First results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
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First results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
W. Verkerke
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
1. Particle Physics – Theory and Experiment2. Construction and preparation activities3. First results from 2009 run4. Physics perspectives for 2010 and beyond
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High Energy Physics Intro – Theory• Aim to describe all matter and forces in terms of
fundamental particles and interactions– Working model: ‘the Standard Model’
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
Quantum Field TheoryLagrangian =
Particles
Interactions
‘Feynman rules’
Perturbation Theory
Constituentsof ordinary matter
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The standard model has many open issues• Gravity is not part of Standard Model
– Unification of Gravity and SM physics String Theory• Requires existence of Higgs Boson But not seen so far
– Mechanism to generate particle masses through ‘Higgs mechanism’ • Other open questions
– Why are quark masses so different?– Why does matter dominate
over anti-matter?– What are the constituents of
Dark Matter?• Several reasons to believe that
they may be interesting physicsphenomena at energy scales of 1 TeV– SM Theory without Higgs breaks down around this energy– Many extensions of the SM predict new phenomena on this scale
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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Experimental particle physics • Scattering experiment = Fundamental concept to most
experiments in the past 100 year:
1909 Rutherford scattering: a particles on targetE = ~1 MeV
1947 Cosmic ray on target: discovery of KS mesonE = ~100 MeV
1954 First circular proton acceleratorsE = 6000 MeV
1989 Large Electron-Positron collider E = 200.000 MeV
2009 Large Hadron collider E = 14.000.000 MeV
Higgs boson?
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Particle Physic today – Large Machines
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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The Large Hadron collider
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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High Energy Physics intro -- Experiment
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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The ATLAS experiment – Overview
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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The ATLAS experiment – Overview
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
44 m
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The ATLAS experiment – Overview
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Measure p of charged particlesSilicon & gas based tracking
detectors in B field
Measure E of all particlesCalorimeters convert absorbed
energy in light
Measure p of muonsTracking
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Commissioning ATLAS – Plan of work
• Construction
• Cosmic ray data taking – Understanding and Calibrating detector
• Low E Collision data – Understanding and Calibrating detector– Observing known physics
• High E Collision data – Observing known (and new?) physics
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199x - 2008
2008 - 2009
end of 2009
2010 onwards
Focusof thispresentation
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The ATLAS experiments – Cosmics commissioning• In absence of beam, can test particle detection
performance using cosmic particles (25 Hz 500 Mevt)
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The ATLAS experiment – Results from 2009 run• LHC time line, starting at moment of first injection
– Start of circulation of both beams (Day 1 - Nov 20 18.15 / 22.15)– Collisions at energy of 900 GeV (Day 4 - Nov 23)– Collisions at energy of 2.36 TeV (Day 24 - Dec 13)– Winter shutdown (Dec 16)
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The ATLAS experiment – Results from 2009 run
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The ATLAS experiment – Results from 2009 run
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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Results from 2009 run – Basic detector performance
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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Results from 2009 run – Medium Energy Physics
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KSp+p-
p0gg
(Tracking)
(Calorimeter)
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Results from 2009 run – High Energy Physics• Properties of pp collisions
at 900 GeV beam energy• Formation of particle jets
– Distribution in transverse E– Distribution in azim. angle
• Compare with simulation– Physics sim. + detector sim.
Transverse energy
azim. angle (h=-log(tan q/2))
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Challenges and activities for next year(s)• Higher beam energy : (0.9/2.36) 7 10 TeV
• Higher intensity (all of 2009 data = 1 second of data at design intensity)– High performance preselection of events will be very important
• Computational challenges in dealing with data volume
• Physics analysis on high energy data– Understand what known physics processed look like at this energy– Start looking for events that don’t look like SM (known physics)
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
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GRID computing • Computing facilities distributed
around the world– 10 large ‘Tier-1’ centers
(centralized reconstructedand simulation)
– O(50) smaller Tier-2 centers(physics analysis and simulation)
– Many more small Tier-3 centers• Connection and organization
through GRID technology– ‘World-wide batch system’– ‘World-wide file catalogue’
• Current cumulative capacity– 100.000 CPUS available– Storage space: 10 Pb
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Exercising data distribution
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF
Current situation• Event count low, • But event size 100x final size
(data reduction disabled)Can already exercise data management system with realistic data volumes
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Summary & Outlook
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