RHUL Particle Physics Rolling Grant

实验粒子物理学在物质的最小粒子，夸克和轻子以及它们之间的作用力的水平上解决了一些关于宇宙结构和行为的基本问题。在这个项目中，我们正在为欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机上的ATLAS项目的准备工作做出贡献，该项目将于2009年开始获取数据。我们已经建造和调试了电子系统和驱动它们的软件。从2009年起，我们将在获得数据后进行分析。特别是，我们将在数据中寻找希格斯玻色子存在的证据，希格斯玻色子是目前粒子物理学标准模型中缺失的关键元素之一，以及超对称粒子和其他奇异现象，预计会存在。我们还计划更好地了解顶夸克的性质和质子的结构。

Experimental particle physics addresses some of the fundamental questions about the structure and behaviour of the Universe at the level of the smallest particles of matter, the quarks and the leptons, and the forces acting between them. In this project we are contributing to the preparation of the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that will begin taking data in 2009. We have constructed and commissioned electronic systems and the software that drives them. From 2009 onwards we will be analysing the data as it becomes available. In particular we will be searching the data for evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson, one of the key missing elements of the Standard Model of particle physics at present, and for supersymmetric particles and other exotic phenomena, that are expected to exist. We are also planning to understand better the properties of the top quark and the structure of the proton.