ATLAS
Faculty:
Post Docs:
- Igor Gorelev - igorelev@unm.edu - Research Associate Professor
- Martin Hoeferkamp - martin@phys.unm.edu - Research Engineer III
The ATLAS experiment at the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN will have at its heart a silicon pixel detector composed of 3 barrels and 2 sets of 5 disks. The difficult radiation environment, high channel count, and short time between beam crossings necessitate a variety of pixel design features that have not previously been used by any high energy physics experiment.
To permit consideration of a wide variety of design options and the most advanced design features possible, ATLAS (and UNM) are studying two rounds of prototype sensors, pre-production sensors, and a variety of special-purpose test structures before releasing a production design. The UNM group is the principal U.S. group involved in the sensor design and testing. UNM group members have designed a variety of custom test structures as well as the First Prototypes.
The ATLAS experiment is one component of the nuclear, particle and particle-astrophysics programs of the New Mexico Center for Particle Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.