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DESY News: ATLAS Award for DESY scientist Nicholas Styles
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ATLAS Award for DESY scientist Nicholas Styles
For his outstanding contributions to the improvement of the particle detector ATLAS at the world's largest accelerator LHC in Geneva, DESY scientist Dr. Nicholas Styles has been awarded with one of this year's ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards.
DESY-Forscher Nicholas Styles
With the discovery of the Higgs particle in the LHC detectors ATLAS and CMS, particle physicists have already made history at the largest accelerator in the world. However, the exact characterization of the new particle and an intensive search of new physics beyond the standard model have yet to come. Important for both is a large amount of data in the proton-proton collisions at the LHC.
Therefore, the researchers are preparing a major upgrade of the detectors to a fivefold increase in the collision rate. This requires a new generation of central detector components, such as the silicon strip detector in ATLAS, not only exactly identifying an unprecedented flood of particles, but also being resistant to the high radiation rate due to the flying particles –conditions that no detector thus far has had to meet and that require new technological developments.
The ATLAS collaboration is already vigorously working on the technical implementation of this upgrade. Numerous issues have to be clarified, including the future detector geometry: How many layers of different types of detectors are at what position required to enable the best measurement? Which accuracy of the individual layers is optimal without driving up costs? And many more.
Nicholas Styles, from the ATLAS group at DESY, wrote essential software for the reconstruction and simulation of particle tracks and contributed significantly with detailed studies to the design of the planned detector upgrade of ATLAS, as outlined by the award committee.
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