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

• CERN dosimeter certificate, SLAC form
• 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

• Update 9/21/16: Travel to France (and what about to CERN?)

• STAP Reimbursement checklist
• Foreign travel business-to-personal-days ratio
• Fly America Act and Open Skies Agreement
• Direct Deposit available for registration reimbursements
• Assignment and Return Guidelines
• Conference Approval system - see Adrienne
• CERN area approved hotels
• Revised "Travel Policy and Procedure" document - 03/29/16
• Stanford Medical and Travel assistance when traveling internationally
• Foreign travel reference guide 5/18/17
• CERN apartment address and information
• Rental car insurance information

• Concur: How to set up delegates
• Concur: How to enter bank information
• TripIt Pro: organizes all of your travel plans
• Doing expenses with Concur mobile

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)

International Affairs

• Social Security Numbers for Noncitizens

Conferences

• Meetings Exempt from DOE Conference Approval

Property Transfer and Shipping

• BIS Property Control
• 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.

For VIDYO information please see individual meeting agenda.

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

SLAC seminar series

• SLAC Experimental Seminars (Tuesday/Thursday 12:30pm)
• SLAC theory seminars (Wednesday 1:30pm and Friday 12:30pm) 
• Advanced Instrumentation Seminars (AIS) (Time varies, typically Wednesday 1:30pm)
• AI (machine learning) seminars  (Tuesday 2:00pm @B52)

Recent and Upcoming Local Events

2017

• Machine learning and b-tagging workshop @ SLAC ASC (May/23-26, SLAC)
• MC4BSM conference (Ma/11-13, SLAC)

2016

• Hadronic Final State Forum (Dec/12-16, SLAC)
• Higgs Couplings 2016 (Nov/9-12, SLAC)
• LHC Exotic Higgs Working Group Meeting (Nov/7-8, SLAC)
• Annual US LHC User Meeting (Nov/2-4, LBNL)
• CHEP (Oct/10-14, San Francisco)
• 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