Columbia University group working on the ATLAS experiment

Columbia University has a large team of scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Members of the Columbia ATLAS team, photographed at CERN on October 8/2008. Pictured, from left to right, are: (back row) Evan Wulf, Kerstin Perez, Alex Penson, Heather Gray, and David Lopez Mateos; (middle row) John Parsons, Mark Cooke, Emlyn Hughes, Mike Tuts, Gustaaf Brooijmans, and Zach Marshall; (front row) Kathy Copic, Lidija Zivkovic, Seth Caughron, and Francesco Spano. Absent are Thomas Gadfort, Valeria Perez Reale, Dustin Urbaniec, Eric Williams, and Ning Zhou.


Faculty

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Gustaaf Brooijmans

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Emlyn Hughes

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John Parsons

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Mike Tuts


 Postdocs

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Kathy Copic

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Thomas Gadfort

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Valeria Perez Reale

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Francesco Spano

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Lidija Zivkovic


Graduate Students

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Seth Caughron

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Mark Cooke

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Heather Gray

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David Lopez Mateos

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Zach Marshall

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Alex Penson

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Kerstin Perez

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Dustin Urbaniec

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Eric Williams

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Evan Wulf

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Ning Zhou


LHC First Beam, September 10/2008

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Some members of the Columbia ATLAS team, on September 10/2008, as they prepared at CERN to participate in a videoconference with the Columbia Society for Physics Students to celebrate the first circulation of beam in the LHC.

Pictured (from left to right) are Francesco Spano, Heather Gray, John Parsons, David Lopez Mateos, Mark Cooke, Kathy Copic, Seth Caughron, Kerstin Perez, and Zach Marshall.

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Display of one of the first events recorded by ATLAS on September 10/2008!!!

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Prof. Parsons (middle) and ATLAS spokesperson Dr. Peter Jenni (right) participating in the celebrations of the first data taking in the ATLAS Control Room.


LHC Official Inauguration, October 21/2008

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U.S. Delegation to the LHC Inauguration and members of the ATLAS Collaboration in the LHC tunnel. From left to right: Michelangelo Mangano, CERN; NSF Director Arden Bement, Jr.; Moishe Pripstein, NSF; ATLAS Spokesperson Peter Jenni; Saul Gonzalez, DOE; US ATLAS Program Manager Michael Tuts; US ATLAS Deputy Program Manager Howard Gordon; Katherine Copic, Columbia University; BNL Director Sam Aronson; Undersecretary for Science, DOE Raymond Orbach; Head of the NSF Europe Office David Stonner; Dennis Kovar, DOE; Fermilab Director Pier Oddone; Otto Van Maerssen, U.S. Mission to the UN in Geneva; John Ellis, CERN; Alessandra Ciocio, LBNL.
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US LHC scientists attend a meeting with Dr. Arden Bement Jr., Director of the National Science Foundation. Columbia University was represented by Prof. John Parsons and graduate students Zach Marshall and Kerstin Perez.

  • ATLAS spokesperson-elect Fabiola Gianotti, Columbia Prof. Gustaaf Brooijmans and grad student Seth Caughron, and Columbia University Professor and Nobel Laureate T.D. Lee visiting the ATLAS cavern in August 2007.

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  • Information about the Front End Boards (FEBs) developed and produced by Columbia for the readout of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeters.

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    Photograph of one FEB, with many of its components labelled. A total of 1524 FEBs is required to read out the entire LAr calorimeter system.

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    Image of the SCA Controller, one of the custom radiation-tolerant integrated circuits developed for use on the FEB.

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    Installation of the first FEBs by (previous) Columbia postdocs S. Simion and D. Dannheim, Columbia Prof. J. Parsons, and technician A. Akimov.

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    A fully installed, cabled and operational crate of readout electronics (including 28 FEBs) on the electromagnetic barrel liquid argon calorimeter.

  • Graduate student Heather Gray (second from left) visiting the ALICE detector with Dr. Phil Mjwara, the Minister of Science and Technology of South Africa (fourth from left) in July 2007.

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  • Some photographs and information about the ATLAS detector.

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