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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The Higgs boson: What makes it special?

Our second story in the LHC Physics at Ten series visits the LHC’s most important discovery so far

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Physics
04 May, 2020
Physics
Feature
04 May, 2020

ATLAS probes dark matter using the Higgs boson

The Higgs boson plays a crucial role in the search for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
07 May, 2020

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the Higgs boson–top quark interaction

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction

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Physics
29 April, 2020

Entering Uncharted Waters

The Large Hadron Collider began its physics programme on this day a decade ago

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Accelerators
30 March, 2020
Accelerators
Feature
30 March, 2020

ATLAS releases 13-TeV open data for science education

The collaboration has made public the data of 1 quadrillion proton-proton collisions from the LHC’s last run

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Knowledge sharing
13 February, 2020
Knowledge sharing
News
13 February, 2020

New open release allows theorists to explore LHC data in a new way

The ATLAS collaboration releases full analysis likelihoods, a first for an LHC experiment

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Knowledge sharing
09 January, 2020
Knowledge sharing
News
09 January, 2020

LS2 Report: ATLAS upgrades are in full swing

The assembly of the new muon small wheels and the upgrades on the electronics and trigger systems are progressing well

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Experiments
03 September, 2019
Experiments
News
03 September, 2019

New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far

Press release
Physics
15 July, 2019
Physics
Press release
15 July, 2019

ATLAS homes in on magnetic monopoles

The ATLAS collaboration has placed some of the tightest limits yet on the production rate of hypothetical particles known as magnetic monopoles

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Physics
14 June, 2019
Physics
News
14 June, 2019

ATLAS surveys new supersymmetry territory

New studies from the ATLAS collaboration search for hypothetical “supersymmetric” particles around uncharted corners

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Physics
23 May, 2019

Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld

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Physics
29 March, 2019

ATLAS observes light scattering off light

The ATLAS Collaboration has reported the observation of light-by-light scattering with a significance beyond eight standard deviations

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Physics
19 March, 2019