344 - History and Development of ATLAS

Guests: Peter Jenni (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jenni) Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Alexander Grote

ATLAS (atlas.cern) is one of the two general-purpose experiments at the LHC (home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-co…). 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 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jenni) | LHC (home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-co…) | CERN (home.cern) | Atlas (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment) | University of Bern (unibe.ch) | ETH Zürich (ethz.ch/en.html) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAC_National_Accelerato… | Fabiola Gianotti (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiola_Gianotti) | LEP (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron–Positron_…) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity_(physics) | electrons (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron) | positrons (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron) | protons (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton)

The Atlas Experiment Overview
00:18:40
solenoid magnet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid) | magnetic field (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field) | right hand rule (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule) | electromagnetic calorimeter (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter_(particle_ph…)) | the Atlas liquid Argon Calorimeter (iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1…) | Hadrons (Mesons and Baryons) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron) | TileCal (cds.cern.ch/record/2004868/files/ATL-TILECAL-P…) | Muons (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon) | CMS (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid) | Particle Collider (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator#Cir…) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_experiment | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHCb_experiment | Bottom Quark (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_quark) | Standard Model (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model) | Weak interaction / intermediate vector bosons (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UA1_experiment | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UA2_experiment | SPS (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Proton_Synchrotron) | Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Proton–Antiproton_…) | Simon van der Meer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_van_der_Meer) | Carlo Rubbia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rubbia) | Dipole Magnet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rubbia) | SSC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Co…) | Higgs Boson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity | Higgs Mechanism (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry | WIMPs (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massi…) | Supersymmetric Dark Matter (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0370…)

Design Decisions in Atlas
01:39:39
Tracking Detector (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(particle_physics)) | Atlas Tracker (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(particle_physics)) | Decay (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_decay) | Decay length (Lecture Particle Decay Slide 9) (www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~vjm/Lectures/ParticlePhysics…) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity | Atlas Technical Design Report (cds.cern.ch/record/391176/files/cer-0317330.pdf)

Outlook
02:08:15
LS2 (home.cern/tags/long-shutdown-2) | HL-LHC (home.cern/science/accelerators/high-luminosity…) | LHC Quench (home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-release…) | European Strategy for Particle Physics (europeanstrategy.cern) | ILC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Linear_Col…)