Arisa Wada - Detecting High-Momentum Muons at the LHC: The ATLAS Approach

Wednesday 4 Mar 2026, 12:00 → 15:00 Europe/London

610 (G.O. Jones Bulding)

https://cern.zoom.us/j/68995045975?pwd=fdpw3jZ4ZPU61gbaTtDASbS03qKbf4.1

 

About the speaker: 

Arisa Wada is a PhD student at Nagoya University and a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN. During her Master’s studies, she worked on performance evaluation and trigger logic development for the new Thin Gap Chamber (TGC) detectors for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. She currently serves as a TGC detector expert, contributing to the operation and performance monitoring of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. In parallel, her physics research focuses on precision measurements of the Higgs boson in the Hmumu decay channel.

13:30 → 14:00 Biscuits/Coffee/Socialization

14:00 → 15:00 Detecting High-Momentum Muons at the LHC: The ATLAS Approach

Muons are key probes of the physics program at the Large Hadron Collider, providing clean experimental signatures across a wide range of measurements and searches. In proton–proton collisions at the TeV energy scale, however, their detection poses significant experimental challenges, including precise momentum measurement, fast bunch-crossing identification, and robust triggering in a high-rate environment.
In this seminar, I will introduce the design principles of the ATLAS muon spectrometer and discuss how these experimental constraints shape its detector architecture and trigger strategy. I will also outline current developments and future challenges in view of the High-Luminosity LHC.

Convener: Ms Arisa Wada (Nagoya University)