Deputy Spokesperson of ATLAS during LHC Start-up and Early Physics

ATLAS实验是世界上最大的粒子物理实验，位于瑞士欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机（LHC）上。ATLAS是来自世界各地约2500名粒子物理学家的合作项目。未来两年的ATLAS运行对于我们所知的自然界最小粒子的物理学意义重大：LHC将探测到比以往任何时候都更高的能量和更小的距离，它的运行将在2009年夏天开始，继2008年的第一束光束之后。在2009-2011年期间，将观察到大量的碰撞，足以对各种可能的新物理过程敏感。对这些过程的观察将是多年来粒子物理学中最令人兴奋的发展之一。ATLAS由一名发言人和两名副手领导：这笔资金将在2009-2011年期间支持其中一名副发言人，英国物理学家，伯明翰大学的David Charlton教授。

The ATLAS experiment is the world's largest particle physics experiment, and is sited on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. ATLAS is a collaboration of a large number of particle physicists, around 2500, from all around the world. The coming two years of ATLAS operation will be of great importance to the physics of the smallest particles that we know in nature: the LHC will probe to higher energies and smaller distances than ever before, and the start of its operation will now be in the summer of 2009, following the first beams in 2008. During the period 2009-2011, substantial numbers of collisions will be observed, sufficient to be sensitive to a variety of possible new physics processes. The observation of such processes would be one of the most exciting developments in particle physics for many years. ATLAS is led by a spokesperson and two deputies: this funding is to support one of these deputy spokespersons, a UK physicist, Professor David Charlton from the University of Birmingham, during 2009-2011.