Ahmed Bassalat is a Palestinian PhD student at LAL, France, working on IBL and planar pixel sensors for ATLAS and the VBF H->invisible analysis channel. He joined Paris sud 11 University in France after getting his Bachelor degree from An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. Ahmed is working to get Palestinian students and Universities more involved in High Energy Physics.
Previously in Notes from Underground, Dave Robinson wrote in some detail about the work going on inside the ATLAS Detector, and Clara Nellist wrote about the inner detector of ATLAS, discussing the different types of detection units or Sensors (Planars & 3D). I will continue to delve into the exciting world of the inner detector with its brand new Insertable B-Layer (IBL) and its related parts.
