ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC is a Discovery Machine that will collide protons together at extremely high energies hoping to create never before seen particles. Starting in late 2009/2010, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of LHC. ATLAS will learn about the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, unification of fundamental forces, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the Universe. The ATLAS Collaboration consists of more than 2900 physicists, from 37 countries and 172 different institutions. The Experimental Particle Physics (EPP) group at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Sydney, were founding members of the ATLAS collaboration. The Melbourne EPP group made significant contributions to the development, production and testing of silicon modules for the ATLAS Inner Detector, and is an active member of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) collaboration. We are also involved in a range of simulation, reconstruction and analysis studies at ATLAS.

• TO DO: For information about possible analysis topics contact Geoff Taylor or Elisabetta Barberio. Details current studies can be found on the Group Members or Student Projects page at left.