February 2008 56 Maximum Energy ?
The general approach is that they only drop from 7 TeV if there is a problem with a magnet (could be a weak dipole or quad causing problems as push toward11,700 A).
There are limited gains for machine protection by dropping to 6 TeV, for example. (Factor of two reduction in quench level for an energy reduction of 10% )
Operational procedures will allow to drop from 7 TeV should they need to.
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M. Barnett – February 2008 58 LHC Commissioning
All the 182 commissionable SC circuits of S45 were tested A very important first milestone is now achieved Sector45 is commissioned at 5.3TeV with the efforts of many high qualified people in a tough but very friendly environment and now… …let’s continue: Sector56 is at 4K
M. Barnett – February 2008 59 ATLAS Critical Path items
Pixel Detector – Cables done, Fibers and Cryogenics remain
Tile Calorimeter – drawer refurbishment
Liquid Argon Cal – Front end boards
Magnet system tests
Similar issues in CMS
M. Barnett – February 2008 60 From M Kotamaki Critical Path (to Closing of Beam Pipe)
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Finish EO TGC services TGC services JF Close EBA, wheel Side A JD-A and Side A ECT-A SW-A services Small Wheel A Wheel Small LUCID
Barrel Calo A electronics repair
Pixel A connection & testing closing Barrel Full Magnet tests Barrel T-C hea Pixel C connection & testing closing
Barrel Calo C electronics
repair ID to Calo & access No
SW-C services pipe closed Beam
Close EBC, JD-C LUCID Side C and ECT-A Side C TGC Finish EO TGC services JF
services C Wheel Small wheel
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Compared to design conditions
• Beam energy likely below 7 TeV. – 6 TeV? – 6.5 TeV? • Fewer protons per bunch • Many fewer bunches • Head-on collisions
M. Barnett – February 2008 62 Definitions and Luminosity
Design Luminosity L: “Initial” L = 2×1033 cm−2 s−1 34 −2 −1 After three years L = 10 cm s femto = 10−15 pico = 10−12 Assume nano = 10−9 Luminosity L = 1033 cm−2 s−1 1 barn = 10−24 cm2 1 year = 3×107 s (but not all useable)
1033 x 10−24 → 10 fb−1 y−1 (if year = 1×107 s)
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Assuming L = 1033 cm−2 s−1 1 year → 10 fb−1 1 month → 1 fb−1
1 week → 0.2 fb−1 = 200 pb−1
Initial 2008 run
Assuming L = 1031 cm−2 s−1 3 months → 0.03 fb−1 = 30 pb−1
but this is a guess.
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The First Years? 2007→ 2008
~ 3 1028 ~ 2 1031 ~ 1 1032 A slide I made in 2005. ~ 4 1032 2008 ~ 2 1033 Works well if you add ~ 7 1032 on one year
~ 2 1033
~ 5 1033 2009
~ 5 1033 2010
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2011 M. Barnett – February 2008 66 2008 Integrated Luminosity?
• Very hard to estimate.
• Roughly 30 pb-1 • What physics can be done? 108 events for 30 pb−1 These rates should be multiplied by branching 105 events ratios and efficiencies. for 30 pb−1
100 events for 30 pb−1
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M. Barnett – February 2008 67 Some Rates for year 1 and year 2
30 pb-1 (pilot run) 300 pb-1 (year 2?) Channel # of Events # of Events
W → µ ν 200,000 2,000,000
Z → µµ 30,000 300,000
t tbar → µ + X 2400 24,000
QCD jets PT>150 GeV 30,000 (for 10% of 300,000 (for 10% of trigger bandwidth) trigger bandwidth) Minimum bias Trigger limited
gluino-gluino, M~ 1TeV 30-300 300-3000
Taken from table in hep-ph/0504221 M. Barnett – February 2008 68 The Cynic’s View
Three slides from Greg Landsberg (Brown University) who is in D0 and CMS experiments
M. Barnett – February 2008 69 Electron clusters
M. Barnett – February 2008 70 Electron clusters
M. Barnett – February 2008 71 The Discovery of SUSY
G. Landsberg
M. Barnett – February 2008 72 title ATLAS news for the public
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M. Barnett – February 2008 78 The ATLAS Detector
M. Barnett – February 2008 79 The ATLAS Inner Detector
M. Barnett – February 2008 80 The ATLAS Inner Detector
M. Barnett – February 2008 81 New Scroll Pens
M. Barnett – February 2008 82 Student Event Analysis (AMELIA)
Interactive event analysis for students and public
ATLAS Multimedia Educational Lab for Interactive Analysis
M. Barnett – February 2008 83 Student Event Analysis (AMELIA)
Interactive event analysis for students and public
ATLAS Multimedia Educational Lab for Interactive Analysis
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The End
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