Document Type
Report
Abstract
The ATLAS Detector is one of four different types of detectors within the Large Hadron Collider and is used to study the fundamental theories of the universe. Within the ATLAS experiment, beams of known composition and energies – otherwise known as “test beams” – are one of the many methods used to study specific physical phenomena. In this study, a test beam of muons with an energy of 160 GeV was analyzed to search for evidence of photonuclear interactions. This necessitated analyzing and filtering over 50,000 total events using specific parameters that would indicate such an event had occurred. To do this, a mapping of the energy distribution between cells within the Tile Calorimeter for specific modules was created, although the results of this showed the probability of a photonuclear interaction occurrence was unlikely. Still, more work needs to be done to continue the search for photonuclear interaction events within this run of data.
Disciplines
Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory | Nuclear | Quantum Physics
Publication Date
5-2024
Language
English
Faculty Mentor of Honors Project
Haleh Hadavand
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Miranda M., "The Search for Photonuclear Interactions of Muons Utilizing Test Beam Data at the Large Hadron Collider" (2024). 2024 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 26.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2024/26
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