Thomas Koffas
Professor, Department of Physics
Professor Koffas’ primary research interests are on experimental particle physics as a member of the ATLAS Collaboration. ATLAS is a multi-purpose detector operating at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) designed to search for signals that will enable physicists to understand the fundamental laws of nature and in particular the acquisition of mass through the so-called Higgs mechanism.
Over time, Professor Koffas has worked on the ATLAS Tracker that reconstructs the tracks of charged particles and in particular the Transition Radiation Tracker. He then moved on to working on the reconstruction of electrons and photons in ATLAS by combining the information from the ATLAS tracker and electromagnetic calorimeter. This constitutes the ground-work for the search for the Higgs boson via its decays either to two photons or to four leptons.