1st ATLAS UK Physics Meeting

The first ATLAS UK Physics meeting was be held at Birmingham on Wednesday23rd July 1997.

The following people attended:
Anastasios Belias (RHBNC), Evelina Bouhova (Sheff), Daniel Buira-Clark(Oxf), Craig Buttar (Sheff), Jon Butterworth (UCL), David Candlin (Edin),Paul Coe (Oxf), Adam Connors (Birm), Ian Duerdoth (Manc), Steve Fisher(RAL), Adrian Fox-Murphy (Oxf), Simon George (RHBNC), Anish Grewal (Oxf),Stephen Hillier (Birm), Todd Huffman (Oxf), Neil Jackson (Liv), Roger Jones(Lanc), Ian Kenyon (Birm), Barry King (Liv), Ian Knowles (Edin), KennethLane (Boston/UCL), Mark Lehts (Sheff), Steve Lloyd (QMW), Steve Maxfield(Liv), Tony Moreton (Liv), Andrew Pickford (Glas), Stan Thompson (Glas),Peter Watkins (Birm), John Wilson (Birm)

Introduction - Steve Lloyd

Steve gave a brief introduction to the background to these meetings andthe rather ill-defined relationship between physics, detector performanceand software development in UK ATLAS. He also presented a summary of therepliesto his questionnaire.

ATLAS Software in the UK - John Baines (presented by Steve Fisher)

Steve Fisher presented John's slides describing the ATLAS software currentlyavailable in the UK.

The slides are available here.

Future ATLAS Software - David Candlin

David described the new (not future!) ATLAS Software.

The slides are available here.

Non-supersymmetric extensions to the SM - Ken Lane

Ken have his heretical talk on technicolour that he gave at the Warsawconference.

The writeup of Ken's Warsaw talk is availablehere.

Monte Carlo event generators - Ian Knowles

Ian described the Monte Carlo generators currently available for ATLASphysics simulations.

The slides are available here.

Physics in the 2nd level trigger - Simon George

Simon gave a brief overview of the ATLAS trigger/DAQ system and a shortpresentation of part of the LVL2 trigger section in the ID TDR.

The slides are available here.

b-tagging with impact parameters - Andy Pickford

Andy described his studies so far.

The slides are available here:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14.

Introduction to SUSY at ATLAS - Anish Grewal

Anish gave an itroduction to SUSY and SUGRA at ATLAS.

The slides are available here:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22.

Future plans - Steve Lloyd

It was agreed that the next meeting be at Manchester on Wednesday 12thNovember starting at 1.30pm.

Last updated on 21 July 1997, bySteveLloyd