The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2024 are:

• Christian Appelt (Humboldt University, Germany): Extending the limits in the hunt for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
• Ana Luisa Carvalho (Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico and Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal): Measurements of Higgs boson properties in associated production with top quarks with the ATLAS detector
• Shalini Epari (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain): What to expect when you are expecting new physics: searches for new phenomena in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector
• Emily Ann Smith (University of Chicago, USA): A Global View of Jets With the ATLAS Detector: From Hardware Triggers to Precision Measurements and Beyond
• Kaito Sugizaki (University of Tokyo, Japan): Search for higgsinos with compressed mass spectra in final states with low-momentum leptons using 140 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
• Martino Tanasini (Università di Genova, Italy): The Higgs, the Beauty and the Charm: Improving Jet Flavour-Tagging and Higgs Boson Measurements with Graph Neural Networks in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
• Aric Tate (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA): Investigations of Initial State Effects in p+Pb Collisions via Dijet Measurement with the ATLAS Detector
• Makayla Vessella (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA): Do Dibosons Dream of Semileptonic Sheep? Searching for heavy Wh resonances and optimizing track reconstruction with the ATLAS detector

See the News Article on the 2024 Awards.

The ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award winners for 2024 are:

• Luca Canali (CERN) for outstanding contributions to the ATLAS database infrastructure.

• Jackson Barr (University College London), Alexander Froch (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Philipp Gadow (CERN), Dan Guest (Humboldt University Berlin), Nilotpal Kakati (Weizmann Institute of Science), Dmitrii Kobylianskii (Weizmann Institute of Science), Nikita Ivvan Pond (University College London), Samuel Van Stroud (University College London) for outstanding contributions to heavy flavour tagging algorithms based on Graph Neural Networks.

• Liang Guan (Michigan), Ioannis Mesolongitis (University of West Attica), Michelle Solis (University of Arizona), Aaron White (Harvard University) for understanding the problem of randomly dropping e-links in the NSW and for finding a very effective mitigation for this problem.

• Jakub Kremer (DESY), Agnieszka Ogrodnik (Charles University), Martin Rybar (Charles University) for outstanding contributions to the Heavy Ions operation and trigger.

• Koji Nakamura (KEK), Hideyuki Oide (KEK), Manabu Togawa (KEK) for outstanding contributions to the ITk Pixel project in sensor production, hybridisation and module assembly.

• Johannes Junggeburth (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Patrick Scholer (Carleton University) for outstanding contributions to the Run 3 muon software.

• Sara Alderweireldt (University of Edinburgh), Rafal Bielski (University of Oregon), Francesco Giuli (CERN), Ralf Gugel (University of Mainz), Claudia Merlassino (University of Udine), Stefanie Morgenstern (CERN), Gabriel Palacino (Indiana University), Aleksandra Poreba (CERN), Antonia Strubig (Stockholm University), Daniele Zanzi (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) for outstanding contributions to the Trigger operation.

• Julien Maurer (Bucharest IFIN-HH) for outstanding contributions to the ATLAS prompt reconstruction operation.

• Anthony Affolder (UC Santa Cruz), Ian Dyckes (Berkeley LBNL), Vitaliy Fadeyev (UC Santa Cruz), Cole Helling (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Jacob Wayne Johnson (UC Santa Cruz), Matthew Kurth (Beijing IHEP), Masahiro Morii (Harvard University), Peter Phillips (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Luise Poley (TRIUMF), Craig Sawyer (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) for outstanding contributions to the identification of the vibrational source of cold noise on ITk Strip modules.

See the News Article on the 2024 Awards