ATLAS News

The Symphony of ATLAS

23rd June 2014 – Bringing the nine-storey high, many-layered ATLAS detector back to life and preparing it for the Large Hadron Collider's next run is a complex task. Each sub-detector is setup and thoroughly tested before they are joined and the detector as a whole can begin recording data again.

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Are You Up for the Higgs Challenge?

16th June 2014 – It's been four weeks since the four-month long Higgs Machine Learning Challenge was announced. Almost 700 teams have signed up and more than 200 have beaten the in-house benchmark already.

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Higgs Mass to String Balls

6th June 2014 – ATLAS presented new results at the Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) Conference in Columbia University, New York, 2 to 7 June. Many new searches and improved measurements were presented, among which were an updated Higgs boson mass measurement, a search for double Higgs boson production and new searches for Supersymmetry and exotic phenomena.

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A New Sub Detector for ATLAS

2nd June 2014 – Closest to the beam pipe where particle collisions will occur in the very heart of ATLAS, a new sub-detector – the Insertable B-Layer – was put in place on 7 May. The IBL team had been developing and practicing the insertion procedure and tooling for two years because of the operation’s delicate nature.

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New results from ATLAS at Quark Matter 2014

30th May 2014 – ATLAS has prepared a variety of new results for the Quark Matter 2014 conference using lead-lead (Pb+Pb) and proton-lead (p+Pb) data collected during Run1. 

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ATLAS Book Wins the IPPY Awards

29th May 2014 – "Hunting the Higgs", published by Papadakis Publishers in collaboration with the ATLAS Experiment won the Bronze prize in the Science category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards. 

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ATLAS Cavern Banjo Video Wins Third Place

27th May 2014
Joe Izen playing the banjo during the early hours of the morning in the ATLAS Control Room during the Large Hadron Collider's first run. (Image: Steven Goldfarb/CERN)


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"A hard day, with so much beauty"

13th May 2014 – ATLAS physicists travelled with Physics Without Frontiers 2014, a project run by International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), to three Palestinian universities this April to share the joy of scientific research with 140 students. 

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ATLAS Connects with Science Fest Visitors

29th April 2014 – On 5 and 6 April, Michigan State University's ATLAS physicists who are based at CERN connected virtually via video-conference to visitors attending the annual Science Festival in East Lansing, USA, to talk about particle physics and what it is like to be a physicist.

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ATLAS to present new results at Moriond

ATLAS to present new results at Moriond

14th March 2014 – ATLAS collaborators and other scientists will be presenting new findings at the two weeks of the Rencontres de Moriond conferences, which starts on 15 March, at La Thuile in Italy.

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