II. Institute of Physics Particle Physics JProf. Theory Prof.A.Quadt projects: Tevatron LHC Dr.C.Hensel young invest. group projects: LHC Prof.M.Klute projects: LHC Prof.A.Frey projects: ILC & Super-B Prof.NN projects: terascale LHC & ILC Detector development * High Level Trigger (algorithms) * ATLAS pixel detector * Grid Computing (WLCG, GoeGrid) * (accelerator physics) Data analysis * top-quark physics * search for Higgs boson * search for supersymmetry (dark matter candidates) Detector dev. * DEPFET pixel det. * e+e- physics at ILC * CP-violat. at super-B Particle physics phenomenology at the terascale
Group established in October 2006, still setting up and growing... 4 Profs 1 Young Investigator Group (Emmy-Noether) 7-12 Post-Docs 3-10 PhD students 8-15 Diploma students Funding: - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - transregional research center “ATLAS”, federal ministry of science (BMBF-FSP 101) - Helmholz Alliance “Physics at the Terascale” (HA-101) - German national science foundation (DFG) - D-GRID initiative - ministry of science and education in Lower Saxony - Volkswagen Foundation
Large Hadron Collider - LHC LHC dipole LHC quadrupole ATLAS CMS Large Hadron Collider: Proton-Proton Collider Proton-Proton Collider ⇨ 2 separate beampipes ⇨ 2 separate beampipes 10 fb -1 per year 10 fb -1 per year High energy: s = 14 TeV High energy: s = 14 TeV 40 Mio. Collisions per second 40 Mio. Collisions per second Start: 10.September 2008 Start: 10.September experiments: 4 experiments: ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHC-B ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHC-B
ATLAS Experiment