The ATLAS Project

Prof. Ryszard A Stroynowski

Professor, Department of Physics, SMU

Thursday, September 16, 2004, 2:00-3:00pm

110 Jerry Junkins Building

Abstract

The ATLAS experiment is designed to search for new elementary particles and new physics phenomena at very high energies. Its construction is one of the largest science projects in the last decade. The detector will be completed in next two years and will start operations in 2007. I will present the project, its goals and special challenges in engineering and computing as well as directions of the R&D programs for the future upgrades.

Biography

Ryszard A. Stroynowski was born in Lodz, and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. As an undergraduate he studied physics at the University of Warsaw and obtained a Magister degree (M.Sc.) in 1968 and then he worked there as an Assistant in the Physics Department. He emigrated from Poland in 1969 to Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked until 1975 as a research scientist at CERN - the European Center for Nuclear Research, while pursuing a graduate study at the University of Geneva. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1973. Since 1975 he has lived in USA and became a naturalized citizen in 1980. After 6 years as a Staff Scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) he spent 11 years as a Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at Caltech. Since 1991 he is a Professor of Physics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Richard Stroynowski’s research interests lie in the area of experimental High Energy Particle physics and the structure of matter. His early work studied the partonic structure of the proton which provided experimental basis for the QCD - the theory of strong interactions. For the last 20 years he studied the properties of heavy quarks using electron - positron colliders at SLAC and Cornell and led an extended effort to understand the properties of the tau lepton. Richard Stroynowski was also involved in developing the research program for the Supercollider. He served on the Executive Committee of GEM Collaboration designing one of the two large detectors that were planned for the Supercollider. He also led an effort to build the world’s largest superconducting magnet. At present he continues the study of the properties of the bottom quark using the CLEO detector at Cornell and works on the preparation of the physics program and construction of the ATLAS detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Since December 2000 he has been the US ATLAS coordinator of the Liquid Argon Calorimeter program. He is married and has two daughters, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a US Representative to the NATO Science for Peace Steering Group.

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