ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The ATLAS detector is searching for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS will learn about the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, unification of fundamental forces, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the Universe.
The USTC ATLAS group currently consists of 6 staffs, 1 postdoc, 7 PhD students and 6 master students. Our physics interest includes searches for Higgs and more “exotic” phenomena, such as R-parity violating sneutrinos, Gravitons, W’, Z’ and Technicolored mesons and measurements that provide precision tests of the Standard Model theory. The ATLAS experiment is currently taking data routinely. We contribute to detector operations, data preparations and studies of the physics object reconstructions and identifications.