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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Aligning the ATLAS muon spectrometer

In new results, ATLAS physicists describe novel techniques used to accurately align the muon spectrometer

News
Experiments
23 March, 2021
Experiments
News
23 March, 2021

ATLAS recognises the accomplishments of its collaboration members

The 2020 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards and Thesis Awards were presented on 11 February

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Experiments
01 March, 2021

ATLAS: Now under new management

The ATLAS collaboration welcomes new management this month, with Andreas Hoecker (CERN) taking the lead as Spokesperson for the experiment

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Experiments
02 March, 2021
Experiments
News
02 March, 2021

59 new hadrons and counting

Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new particles called hadrons

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Physics
03 March, 2021
Physics
News
03 March, 2021

ATLAS finds evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

The ATLAS experiment at CERN finds evidence of a rare Higgs boson Dalitz decay to two leptons and a photon

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Physics
08 February, 2021

ATLAS releases open software used to filter LHC collisions

The new collection of 200 additional software packages make most ATLAS software open and reinforces ATLAS’s commitment to open science

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Computing
20 November, 2020

ATLAS sets new limits on exotic types of long-lived particles

The result surpasses previous best mass limits achieved with CERN’s predecessor collider to the LHC

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Physics
29 October, 2020

Keeping the ATLAS Inner Detector in perfect alignment

The ATLAS Inner Detector can measure the position of charged particles that pass through it to better than a 100th of a millimetre! To reach that precision, the detector must be aligned to equal or better accuracy

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Experiments
30 September, 2020
Experiments
News
30 September, 2020

Rare phenomenon observed by ATLAS features the LHC as a high-energy photon collider

The ATLAS experiment reports the observation of photon collisions producing weak-force carriers and provides further insights into their interactions

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Physics
05 August, 2020

CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons

Press release
Physics
03 August, 2020
Physics
Press release
03 August, 2020

ATLAS result addresses long-standing tension in the Standard Model

A new ATLAS measurement of a key feature of the Standard Model known as lepton flavour universality suggests that a previous discrepancy measured by the LEP collider in W boson decays may be due to a fluctuation

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Physics
29 July, 2020

The Higgs boson: Revealing nature’s secrets

Our third story in the LHC Physics at Ten series takes us on a deeper dive into the Higgs boson

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Physics
04 July, 2020