Request for a DESY Summer Student in 2011
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   Name : Dr. Peter Vankov           email : peter.vankov@desy.de

   Tel  : +49 40 8998 1443           Room : Bldg. 3, 119

   DESY-Group/Experiment : ATLAS

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   Short description of the project the student should work on  :

   Simulations for the ATLAS SLHC Upgrade.

   ATLAS is the largest detector ever constructed at a particle collider.
   Placed 100 meters underground at CERN near Geneva, ATLAS explores the
   products of highly energetic protons collisions in search for new
   fundamental particles and interactions.
   One of the key ATLAS sub-systems is the Inner Detector (ID),
   designed to provide excellent charged particles momentum and vertex
   resolution.

   At phase 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) run, in 2020, the
   operating luminosity of the LHC will be increased significantly.
   This will imply an upgrade of all ATLAS subsystems. In particular,
   the ID  will be fully replaced with a tracker completely made of
   Silicon, having higher granularity and radiation hardness.
   The R&D process for the new ATLAS ID is now ongoing.
   Different geometrical layouts are simulated and their performance is
   studied under different operating conditions in search for the optimal
   detector architecture.

   The student will take an active part in the simulation of the
   SLHC version of the ATLAS Inner Detector. He/she will learn how a
   high-energy physics experiment is designed and optimized.

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   Physics / Computing/ Engineering  Content of the project :

   Physics(Computing)


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  Special Qualifications expected from the student ( Computing,...) :

  Knowing to work in a Linux operating environment would be helpful.

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  Other remarks :
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   Supervisor(s) during the project (19/07/11 - 8/09/11) :


   Name: Dr. Peter Vankov   Tel: +49 40 8998 1443   email : peter.vankov@desy.de