UoA ATLAS/MDT HEP Group

Detectors

Detector Construction and Studies

C.W.Fabjan et al.,Hadron cascades in Iron and Uranium, Phys. Lett. B 60, 105 (1975) (6 authors)
J.Cobb et al., Transition Radiators for electron identification at the CERN ISR, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 140, 413 (1977) (11 authors)
C.W.Fabjan et al.,Iron Liquid-Argon and Uranium Liquid- Argon Calorimeters for Hadron Energy Measurement Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 141, 61 (1977) (6 authors)
J.H.Cobb et al., A large Liquid-Argon shower detector for an ISR experiment, Nucl. Instr.and Meth. 158, 93 (1979) (15 authors)
R. Batley et al., A highly segmented Nal (Tl) detector with Vacuum photodiode readout for measuring electromagnetic showers at the CERN ISR. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 242 (1985) 75 (40 authors)
E. Anassontzis et al., A large aperture spectrometer at Fermilab to study high mass dimuons Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A242, 215 (1986) (37 authors)
P.Adrianos et al., The calibration system for the DELPHI Barrel RICH detector Nucl.Instr.and Meth A294, 424 (1990) (12 authors)
E. Anassontzis et al., The Barrel Ring Imaging Cherenkov counter of DELPHI Nucl.Instr.and Meth.A323, 351 (1992) (81 authors)
L.Antoniazzi et al., The experiment 705 electromagnetic shower calorimeter Nucl.Inst.and Meth. A332, 57(1993) (47 authors)
W.Adam et al., The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector of DELPHI Nucl.Instr.and Meth. A343, 68 (1994) (132 authors)
W.Adam et al., Operational experience with the 4π ring imaging Cherenkov detector of DELPHI Nucl.Instr. and Meth.A360(1995)416 (132 authors)
E.Anassontzis et al., Light transmissivity in the NESTOR site Nucl. Instr.and Meth A349, 242 (1994) (5 authors)
E.Anassontzis et al., NESTOR: A Neutrino Particle Astrophysics Underwater Laboratory for the Mediterranean Proceedings Supplements: Nuclear Phy.B 35, 294 (1994) (41 authors)
W.Adam et al., Performance of the ring imaging Cherenkov detector of DELPHI Nucl.Instr.and Meth A 367, 233 (1995) (96 authors)
W.Adam et al., Curent achievements of the DELPHI ring imaging Cherenkov detector Nucl.Instr.and Meth A 371, 12 (1996) (95 authors)
P. Aarnio et al., The DELPHI detector at LEP. Nucl. Instr. and Meth .A 303 (1991) 233 (DELPHI collaboration ~520 authors)
F.Bauer et al., The first precision drift tube chambers for the ATLAS muon spectrometer. Nucl. Instr.and Meth., A 478 (2002) 153-7 (27 authors)
S.E. Anassontzis et al., The super fixed Target beauty facility at the SSC. Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 27, 352-357, 1992 (140 authors)
E.G. Anassontzis et al., The optical module for the NESTOR neutrino telescope. Nucl. Instrum. Meth, A479,439-455, 2002 (23 authors)
W. Adam et al., The Ring Imaging Detector of DELPHI. IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. 42, 499-504,1995 ( 98 authors)
E.G. Anassontzis et al., Status of NESTOR, a deep sea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean. Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 66,247-251, 1998 (41 authors)
E.G. Anassontzis et al., Status of NESTOR, a deep sea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean. Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 66,247-251, 1998 (41 authors)
J. Abdallah et al., The DELPHI Trigger System at LEP2 Energies Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A515 (2003) 782-799 (DELPHI collaboration ~350 authors)
T. Alexopoulos et al., Extensive performance studies for the ATLAS BIS-MDT precision muon chambers with cosmic rays. IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.50:2420-2425,2003 (20 authors)
C.Adorisio et al, System Test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the H8 beam at the CERN SPS, NIM Section A, 593, Issue 3, 232-254 (2008)
Aad G. et al The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider J. Instrum. 3 (2008) S08003 (2008), (2000 authors)
C.Adorisio et al ,Study of the ATLAS MDT Spectrometer using High Energy CERN combined Test beam Data NIM A 598 (2009) 400-415 (380 authors)
B.D.Levington et al, Performance of the ptotype module of the GlueX electromagnetic barrel calorimeter, NIM A 596, 327-337 (2008)

Recent Detector Development

Fassouliotis, D, Large size multi-gap resistive Micromegas for the ATLAS New Small Wheel at CERN, Proceedings of 40th International Conference on High Energy physics, PoS(ICHEP2020)", 2021, vol 390, p734
Development of large size Micromegas detector for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon system / Alexopoulos, T et al, 2010 - 5 p. - Published in : Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 617 (2010) 161-165 Presented at : 11th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors on Frontier Detectors For Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Italy, 24 - 30 May 2009, pp.161-165
The ATLAS muon Micromegas R&D project : towards large-size chambers for the s-LHC / Alexopoulos, T et al 2009 - Published in : J. Instrum. 4 (2009) P12015 IOP Open Access article Presented at : 1st International Conference on Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors, Kolympari, Crete, Greece, 12 - 15 Jun 2009, pp.P12015

Constuctuction of ATLAS MDT tubes

Celebrating 30,000 Tubes Wired
Tube Wiring Finished
Muon Drift Tubes (MDT) Construction
P.Ioannou et al (4 authors) “Results from the M-2 test beam using the ‘flower’ MDT’s”, ATLAS Note, ATL-MUON-96-128 (1996)
P.Ioannou et al (5 authors) “MDT BIS module 0 tube assembly”, ATLAS Note, ATLAS-MUON-2000-014 (2000)
D.Fassouliotis et al (7 authors) “Improvements/Experience derived from wiring 10% of BIS MDT’s”, ATLAS Note, ATLAS-MUON-2001-005 (2001)
D.Fassouliotis et al (5 authors) “A new compact MDT wire tension meter”, ATLAS Note, ATLAS-MUON-2001-003 (2001)
Fassouliotis, D.; Ioannou, P; Kourkoumelis, C.; “The Wiring of 30,000 MDT-BIS tubes at the University of Athens”, ATLAS-Public Note, ATL-MUON-PUB-2006-009 (2006)
F. Bauer et al (49 authors) “The first Precision Drift Tube Chamber for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer” ATLAS-MUON-2001-004 (paper presented in the Vienna VCI 2001 conference) published in Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 478 (2002) 153-7
Alexopoulos T. et al (20 authors) “Extensive Performance Studies for the ATLAS BIS-MDT Precision Muon Chambers with cosmic rays”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 50, 2420, December 2003
Beretta M. et al (18 authors), “MDT Commissioning Procedures Guidelines for Certifying RFI Chambers”, ATLAS Note, ATL-MUON-2004-022 (2004)
The Greek contribution to the ATLAS muon spectrometer and the physics studies.Christine Kourkoumelis, (Athens U.). CERN-2008-008, 2008. 5pp. Published in *Naxos 2008, Electronics for particle physics* 10-14
Study of the ATLAS MDT spectrometer using high energy CERN combined test beam data. C. Adorisio et al. ATL-MUON-PUB-2008-005, ATL-COM-MUON-2007-013, Apr 2008. 42pp. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A598:400-415,2009
System test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the H8 beam at the CERN SPS. By ATLAS Muon Collaboration (C. Adorisio et al.). May 2008. 5pp. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A593:232-254, 2008

Physics

SM Higgs searches and discovery

Search for the standard model Higgs boson at LEP. By LEP Working Group for Higgs boson searches and ALEPH Collaboration and DELPHI Collaboration and L3 Collaboration and OPAL Collaboration (R. Barate et al.). CERN-EP-2003-011, Mar 2003. 23pp. Published in Phys.Lett.B565:61-75,2003. e-Print: hep-ex/0306033
Search for the standard model H--> ZZ*--> 4l. By ATLAS Collaboration (C. Anastopoulos et al.). ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-054, ATL-COM-PHYS-2009-205, May 2009. 28pp.
Statistical combination of several important standard model Higgs boson search channels. By ATLAS Collaboration (C. Adam Bourdarios et al.). ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-063, ATL-COM-PHYS-2009-222, May 2009. 34pp
Searches for the higgs boson at LHC with the ATLAS detector. By ATLAS Collaboration (C. Kourkoumelis for the collaboration). ATL-COM-PHYS-2009-024, ATL-PHYS-PROC-2009-039, Feb 2009. 11pp
The ATLAS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B710 (2012) 383-402, “Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H->ZZ(*)->4l with 4.8 fb^-1 of pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with ATLAS”
The ATLAS collaboration, Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC ATLAS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B716 (2012)
The ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS-CONF-2013-013, “Measurements of the properties of the Higgs-like boson in the four lepton decay channel with the ATLAS detector using 25 fb^-1 of proton-proton collision data”
The ATLAS Collaboration, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2013-014 “Projections for measurements of Higgs boson cross sections, branching ratios and coupling parameters with the ATLAS detector at a HL-LHC”
The ATLAS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 012006 “Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in the four-lepton channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector”
The ATLAS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B786 (2018) 223-244 “Constraints on off-shell Higgs boson production and the Higgs boson total width in ZZ--> 4ℓ and ZZ--> ℓℓνν final states with the ATLAS detector”
The ATLAS Collaboration, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 957 “Higgs boson production cross-section measurements and their EFT interpretation in the 4ℓdecay channel at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”
The ATLAS Collaboration, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 941 “Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross sections in the 4ℓ decay channel at √s = 13 TeV”

Higgs talks

ATLAS PHYSICS POTENTIAL:A "BIASED VIEW" / Kourkoumelis, C ATL-CONF-2003-001. - 2002. - 16 p.
The ATLAS muon spectrometer and the hunt for the Higgs boson(s). Christine Kourkoumelis, (Athens U.) 2007. 4pp. Prepared for 6th International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-26 Aug 2006. Published in AIP Conf.Proc.899:41-44,2007. Also in *Istanbul 2006, Balkan Physical Union* 41-44
Higgs experimental overview, Fassouliotis D.,The fours-seas Conference Iasi, Roumania 2007
Measuring the Higgs boson in the ATLAS detector/Kourkoumelis, C /ATLAS Collaboration ATL-SLIDE-2007-048; CERN-ATL-SLIDE-2007-048.- Geneva : CERN, 2007 - 43 p. Presented at : 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow, Russian Federation, 23 - 29 Aug 2007
ATLAS and CMS review of SM Higgs searches: bosonic and fermionic decays, Kourkoumelis, Christine, CHARGED 2014, 16 - 18 Sep 2014, Uppsala, Sweden, ATL-PHYS-PROC-2014-281, http://cds.cern.ch/record/1976165. e-Print: hep-ex/0306033
Higgs Physics in ATLAS, Fassouliotis, D, 14th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, Corfu, Greece, 3 - 21 Sep 2014, https://cds.cern.ch/record/1757513
Higgs boson exclusive analysis and differential distributions, Fassouliotis D., HC2015 Higgs Couplings 2015, Lumley Castle UK
Fiducial and differential Higgs cross sections Fassouliotis D.,Higgs 2020, October 26-30

Search for Supersymmetric Higgs H/A decaying to dimuons : Potential Studies

Search for the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the b b H, H ---> mu+ mu- topology with the ATLAS detector. D. Fassouliotis et al. 2008. 1pp. Prepared for International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2007), Manchester, England, 19-25 Jul 2007. Published in J.Phys.Conf.Ser.110:122013,2008. e-Print: hep-ex/0306033
Higgs boson searches in CP-conserving and CP-violating MSSM scenarios with the DELPHI detector. By DELPHI Collaboration (J. Abdallah et al.). CERN-PH-EP-2007-029, DAPNIA-07-150, Jul 2007. 52pp. Published in Eur.Phys.J.C54:1-35,2008, Erratum-ibid.C56:165-170,2008. e-Print: arXiv:0801.3586 [hep-ex]
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP. By ALEPH Collaboration and DELPHI Collaboration and L3 Collaboration and OPAL Collaborations and LEP Working Group for Higgs Boson Searches (S. Schael et al.). CERN-PH-EP-2006-001, Jan 2006. 82pp Published in Eur.Phys.J.C47:547-587,2006. e-Print: hep-ex/0602042
Search for the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the decay channel A/H/h ---> mu+ mu-. By ATLAS Collaboration (H. Bilokon et al.). ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-060, ATL-COM-PHYS-2009-219, May 2009. 29pp.
Impact of the alignment of the EC muon spectrometer to SM H&8594; 4 &956; and MSSM H/A&8594; 2 &956; reconstruction and detection 002 / ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-002 ; - 2004. - 19 p.
Discovery potential for the MSSM H/A bosons decaying to two muons at ATLAS. M. Milosavljevic, (Belgrade U.) , C. Kourkoumelis, D. Fassouliotis, K. Nikolopoulos, (Athens U.) . 2007. 2pp. Prepared for 6th International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-26 Aug 2006. Published in AIP Conf.Proc.899:209-210,2007. Also in *Istanbul 2006, Balkan Physical Union* 209-210
Kourkoumelis, C., Fassouliotis, D.; Nikolopoulos, K; Milosavlijevic, M. “Discovery potential for the MSSM H/A->mu+mu- decays from direct and associated H/A production “, ATLAS-Public Note, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2006-030, (2006)
Search for non-standard-model Higgs at the LHC with ATLAS , Fassouliotis D.,EPS HEP Krakow, Poland 2009

Searches for new heavy Vector Bosons Z' and W'

Dilepton Resonances at High Mass. By ATLAS Collaboration (F.M.L. Almeida, Jr. et al.). ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-070, ATL-COM-PHYS-2009-093, May 2009. 30pp.
Collider aspects of flavour physics at high Q.F. del Aguila et al. FERMILAB-CONF-08-439-T, SLAC-PUB-13128, Jan 2008. Report of Working Group 1 of the CERN Workshop Flavor in the Era of the LHC. Published in Eur.Phys.J.C57:183-308,2008. e-Print: arXiv:0801.1800 [hep-ph]
Searches for W'/Z' , W*/Z* and new contact interactions in di-lepton final states with ATLAS, Fassouliotis D.,PHENO 2011 Madison, USA 2011

Organization of Atlas Physics Workshop May 2003

Talks & Presentations

Physics Outreach Projects

Learning with ATLAS @CERN

Coordination of EU LLP project

The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching

Participation in the EU FP7 project

Discover the COSMOS

Coordination of EU FP7 project

Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School (GoLab)

Participation in the EU FP7 project

Inspiring Science Education

Participation in the EU CIP project

Creations

Participation in the EU CSA project

Frontiers

Participation in the ERASMUS+ project

Reinforce

Participation in the EU Horizon 2020 project

HY.P.A.T.I.A.

Application

HY.P.A.T.I.A.

Web Application

International Masterclasses

2006-2021, Athens, Heraklion

Outreach Publications

D. Vudragovic, A. Balaz, A. Belic, C. Kourkoumelis, D. Fassouliotis and S. Vourakis: "Hybrid Pupil's Analysis Тооl for Interactions in ATLAS", Proceedings of MIPRO 2010
R. M. Barnett, K. E. Johansson, C. Kourkoumelis, L. Long, J. Pequenao, C. Reimers, and P. Watkins, Learning with the ATLAS experiment at CERN, Physics Education 47 no. 1, (2012) 28
Farid Ouid-Saada,International Particle Physics Masterclasses –Bringing LHC data into the Classroom. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics,July 4-11, 2012, Melbourne, Australia
C. Kourkoumelis, How “Discover the COSMOS” and “PATHWAY” are changing the science education in European high schools, MPS Online Proceedings Library, Vol 1585, 17th July 2013, Cambridge Press
S Vourakis and C Kourkoumelis HY.P.A.T.I.A. – An Online Tool for ATLAS Event Visualization, Volos summer school 2013 proceedings
C. Kourkoumelis and S. Vourakis, HYPATIA an online tool for ATLAS event visualization, Physics Education 49, no. 1, (2014) 21
Bugge, Magnar K., Gramstad, Eirik, Morisbak, Vanja, Ould-Saada, Farid, Pedersen, Maiken, and Raddum, Silje H., ATLAS Masterclasses W and Z path physics and presentation of the Z path measurement, ICNFP Kolympari 2013, EPJ Web of Conferences 71 (2014) 00024
C. Kourkoumelis, “How “Discover the COSMOS”, “PATHWAY”, “Go-Lab” and “Inspiring Science Education” are changing the science education in European high schools”, ICNFP Kolympari 2013, EPJ Web of Conferences 71, (2014) 00071
Stylianos Vourakis, Bringing high energy physics to the classroom with HY.P.A.T.I.A., ICNFP Kolympari 2013, EPJ Web of Conferences 71, (2014) 00137
C.Kourkoumelis and S.Vourakis, Introducing HEP to schools through educational scenaria, ICNFP 2014 Kolymbari, http://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2015/14/epjconf_icnfp2014_03021.pdf
Christine Kourkoumelis and Stylianos Vourakis on behalf of the ATLAS collaboration, How the HYPATIA analysis tool is used as a hands-on experience to introduce HEP to high schools, Presented at the ICHEP 2014,Valencia, Spain, Valencia 2014, Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplement 00 (2014) 1–7 : 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.198
Stylianos Vourakis, Christine Kourkoumelis and Sofoklis Sotiriou, The interactive “HYPATIA” tool as a good practice science education resource of the “Go-Lab” FP7 European project, International Conference New Perspectives in Science Education, Florence 2015, to be published in proceedings
Christine Kourkoumelis, Stylianos Vourakis and George Vasileiadis, Involving students in HEP research with the help of the “Inspiring Science Education” and “Go-lab” European outreach projects, EPS 2015 Vienna
Dimitris Fassouliotis, Christine Kourkoumelis, Stylianos Vourakis, Introducing HEP to university students through web based simple hands-on analysis, 4th ICNFP Kolympari 2015

