Deputy Spokesperson of ATLAS during 2011-2013

ATLAS实验是世界上最大的粒子对撞机实验，位于瑞士欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机(LHC)上。来自38个国家的科学家和工程师聚集在一起，建立、操作和分析来自ATLAS仪器的数据。合作的总人数约为2900名科学作者。第一次质子碰撞--氢原子核--是在2009年底产生的，但这只是长达20年的测量计划和--我们预计--发现的开始。ATLAS的实验已经在比以往任何时候都更小的尺度上探索物理，相当于回到大爆炸后零点几秒发生的物理过程。随着现在和未来一两年碰撞数据的收集，完全有可能发现新的物理现象，给我们对物质最基本组成部分的物理学以及它们之间的作用力的理解带来革命性的变化。ATLAS的合作由一位发言人和两名副手领导：这笔资金将在2011-2013年期间支持两名副手中的一名--伯明翰大学的大卫·查尔顿教授。

The ATLAS experiment is the world's largest experiment at a particle collider, and is sited on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. Scientists and engineers from thirty-eight countries have come together to build, operate and analyse the data from the ATLAS apparatus. In total the Collaboration numbers some 2900 scientific authors. The first collisions of protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, were produced in late 2009, but these were just the start of a twenty-year long programme of measurements and - we anticipate - discoveries. Already the ATLAS experiment is probing physics on smaller scales than ever before, equivalent to probing back to the physics processes that happened a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. It is entirely possible, with the collision data being collected now and in the next year or two, that new physical phenomena will be discovered, bringing revolutionary changes to our understanding of the physics of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces between them. The ATLAS Collaboration is led by a spokesperson with two deputies: this funding is to support one of the two deputies, Prof David Charlton from the University of Birmingham, during 2011-2013.