ATLAS

ATLAS is a high-energy physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva. ATLAS is searching for new physics in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. Data from the ATLAS experiment will probe the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate.

The ATLAS Edinburgh group made substantial contributions to the direct discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July 2012. The discovered particle is named after Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh Peter Higgs. Peter Higgs and François Englert were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 8th October 2013, “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles”.

A simulated proton-proton collision within ATLAS

The ATLAS Edinburgh group is led by Prof. Phil Clark, Prof. Sinead Farrington, Dr Christos Leonidopoulos and Dr Victoria Martin.

Research interests

Our group, consisting of 27 researches, is contributing in the following areas:

• Higgs boson analyses - measuring the properties of the recently-discovered Higgs boson
• Exotic particle searches- searching for new particles not predicted by the Standard Model
• Forward pixel detector- developing and building an upgrade for the charged particle tracking detector
• Detector simulation - improving the tools used to simulate the performance of the ATLAS detector
• High-Level Trigger - improving the performance of the ATLAS trigger software
• Data management - storing and distributing the huge datasets produced by ATLAS

External Links

• Official page of the ATLAS experiment

PhD project opportunities in ATLAS

People in ATLAS

Telephone numbers in the list below are shown as UK numbers. Callers from outside the UK should remove the leading zero and use the UK country code (+44).

Name	Position	Contact details	Location	Photo
Academic staff
Philip Clark	Professor	p.j.clark [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 650 5231	JCMB 5417
Sinead Farrington	Professor	sinead.farrington [at] ed.ac.uk	JCMB
Christos Leonidopoulos	Reader	christos.leonidopoulos [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 650 6769	JCMB 5415
Victoria Martin	Professor	victoria.martin [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 651 7042	JCMB 5419
Research staff
Stephan Eisenhardt	Senior Research Fellow	s.eisenhardt [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 650 5300	JCMB 5418
Michele Faucci Giannelli	Senior Research Associate	michele.faucci.giannelli [at] ed.ac.uk	JCMB 5416
Ahmed Hasib	Postdoctoral Research Associate	hasib.ahmed [at] ed.ac.uk 07491 820558	JCMB 5416
Liza Mijovic	Postdoctoral Research Associate	liza.mijovic [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 650 6771	JCMB 5416
Andy Washbrook	Postdoctoral Research Associate	awashbro [at] ph.ed.ac.uk 0131 651 7689	JCMB 5412
Ben Wynne	Postdoctoral Research Associate	b.m.wynne [at] ed.ac.uk	JCMB 4311
Other staff
Bojan Masic	Senior Electronics Research Technician	Bojan.Masic [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 650 5225	JCMB 1206B
Jon Webster	Senior Research Group Technician	j.webster [at] ed.ac.uk 0131 650 5276	JCMB 5201
Research postgraduates
Thomas Carter	Postgraduate Student	s1872371 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk	JCMB
Matthew Heath	Postgraduate Student	m.heath [at] ed.ac.uk	JCMB 5301
Xanthe Hoad	Postgraduate Student	s1463804 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk 0131 650 5307	JCMB 5301
Andreas Sogaard	Postgraduate Student	andreas.sogaard [at] ed.ac.uk +45 25 85 19 98	JCMB 5301
Emily Takeva	Postgraduate Student	s1334010 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk	JCMB
Alan Taylor	Postgraduate Student	s1032916 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk	JCMB 5301
Neofytos Themistokleous	Postgraduate Student	nthemist [at] ed.ac.uk	JCMB 5301
Elena Villhauer	Postgraduate Student	s1668492 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk	JCMB 5301