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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Atlas Home page</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style2 { font-size: x-large; color: #00FFFF; } .style3 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 64px; color: #FF0000; } .style6 { color: #CCCCCC; font-size: 18px; } .style10 {font-size: 18px} .style11 {color: #CCCCCC} .style12 { color: #FF0000; font-size: 24px; } .style13 {color: #CCCCCC; font-size: 16px; } .style14 {color: #FF0000; font-size: 18px; } body { background-image: url("graphics/Theme/background.jpg"); } a:link { color: #FF0000; } a:visited { color: #00CCFF; } .style15 {font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; } a:hover { color: #0000FF; } a:active { color: #00FF00; } .style16 { color: #FF0000; font-weight: bold; } --> </style> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <th width="260" scope="col"><div align="left"><img src="graphics/UA_horiz_color_250.gif" width="250" height="100"></div></th> <th scope="col"><table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <th colspan="2" scope="col"><div align="center"><span class="style2">Experimental Elementary Particle Physics</span></div></th> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"><span class="style3">The Atlas Project</span> </div></td> <td><div align="right"><img src="graphics/atlas.gif" width="200"></div></td> </tr> </table></th> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="10"> <tr> <td width="146" align="center" valign="top"><p><img src="graphics/Theme/Banner1.gif" width="146" height="60"></p> <p><br> <a href="Personnel.html" class="style15"><strong>Personnel</strong></a><br> <a href="Personnel.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="Personnel.html"> <br> <a href="FunResources.html" class="style15"><strong>Fun Resources</strong></a><br> <a href="FunResources.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="FunResources.html"> <br> <a href="PublicOutreach.html" class="style15"><strong>Public Outreach</strong></a><br> <a href="PublicOutreach.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="PublicOutreach.html"> <br> </a><a href="atlas_talks/index.html" class="style15">Atlas Talks</a><br> <a href="atlas_talks/index.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="atlas_talks/index.html"> <br> </a><a href="fcal/pubnotes.html" class="style15">Publications</a><br> <a href="fcal/pubnotes.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="photos/index.html" class="style15"> <br> Photographs</a><br> <a href="photos/index.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="visitor/index.html" class="style15"> <br> Visitor<br> Information</a><br> <a href="visitor/index.html"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="Arizona_Atlas_Downloads/"> <br> <span class="style15"><strong>Arizona Atlas<br> Downloads </strong></span></a><br> <a href="Arizona_Atlas_Downloads/"><img src="graphics/Theme/btnnavver1.gif" width="125" height="25" border="0"></a><br> </p></td> <td ><table width="100%" border=6 cellpadding="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img height=108 alt=Particle src="images/particles.jpg" width=150 align=bottom></td> <td align="center"><h3 class="style12">Welcome to high energy research at the University of Arizona!</h3> <p><span class="style14">We are active in a number of experiments probing the frontiers of particle physics. </span></p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="style11"><span class="style10"> Our group joined the ATLAS collaboration at CERN in the spring of 1994 -- CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research , the world's largest particle physics center. It sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva Founded in 1954, the laboratory was one of Europe's first joint ventures and includes now 20 Member States.. </span></p> <p class="style6 style10"> CERN is a laboratory where scientists unite to study the building blocks of matter and the forces that hold them together. CERN exists primarily to provide them with the necessary tools. These are accelerators, which accelerate particles to almost the speed of light and <span class=emphasis>detectors</span> to make the particles visible.</p> <p class="style11 style10"> <span class="style11">We are playing a major role in the <a href="http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc" target="_blank"><strong>European Large Hadron Collider (LHC)</strong></a> at Geneva, Switzerland. <a href="http://www.physics.arizona.edu/physics2006/people.php?page=faculty&group=q" target="_blank"><strong>John Rutherfoord</strong></a> has led the effort to design a new calorimeter technology based on concentric tubes with very small liquid argon gaps to be used in the most forward regions of the <a href="http://atlasinfo.cern.ch/Atlas/Welcome.html" target="_blank"><strong>ATLAS</strong></a> detector. A prototype for this detector was tested at both CERN and Brookhaven test beams in 1995 and 1993. The most recent prototype was the FCAL 1 module 0 which was tested in the SPS beamline at CERN during June and July, 1998<br> </span></p> <table width="60%" border=6 align="center"> <tr> <td bgcolor=#FFFFFF><h2 align=center>The Forward Calorimeter Prototype 1993</h2> <div align="center"><a href="calproto93.html"><strong>Prototype 1993 Homepage</strong></a> </div></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="60%" border=6 align="center"> <tr> <td bgcolor=#FFFFFF><h2 align=center>The Forward Calorimeter Prototype 1995</h2> <div align="center"><a href="calproto95.html"><strong>Prototype 1995 Homepage</strong></a></div></td> </tr> </table> <br> <br> <table width="60%" border=6 align="center"> <tr> <td bgcolor=#FFFFFF><h2 align=center>The Forward Calorimeter Module 0 1998</h2> <div align="center"><a href="fcal/testbeam98.html"><strong>FCAL Testbeam 1998</strong></a></div></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="60%" border=6 align="center"> <tr> <td bgcolor=#FFFFFF><h2 align=center>The Forward Calorimeter 1 Construction<br> 1999-2002</h2> <div align="center"><a href="fcal/Fcal1.html"><strong>FCAL 1 Construction</strong></a></div></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="60%" border=6 align="center"> <tr> <td bgcolor=#FFFFFF><h2 align=center>Test Beam Work at IHEP<br> in Protvino 2006 - 2007</h2> <p align=center class="style16"><a href="fcal/FCALchik.html">FCALchik Description</a><br> <a href="photos/FCALchik%20Pictures/index.html">FCALchik Photographs<br> </a><a href="Arizona_Atlas_Downloads/FCALchik/"><strong>FCALchik Documentation<br> </strong></a></p> <div align="center"></div></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <div align="left"></div> <P align="center" class="style10 style11">We also have a number of <A href="connect.html"><strong>links</strong></A> to other high energy physics groups and resources around the world.</P> <P align="left" class="style13"><IMG height=29 src="graphics/telephone.gif" width=34 align=absMiddle> <span class="style11"><B>Experimental Elementary Particle Physics Departmental Telephone: (520) 626-9677</B></span></P> </body> </html>