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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New Management at the ATLAS Experiment

Dave Charlton passes the baton to new ATLAS Spokesperson Karl Jakobs

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13 March, 2017
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13 March, 2017

Award season at the ATLAS Experiment

ATLAS PhD students publish dozens of outstanding theses every year. Since 2010, a few have been celebrated at the annual ATLAS Thesis Awards.

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08 March, 2017
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08 March, 2017

Meet the talented recipients of the ATLAS PhD Grant

The ATLAS PhD Grant gives students an opportunity to benefit from world-class research, supervision and training within the ATLAS collaboration

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23 February, 2017
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23 February, 2017

How strange is the proton?

ATLAS measurements show proton has more strange quarks than previously thought

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16 February, 2017
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16 February, 2017

EYETS report: painstaking work on the detectors

On the experiments’ side, the extended year-end technical stop is a precious opportunity to carry out repairs and maintenance works on their detectors

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15 February, 2017
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15 February, 2017

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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19 September, 2016
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19 September, 2016