• Question: What is ATLAS?

    Asked by Xx_Mr_Hamp$hire_xX to Michele on 8 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Georgina.
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      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 8 Mar 2015:

      ATLAS stand for A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS.
      ATLAS is the largest particle physics experiment ever built and is build around the interaction point, the place where the LHC proton collides, like an onion where each layer is a different detector. Each detector is optimised to reconstruct different properties of the many particles that are produced in every collision. Several system collect the data and store it on hard disks. That is the data that we analyse to publish our result and to discover new particles such as the Higgs boson.

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