> ATLAS researchers go over final plan at SFU
ATLAS researchers go over final plan at SFU
June 13, 2008
More than 100 researchers from North and South America and Europe will meet at Simon Fraser University June 16 – 18 to discuss final preparations for the ATLAS project, which is slated to begin in earnest this fall.
The researchers’ discussions will focus on the ATLAS detector, housed at the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, including how to calibrate it and the methods used to extract the first results, and to confer on plans for how to manage data analysis.
“This is one of the last big working meetings for North Americans,” says SFU and TRIUMF physicist Mike Vetterli, who is the computing coordinator for ATLAS Canada and chair of the conference. “We plan to update everyone on the status of the detector and the computing, as well as the schedule for the first beam.”
The ATLAS project, dubbed the biggest physics experiment ever undertaken and involving hundreds of scientists worldwide, will shed new light on the fundamental components of matter and their interactions - science that will change our understanding of the universe.
The ATLAS spectrometer will be capable of detecting particles emerging from collisions of protons at a higher energy than ever achieved in the laboratory.
The experiment is expected to begin in October. Scientists are eagerly anticipating the moment when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will begin to smash particles into each other.
From the LHC’s 27-kilometer underground ring, a flood of data will rush to 10 ATLAS (Tier 1) centres around the world - one of them, at Vancouver’s TRIUMF facility.
Results of the first stage of the analysis at these centres will be sent to university (Tier 2) centres where physicists will extract the groundbreaking results from the experiment. SFU will host one of the five Tier-2 centres in Canada.
Scientists will attend a tutorial session at the conference that will involve working with simulated data to learn how to use the computing grid and ATLAS analysis tools for extraction of results.
Tours of TRIUMF and the laboratory’s tier-1 data centre will take place on June 19.
The researchers’ discussions will focus on the ATLAS detector, housed at the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, including how to calibrate it and the methods used to extract the first results, and to confer on plans for how to manage data analysis.
“This is one of the last big working meetings for North Americans,” says SFU and TRIUMF physicist Mike Vetterli, who is the computing coordinator for ATLAS Canada and chair of the conference. “We plan to update everyone on the status of the detector and the computing, as well as the schedule for the first beam.”
The ATLAS project, dubbed the biggest physics experiment ever undertaken and involving hundreds of scientists worldwide, will shed new light on the fundamental components of matter and their interactions - science that will change our understanding of the universe.
The ATLAS spectrometer will be capable of detecting particles emerging from collisions of protons at a higher energy than ever achieved in the laboratory.
The experiment is expected to begin in October. Scientists are eagerly anticipating the moment when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will begin to smash particles into each other.
From the LHC’s 27-kilometer underground ring, a flood of data will rush to 10 ATLAS (Tier 1) centres around the world - one of them, at Vancouver’s TRIUMF facility.
Results of the first stage of the analysis at these centres will be sent to university (Tier 2) centres where physicists will extract the groundbreaking results from the experiment. SFU will host one of the five Tier-2 centres in Canada.
Scientists will attend a tutorial session at the conference that will involve working with simulated data to learn how to use the computing grid and ATLAS analysis tools for extraction of results.
Tours of TRIUMF and the laboratory’s tier-1 data centre will take place on June 19.