Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC studies fundamental physics at the high energy and
high intensity frontier. It will undergo a major upgrade in 2024 to enable it to profit from
an increase of the LHC luminosity by a factor 5 from the current level. ATLAS-Canada will
have major roles in this, including in the end-cap of the new inner tracker strips detector.

The increased luminosity will allow a much larger (ten times) data set to be accumulated,
enabling several important studies to be completed including measurement of the Higgs coupling
to muons, and the Higgs self-coupling. It will also increase the mass and cross section ranges
of searches for new physics, possibly leading to discovery of supersymmetric particles or dark
matter candidates.

I have recently joined TRIUMF to develop the design, assembly methods, and quality
control, and continue through the assembly, installation and commissioning phases of this
ambitious project. In April 2018 I will join the main ATLAS-Canada Project Grant. This
proposal is for a bridging grant for one year starting April 2017, to build up a team to
prepare the TRIUMF contribution. In addition to myself, the proposed team will have a
post-doc, two graduate students, and two undergraduate students.

The team will prepare tooling and methods for assembly of silicon strip modules, and for
placing these on their mechanical supports, as well as the quality control methods required
to ensure a very high proportion of working channels.

The proposed research will give an excellent training to the team in particle detectors, and
use of state-of-the art instruments such as wire bonders and precision pick-and-place machines.