{"id":90915,"date":"2019-05-17T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/exploring-the-scientific-potential-of-the-atlas-experiment-at-the-high-luminosity-lhc"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:02:38","slug":"exploring-the-scientific-potential-of-the-atlas-experiment-at-the-high-luminosity-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/exploring-the-scientific-potential-of-the-atlas-experiment-at-the-high-luminosity-lhc","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the scientific potential of the ATLAS Experiment at the High-Luminosity LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-the-scientific-potential-of-the-atlas-experiment-at-the-high-luminosity-lhc2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is scheduled to begin colliding protons in 2026. This major improvement to CERN\u2019s flagship accelerator will increase the total number of collisions in the ATLAS experiment by a factor of 10. To cope with this increase, ATLAS is preparing a complex series of upgrades including the installation of new detectors using state-of-the-art technology, the replacement of aging electronics, and the upgrade of its trigger and data acquisition system.<\/p>\n<p>What discovery opportunities will be in reach for ATLAS with the HL-LHC upgrade? How precisely will physicists be able to measure properties of the Higgs boson? How deeply will they be able to probe Standard Model processes for signs of new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physics<\/a>? The ATLAS Collaboration has carried out and released dozens of studies to answer these questions\u2014the results of which have been valuable input to discussions<b> <\/b>held this week at the <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanstrategyupdate.web.cern.ch\/welcome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics<\/a>, in Granada, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudying the discovery potential of the HL-LHC was a fascinating task associated with the ATLAS upgrades,\u201d says Simone Pagan Griso, ATLAS Upgrade Physics Group co-convener. \u201cThe results are informative not only to the ATLAS Collaboration but to the entire global <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particle+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particle-physics<\/a> community, as they reappraise the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of us.\u201d Indeed, these studies set important benchmarks for forthcoming generations of particle physics experiments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-exploring-scientific-potential-atlas-high-luminosity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is scheduled to begin colliding protons in 2026. This major improvement to CERN\u2019s flagship accelerator will increase the total number of collisions in the ATLAS experiment by a factor of 10. To cope with this increase, ATLAS is preparing a complex series of upgrades including the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}