Mastering Muons at the Weizmann Institute of Science

The proposed research project while at the Weizmann Institute of Science will have the main goal of contributing to the upgrade of the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS experiment is a multipurpose particle detector at the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In particular, a very important part of the ATLAS detector, the New Muon Small Wheel (NSW), needs to be installed in order to cope with the forthcoming LHC upgrade to faster data-taking rates. Without the NSW, the LHC would need to throw away invaluable data, or reduce the rate at which it collects data; both of these options are extremely undesirable from a physics standpoint. The first step in this effort is understanding the detector technology at play in the NSW, so-called small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC). While at the Weizmann Institute of Science, I will analyze test beam data from sTGC detectors. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Oliver Stelzer-Chilton

Student:

Partner:

Weizmann Institute of Science

Discipline:

Physics

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University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award