Hampton University and ATLAS
(Laboratory web sites)
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The ATLAS detector (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS), above, is one of two general-purpose detectors to be built for use at the CERN LHC. It is designed to explore a new energy region (14 TeV in the center of mass), and answer some of today's most important unanswered questions of fundamental physics. It will begin operating in the year 2007, and operate for 8-10 years before major changes. The detector will weigh about 7,000 tons, will be 120 feet long and about 70 feet in diameter.
We are working on the Inner Detector of ATLAS (the small orange object in the center of the diagram above). We are specifically working on the central (barrel) region of the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT). The picture below shows a view of the Inner Detector, with the TRT shown in yellow.
We are working on the barrel TRT in collaboration with
these institutions:
Indiana
University in ATLAS, Duke University in
ATLAS, the
University of Pennsylvania,
and Yale University.
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Supported by the National Science Foundation