ATLAS Future Plans: Upgrade and the Physics with High Luminosity

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

^a e-mail: srini.rajagopalan@cern.ch

Abstract

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 physics capabilities. During the coming decade, the Large Hadron Collider will collide protons on protons at a center of mass energy up to 14 TeV with luminosities steadily increasing in a phased approach to over 5 × 10³⁴ cm⁻²s⁻¹. The resulting large data sets will significantly enhance the physics reach of the ATLAS detector building on the recent discovery of the Higgs-like boson. The planned detector upgrades being designed to cope with the increasing luminosity and its impact on the ATLAS physics program will be discussed.