Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a general purpose programmable logic device
that can be configured by a customer after manufacturing to perform from a simple logic gate …

High luminosity conditions at the LHC pose many unique challenges for potential silicon
based track trigger systems. Among those challenges is data formatting, where hits from …

ATLAS is one of the two main experiments at LHC with the purpose of investigating the
microscopic properties of matter to address the most fundamental questions of particle …

Dark Matter searches with the ATLAS Detector Page 1 / 31 Dark Matter searches with the
ATLAS Detector on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration 1 Will Kalderon, Lund University (SE) …

Real-time track reconstruction in high-energy physics experiments at colliders running at
high luminosity is very challenging for trigger systems. To perform pattern recognition and …

The ATLAS experiment is planning a series of detector upgrades to cope with the planned
increases in instantaneous luminosity and multiple interactions per crossing to maintain its …

ATLAS is one of the four big LHC experiments and recently its Pixel Detector was upgraded
with a new innermost 4th layer: the Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The upgrade will result in better …

There is strong astronomical and cosmological evidence for the near-ubiquitous presence of
dark matter in the wider universe, on a variety of scales. A compelling hypothesis is that of …

This work covers two important aspects in the field of high-energy physics; detector
development and physics data analysis. The first part of this thesis is devoted to the detector …