PhD project: The ATLAS experiment

Supervisor: Prof. Mario Campanelli

The ATLAS Roman Pot detector is located at a distance of about 200 meters from the interaction point, and using the LHC magnets as a gigantic spectrometer, measures protons that remain intact after the collision, only losing a small fraction of their momentum. This detector has operated in 2017, and allowed the recent first publication of lepton production from photon-photon collisions at the LHC. In Run3 the detector will be equipped by a new Time-of-Flight device, that will allow it to trigger on the coincidence between the Roman Pot protons and the central system. The project will involve commissioning the new detector and understanding its properties, developing some machine-learning based reconstruction code, and analysing the production of central jets in association with forward protons. More details on ATLAS at UCL can be found here.

For more details please contact m.campanelli at ucl.ac.uk