The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, studies the laws of nature at the smallest distances that we can probe in a laboratory. With this apparatus we hope to make fundamental discoveries about the particles that make up the universe and the forces that bind them together. The UT-Austin group, lead by Profs. Peter Onyisi and Tim Andeen, focuses on studies of the recently-discovered Higgs boson and the associated questions of electroweak symmetry breaking. We also have a deep involvement in the ATLAS data quality monitoring infrastructure and Liquid Argon electronics. |