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9 - Physics
University of Oxford
Search for squarks and gluinos using final states with jets and missing transverse momentum with the Atlas detector in s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions
Nickerson led the team that defined, produced and installed the micron-precision, frequency scanning interferometry (FSI) stability monitoring system for the forward disks in the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT), part of the inner detector of ATLAS. This confirmed the extreme stability of the ATLAS SCT and was used to confirm periods of stable data taking, during which the ATLAS data was collected. His numerous technical contributions to the FSI included the design of 'quills' holding fibre pairs and beam splitters and the production testing of corner-cube reflectors. He also introduced the control system (DCS) monitors on the jewels (multiple grid nodes).