Optimizing Monte Carlo simulations for ATLAS
I am Archil Durglishvili, in this summer I have graduated Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University at Georgia, Masters Degree program of Fundamental Physics. Since 2011 I am connected to Tbilisi Team of ATLAS experiment. In 2012 World Federation of Scientists (President Prof. A. Zichichi) has granted a one-year scholarship to me to undertake research project “The study of the dependence of the response of the Hadronic Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment on the pseudorapidity impact points and light yields of the 180 GeV muons” under supervision of Dr. Tamar Djobava – the member of ATLAS Collaboration from 1995 till now. The fulfillment of the project was successfully done. In the end of 2012 year it was my first short visit at CERN and here I have found out information about summer student program and decided to apply for it. Now I am involved in ATLAS experiment program from Tbilisi team. For last few months I am involved in the search of flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) processes in top-quark decays at ATLAS experiment.
As a summer student I am involved in the project of Tile Calorimeter and data processing. I am participant in the task of optimization of the Monte Carlo (MC) optics model to better describe the Tile Calorimeter response along azimuth angle φ. Monte Carlo simulation plays very important role in the researches at ATLAS experiment, so that I think participation in this project is very important and it will be big experience for me. Also the summer student lectures program is very good opportunity in order to extend one’s knowledge in physics.
My researches concerning to ATLAS experiment program requires knowledge of C++ programming language, a data analysis framework ROOT and ATLAS software framework ATHENA, so that before getting at CERN I have studied these all by helping Tbilisi team members.
Thanks a lot to CERN for giving me a chance (opportunity) to be participant of the world's biggest experiment in particle physics.
