USRA Summer 2017 Student Positions with the ATLAS Toronto Group

 

The University of Toronto ATLAS group has several summer student positions open to USRA recipients for summer 2017. The group comprises six faculty members: Krieger, Orr, Savard, Sinervo, Teuscher (based at CERN) and Trischuk.

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, in Geneva Switzerland, has been collecting data at the very highest collision energies observed in the lab. The most exciting thing to emerge from this dataset was the unequivocal observation of a new particle at 125 GeV, with properties consistent with the Standard Model Higgs boson. We continue increasing the size of this dataset and analyzed it for insights and searching for discoveries. Summer students will be working with us in projects involving data analysis and in hardware projects related to upgrades of the ATLAS experiment. Perhaps something un-expected will emerge from the data-taking while you're looking at it this summer.

Project topics and potential supervisors include: