Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

This is a bridging grant application for two recently hired ATLAS-Canada faculties, Alison Lister of the University of British Columbia and Jean-Francois Arguin of the University of Montreal. This grant will support their research program until the renewal of the ATLAS-Canada Project grant during the 2015 competition. This application describes the program that will be initiated during these two years and that we expect will be carried out within a few years of the next cycle of the ATLAS-Canada Project grant. This research will enhance Canada's role in one of the world's most highly regarded scientific endeavors.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is making it possible for physicists to study the fundamental building blocks and forces of the universe. Using the ATLAS detector at the LHC, the highest energy man-made collisions will be probed, in hopes of finding signs of how the universe came to be what we see around us. The common objective of these two programs is to discover new physics by using top quark events or signatures where top quarks constitute a dominant background. This will be performed either by searching directly for new physics or by studying top quark properties in detail. Measurement of the Standard Model and detector calibration will also be proposed, which we believe will pave the way to these discoveries. Complex analysis techniques will be used to enhance the sensitivity of these searches.