SLAC ATLAS Home

This is the home page of the ATLAS department at SLAC.  Here is a brief overview of the group's activities. The left side-bar top section navigates to the various specific areas of activities of the SLAC group. More general information can be found below.
This space is under construction. For original material not found here please also see our static web page and the original area pages for:

Pixel (static) | TDAQ (static) | Simulation (static) | Upgrade (static)

ATLAS Documentation

• LHC Accelerator and Detector Papers (JINST)
• ATLAS Detector Paper (local copy 35MB)
• Proposal and TDRs
• Detector Description Diagrams
• ATLAS Public Results
• ATLAS Directory (w/photos)

Computing

• ATLAS Computing at SLAC (older static page)
• Computing Accounts at CERN, BNL and GRID Certificate
• US Western Tier 2 Center
• Local Datasets 
• Datasets available on the GRID at SLAC (SLACXRD)
• ATLAS Computing Workbook

Operations

• Links to LHC and ATLAS operational information
• Shift Training
• OTP Tasks and Shift Booking
• Control  Room Webcam
• First Beam Events Nov 20, 2009
• First Beam Day Sep 10, 2008

US ATLAS/LHC

• US ATLAS Main Page
• US ATLAS Mailing List
• US ATLAS Reporting Center
• USLUO

Jobs

• SLAC Research Associate on ATLAS
• Rotation projects for Graduate Students

SLAC Local Information

• For SLAC Visitors
• For Stanford Students
• SLAC ATLAS Personnel
• SLAC ATLAS photos
• Safety and Training
• Conference Presentations

SLAC public lectures

• "The Large Hadron Collider: Dedefining High Energy" (Sarah Demers, Jun/2007)
• "Smashing Protons: First Physics at the LHC" (David Miller, Nov/2010) 
• "In the shadow of the Higgs" (Emanuel Strauss, Aug/2012)
• "Start from the Bottom: The Hunt for New Physics at the LHC" (Michael Kagan, Jan/2015)

CERN Local Information

• Laptop registration
• Visitor and Car Registration
• CERN Airport Shuttle Schedule
• ATLAS Visitor Information
• CERN On Site Services
• SLAC Team's Phones at CERN
• CERN Car
• CERN Access Rights
• Map of Switzerland
• ViaMichelin (France)
• Geneva Airport
• Geneva Weather
• Local Restaurants
• Business Opening Hours

Travel Instructions

• STAP Reimbursement checklist
• Foreign Travel Training October 2012
• Foreign travel business-to-personal-days ratio
• Foreign travel conference agenda and presentation notes
• Fly America Act and Open Skies Agreement
• Direct Deposit available for registration reimbursements
• Travel Policy and Procedure updates, February 2011
• DTS release, January 2011
• Assignment and Return Guidelines
• Oanda instructions, July 2010
• Conference Approval system - see Adrienne
• CERN area approved hotels

Travel Links

• SLAC Travel Office
• Travel Forms
• Foreign Travel Authorization (FTA)
• Foreign Expense Report (FER)
• Foreign Per-Diem Rates by Location
• Breakdown of M&IE Rates
• Domestic Travel System (DTS)
• Registration Reimbursement (Training)

Conferences

• Meetings Exempt from DOE Conference Approval

Property Transfer and Shipping

• BIS Property Transfer
• SLAC eShipper

• SLAC ATLAS meeting and events Google Calendar
• Future Global ATLAS Meetings Calendar
• ATLAS Meeting Agendas
• ATLAS Weeks

Regular ATLAS Meetings at SLAC & CERN

Other irregular meetings:  SLAC Pixel Meeting, SLAC TDAQ Meeting 

For VIDYO information please see individual meeting agenda.

The locations of the conference rooms can be found on the meeting room map.

Recent and Upcoming Local Events

2016

• Higgs Couplings 2016 (Nov/9-12, SLAC)
• SLAC Summer Institute (SSI-2016), "New Horizons on the Energy Frontier" (Aug/15-26, SLAC)  
• HGTD meeting (Mar/31-Apr/1, Santa Cruz)

2015

• Hadronic Final State Forum (Dec/14-18, Seattle)
• Machine Learning Physics Jamboree (Dec/7/201 SLAC)
• US Fast Forward Timing Detector Meeting (Nov/9, Santa Cruz)
• US ITK Upgrade Meeting (Jul/7 SLAC)
• LHC Run 2 performance kick-start workshop (Mar/25-27 LBNL)
• Connecting the Dots 2015 (Feb/9-11 LBNL)

2014

• 42nd LAC Summer Institute: "Shining Light on Dark Matter", SLAC (Aug/4-15/2014)
• Workshop on Physics at a 100 TeV Collider (Apr/23-25/2014)

2013

• US ATLAS Tracking workshop at LBNL/SLAC (Nov/12-15/2013)
• 41st SLAC Summer Institute: "Journeys through the Frontier" (Jul/8-19/2013)
• Lepton-Photon 2013, San Francisco (Jun/24-29/2013)
• Stanford Hofstadter Lecture: "The Higgs boson and our life" and colloquium by Fabiola Gianotti (Apr/8/2013)

Past events at SLAC

Other ATLAS-related Local Activities

• LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) at SLAC