ATLAS

Most Cited ATLAS Publications

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, ATLAS Collaboration, Phys.Lett.B 716 (2012) 1-29, 1207.7214 [hep-ex]
The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS Collaboration, JINST 3 (2008) S08003
The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure, ATLAS Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.C 70 (2010) 823-874, 1005.4568 [physics.ins-det]
Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics, ATLAS Collaboration, 0901.0512 [hep-ex]
Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments, ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) 191803 1503.07589 [hep-ex]
Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC pp collision data at √s=7 and 8 TeV, ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, JHEP 08 (2016) 045, 1606.02266 [hep-ex]
Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at√ s=7 TeV, ATLAS Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.C 73 (2013) 3, 2304, 1112.6426 [hep-ex]
Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC, ATLAS Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.C 73 (2013) 8, 2518, 1302.4393 [hep-ex]
Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at √s =13 TeV, ATLAS Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.C 76 (2016) 5, 292, 1603.05598 [hep-ex]
Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data, ATLAS Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.C 72 (2012) 1909, 1110.3174 [hep-ex]
The rest of the ATLAS experiment publications can be found at: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasPublic

JLab

GlueX@Jlab

B.D.Levington et al, Performance of the ptotype module of the GlueX electromagnetic barrel calorimeter, NIM A 596, 327-337 (2008)
P. Ioannou, C. Kourkoumelis, G. Lolos, G. Voulgaris, “BCAL read-out utilizing field resistant PMT's”, GlueX-doc-712-v2, Dec 2006
Kourkoumelis, C (only author),”Analysis of special runs from the BCAL test at Jlab.”, GlueX-doc-877-v2, Oct.2007
Kourkoumelis, C (only author),”Analysis of the BCAL runs with Pb-converter of different thickness”, GlueX-doc-752-v3, Mar 2007
Dzierba A. et al (7 authors), “BCAL Facts: What we know and how we know”, GlueX-doc-842-v0, Jul 2007
Kourkoumelis, C (only author), “Analysis of the cosmic ray runs from the BCAL test at Jlab”, GlueX-doc-836-v0, Jul 2007
Katsaganis S., Kourkoumelis C., Voulgaris G., “Another readout alternative for the BCAL”, GlueX-doc-731-v1, Nov 2006
Kourkoumelis C, Voulgaris G., “A modular calibration system”, GlueX-doc-901-v1, Oct 2007
E.G.Anassontzis et al, Relative gain monitoring of the GlueX calorimeters, NIM A 738 (2014), 41

UoA ATLAS/MDT HEP Group

Christine Kourkoumelis

Professor Emeritus

Georgios Voulgaris

Retired Associate Professor

Dimitris Fassouliotis

Professor

Stelios Vourakis

Researcher

Stelios Angelidakis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Past group members

†Pavlos Ioannou - Associate Professor
Konstantinos Nikolopoulos - PhD student
Ariadni Antonaki - PhD student
Marija Vranjes Milosavljevic - Postdoctorate Physicist (Collaborator from IP Belgrade)
Nenad Vranjes - PhD student (Joint with IP Belgrade)
Zaharias Roupas - Postgraduate Student
Stamatis Katsaganis - PhD student
Poppy Iordanidou - PhD student
Georgios Vasileiadis - PhD student
Sofia Chouridou - Postdoctoral Researcher
Nikos Tsirintanis - PhD student
Panayiotis Bellos - PhD student
Alexis Stambekis – Msc student