Recent ATLAS Achievements at UTA

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Recent ATLAS Achievements at UTA

• Tier 2 up and running
• Increased activities at CERN
• Kaushik 1 year sabbatical
• 3 research scientists now at CERN
• 2 graduate students also at CERN
• ATLAS installation progressing rapidly
• Increased responsibilities in ATLAS
• Computing, installation, commissioning, physics
• Increased funding (partial list below from past 6
  months)
• DoE base 570k 65k (50 spent on ATLAS)
• NSF ATLAS 500k 350k 36.8k
• DoE ATLAS 129k 137k 68.5k 54k 19k
• Total so far 1.612 million for ATLAS alone, and
  growing

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Recent Tier 2 Achievements at UTA

• Tier 2 Phase 1 hardware ready at UTACC
• Received initial 500k funding from NSF
• Expect additional 350k in few weeks
• Tier 2 personnel in place
• 1.5 FTE funded by NSF
• 3.5 FTE funded by DoE
• Bi-monthly Tier 2 physics workshops held at UTA
• Regional leadership role, expanding
  collaborations
• March 11 attended by SMU, OU, LU, LSU, UNM
• Also D0SAR meeting in March attended by OU, LU,
  LSU, UF
• May 5-6 expect SMU, OU, LU, LSU, UNM, UA, UTD
• Getting ready for data next year

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Assessment of UTA Ranking

• Based on 2005 data collected by AIP/APS on
  Graduate Programs
• In Texas
• UTA 5th in total funding
• UTA 1st in funding per faculty
• Nationally
• UTA is 42nd in total funding
• UTA is 11th in funding per faculty (after
  Cornell, Northeastern, MIT, Florida, UC-Irvine,
  UW-Madison, Penn State, UCLA, USC)
• Expect 50 funding increase in 2006 big jump in
  rankings (Expect to be Number 1 experimental HEP
  group in Texas)

Faculty Funding
UT Austin 10 2,308,100
Rice 10 1,686,000
SMU 9 1,500,000
Texas AM 11 1,486,251
UTA 4 1,480,750
UTD 3 927,384
Baylor 5 579,633
Texas Tech 4 400,000
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Future of ATLAS at UTA

• Presidents budget shows doubling of DoE budget
  in 10 yrs
• Expect high international visibility for UTA
  through ATLAS
• Potential for many fundamental discoveries for
  10-15 years
• UTA poised to be regional/national leader in
  fundamental particle physics
• Media outlets will pay increasing attention
  starting 2007
• Currently 4 HEP faculty members at UTA
• Kaushik 100 ATLAS
• Jae recently transitioned to 50 ATLAS, 50
  Linear collider
• Andrew transitioning to ATLAS from 100 D0
• Andy currently 50 D0, transition soon to
  ATLAS, 50 ILC
• Need new junior faculty member focused 100 on
  ATLAS
• Unanimously rated top priority by Physics Strat.
  Plan. Comm. on 4/13
• Unanimously endorsed by Physics faculty on 4/14
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How will UTA Benefit?

• More physics results published from UTA with
  ATLAS data
• Increase regional/national leadership role
• Protect and grow ATLAS funding, increase ranking
• Expect low startup request
• New Physics building, Tier 2 computing, UTA well
  know in ATLAS
• New faculty will need student postdoc 75k/yr
  for 3 years