More than 3000 scientists from all over the world, including about 1000 graduate students, collaborate on the ATLAS experiment – an all-purpose detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector, which first started taking data in 2008, is investigating a wide range of physics, from the search for the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter.
The detector is currently taking data from collisions in the LHC at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV). In the video above you can see how members of the collaboration fared on 3 June 2015, when beams collided at this new energy in the LHC for the first time.
The new blog series "From ATLAS around the World," showcases the diversity of people, jobs and research topics it takes to keep the ATLAS experiment up and running. Contributors come from as far afield as Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa.
Ever wondered how many Turkish physicists it takes to blog from the Bosphorous? What it's like to be a physicist down under? Or even where you can meet a giraffe at a physics workshop?
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