ATLAS

ATLAS is one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It investigates a wide range of physics, from the search for the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. The articles below relate to the ATLAS experiment.

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Quark Matter 2017: understanding the early universe

The LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter conference on how matter behaved in the universe's first moments

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Experiments
10 February, 2017
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10 February, 2017

ATLAS releases first measurement of W mass using LHC data

ATLAS reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using LHC proton–proton collision data at 7 TeV

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Experiments
13 December, 2016
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13 December, 2016

The 4th ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event

The “ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event” provided early career researchers with an insight into career opportunities outside academia

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Experiments
09 December, 2016
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09 December, 2016

ATLAS and CMS physicists awarded 2017 Panofsky Prize

Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee, former spokespersons of ATLAS and CMS, will be presented with the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize

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Experiments
27 October, 2016
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27 October, 2016

ATLAS rewards outstanding achievements during Run 2

The awards recognise excellent contributions made to the ATLAS collaboration, with an emphasis on activities carried out in the first year of Run 2

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Experiments
27 October, 2016
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27 October, 2016

Great expectations from fewer collisions

This week, the LHC will ignore its motto of ‘maximum luminosity’, and perform special runs at very low luminosity

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Experiments
22 September, 2016
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22 September, 2016

De-squeeze the beams: TOTEM and ATLAS/ALFA

A special proton-proton run with larger beam sizes at the interaction point is intended to probe the p-p elastic scattering regime at small angles

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Experiments
19 September, 2016
Experiments
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19 September, 2016

Explore LHC data on new ATLAS educational platform

The ATLAS experiment at CERN released data from 100 trillion proton-proton collisions in the LHC in 2012

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Experiments
01 August, 2016

Make music with ATLAS data

Newly-launched Quantizer platform transforms ATLAS events into music

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Experiments
26 May, 2016
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26 May, 2016

Return of the LHC – season 2 continues

The LHC has introduced beam for the first time since the year-end technical stop began in December 2015

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Accelerators
29 March, 2016
Accelerators
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29 March, 2016

LHC collides ions at new record energy

The accelerator is colliding leads ions at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment

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Accelerators
25 November, 2015
Accelerators
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25 November, 2015

ATLAS and CMS experiments shed light on Higgs properties

At the 2015 LHCP conference the collaborations presented for the first time combined measurements of many properties of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
01 September, 2015
Accelerators
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01 September, 2015