ATLAS Silicon IFIC Group
The group participates in the operation and physics exploitation of the ATLAS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), being at the same time deeply involved in the R&D silicon detector developments towards the High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC.
The group consists of 7 seniors, 3 postdocs, 6 PhD students, with the support of several engineers and technicians from the engineering departments. It has a close collaboration with the IFIC theory department for what concerns physics analysis and with the Barcelona Institute of Microelectronics CNM for what concerns silicon R&D.
The group played a major role in the construction of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) and has important responsibilities in its current operation, the Inner Detector alignment and R&D for silicon tracking devices. It is also fully engaged in data analyses, with a main interest in top quark physics and searches for new physics phenomena including supersymmetry.
Top Physics
Top quark physics forms a core part of the ATLAS physics program at the LHC. Its large mass implies a large coupling to the Higgs boson ...
SUSY Physics
Super-Symmetry (SUSY) is a theoretical framework providing answers in an elegant manner to several open issues of the Standard Model (SM) ...
Alignment
The performance of ATLAS depends on the accurate determination of the alignment parameters of the tracking sensors ...
