Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

(2008)

Authors:

G Aad, E Abat, B Abbott, J Abdallah, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, H Abramowicz, BS Acharya, DL Adams, TN Addy, C Adorisio, P Adragna, T Adye, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, H Ahmed, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Akesson, G Akimoto, Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, G Alimonti, J Alison, M Aliyev, PP Allport, Allwood-Spiers, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, J Alonso, Alviggi, K Amako

Abstract:

A detailed study is presented of the expected performance of the ATLAS detector. The reconstruction of tracks, leptons, photons, missing energy and jets is investigated, together with the performance of b-tagging and the trigger. The physics potential for a variety of interesting physics processes, within the Standard Model and beyond, is examined. The study comprises a series of notes based on simulations of the detector and physics processes, with particular emphasis given to the data expected from the first years of operation of the LHC at CERN.

Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

(2008)

Authors:

The ATLAS Collaboration, G Aad, E Abat, B Abbott, J Abdallah, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, H Abramowicz, BS Acharya, DL Adams, TN Addy, C Adorisio, P Adragna, T Adye, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, H Ahmed, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Akesson, G Akimoto, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, G Alimonti, J Alison, M Aliyev, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, J Alonso, MG Alviggi, K Amako, P Amaral, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, G Amoros, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, CF Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, M-L Andrieux, XS Anduaga, F Anghinolfi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, S Antonelli, B Antunovic, FA Anulli, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, JP Archambault, S Arfaoui, J-F Arguin, T Argyropoulos, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, C Arnault, A Artamonov, D Arutinov, M Asai, S Asai, S Ask, B Asman, D Asner, L Asquith, K Assamagan, A Astbury, A Astvatsatourov, T Atkinson, G Atoian, B Auerbach, E Auge, K Augsten, MA Aurousseau, N Austin, G Avolio, R Avramidou, A Axen, C Ay, G Azuelos, Y Azuma, MA Baak, G Baccaglioni, C Bacci, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, E Badescu, P Bagnaia, Y Bai, DC Bailey, JT Baines, OK Baker, F Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa, E Banas, S Banerjee, D Banfi, A Bangert, V Bansal, SP Baranov, S Baranov, A Barashkou, TB Barber, EL Barberio, D Barberis, MB Barbero, DY Bardin, T Barillari, M Barisonzi, T Barklow, NB Barlow, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, S Baron, A Baroncelli, AJ Barr, F Barreiro, J Barreiro Guimaraes da Costa, P Barrillon, R Bartoldus, D Bartsch, J Bastos, RL Bates, JR Batley, A Battaglia, M Battistin, F Bauer, M Bazalova, B Beare, PH Beauchemin, RB Beccherle, N Becerici, P Bechtle, GA Beck, HP Beck, M Beckingham, KH Becks, I Bedajanek, AJ Beddall, A Beddall, P Bednar, VA Bednyakov, C Bee, S Behar Harpaz, PK Behera, M Beimforde, C Belanger-Champagne, 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Nedden, V Zychacek

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager*

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 391:4 (2008) 1545-1558

Authors:

JTL Zwart, RW Barker, P Biddulph, D Bly, RC Boysen, AR Brown, C Clementson, M Crofts, TL Culverhouse, J Czeres, RJ Dace, ML Davies, R D'Alessandro, P Doherty, K Duggan, JA Ely, M Felvus, F Feroz, W Flynn, TMO Franzen, J Geisbüsch, R Génova-Santos, KJB Grainge, WF Grainger, D Hammett, RE Hills, MP Hobson, CM Holler, N Hurley-Walker, R Jilley, ME Jones, T Kaneko, R Kneissl, K Lancaster, AN Lasenby, PJ Marshall, F Newton, O Norris, I Northrop, DM Odell, G Petencin, JC Pober, GG Pooley, MW Pospieszalski, V Quy, C Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, RDE Saunders, AMM Scaife, J Schofield, PF Scott, C Shaw, TW Shimwell, H Smith, AC Taylor, DJ Titterington, M Velić, EM Waldram, S West, BA Wood, G Yassin

A novel design of a fibre-fed high resolution spectrograph for WFMOS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 7014 (2008)

Authors:

H Lee, GB Dalton, IAJ Tosh

Abstract:

We present a novel design of a fibre-fed high-resolution spectrograph (HRS hereafter) for WFMOS. WFMOS HRS is a multi-object spectrograph for studying the formation and evolution history of our Galaxy by measuring spectra of Galactic stars. In a 8m-class telescope, it aims to measure 1,500 stellar spectra simultaneously with spectral resolution between 25,000 and 40,000 in optical wavebands de.ned within 4000Å and 9000Å. For the HRS optical design, we have explored three disperser options : Volume Phase Holographic Grating (VPHGs), prism-immersed VPHG, and Echelle grating. Two camera designs have also been studied for the spectrograph camera optics, one tranmissive design and the other a Schmidt design. We also investigated a conjugate collimator design that allows two spectrographs to share a single grating so as to work as a single spectrograph.

A novel heterodyne interferometer for millimetre and sub-millimetre astronomy

Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, ISSTT 2008 (2008) 274-280

Authors:

PK Grimes, M Brock, CM Holler, K Jacobs, ME Jones, OG King, J Leech, AC Taylor, G Yassin

Abstract:

We describe a novel heterodyne interferometer currently under construction at Oxford. The instrument employs new techniques in heterodyne interferometry, with the aim of achieving very high brightness sensitivity in the millimetre band. It is a single-baseline tracking interferometer for operation in the frequency range 185-275 GHz with two 0.4m offset parabolic antennas separated by a 0.5 m baseline. Each antenna feeds an SIS mixer with a 2-20 GHz IF band, driven by a phase-switched LO source. The IF signals from the mixers are processed by a 2-20 GHz analogue complex correlator. The primary science goal of this instrument is to measure the spectrum of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in galaxy clusters. In particular we intend to measure the frequency of the S-Z null near 217 GHz, which allows the gas temperature of the cluster to be determined. Measuring the spectrum of the S-Z effect requires very high brightness sensitivity with moderate spatial and spectral resolution.