344 - History and Development of ATLAS

omega tau science & engineering podcast

Guests: Peter Jenni Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Alexander Grote

ATLAS is one of the two general-purpose experiments at the LHC. It has been conceived, designed, and built over decades by hundreds of scientists and engineers from dozens of countries and hundreds of organizations. My guest, Peter Jenni, has been the head of the ATLAS collaboration for most of this time. In this episode we talk about science and engineering, but mostly about organizational aspects and the “community management” necessary to get such a magnificent machine off the ground.

Introduction Peter Jenni

00:02:55

Peter Jenni | LHC | CERN | Atlas | University of Bern | ETH Zürich | SLAC | Fabiola Gianotti | LEP | Intensity | electrons | positrons | protons

The Atlas Experiment Overview

00:18:40

solenoid magnet | magnetic field | right hand rule | electromagnetic calorimeter | the Atlas liquid Argon Calorimeter | Hadrons (Mesons and Baryons) | TileCal | Muons | CMS | Particle Collider | ALICE | LHCb | Bottom Quark | Standard Model | Weak interaction / intermediate vector bosons | UA1 | UA2 | SPS | Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron | Simon van der Meer | Carlo Rubbia | Dipole Magnet | SSC | Higgs Boson | Luminosity | Higgs Mechanism | Supersymmetry | WIMPs | Supersymmetric Dark Matter

Design Decisions in Atlas

01:39:39

Tracking Detector | Atlas Tracker | Decay | Decay length (Lecture Particle Decay Slide 9) | Superconductivity | Atlas Technical Design Report

Outlook

02:08:15

LS2 | HL-LHC | LHC Quench | European Strategy for Particle Physics | ILC