Further progress in the quest for SUSY particles

4th August 2016 – ATLAS physicists have been eagerly searching the collected data for evidence of the production of the supersymmetric top quark (squark). Recent ATLAS results feature five separate searches for this elusive particle. 

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Hunting the origin of the top quark’s mass

4th August 2016 – The ATLAS experiment has been searching for the process in which a pair of top quarks is produced, where one is a “virtual” particle that emits a Higgs boson on the way to becoming a “real” particle. This process is referred to as ttH production after the particles that are produced.

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Searching for new phenomena in final states with missing momentum and jets

4th August 2016 – The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics. While extraordinary, the Standard Model can not explain dark matter, whose existence is well established by cosmological measurements.

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New ATLAS results to be presented at ICHEP

3rd August 2016 – Results using record-breaking 2016 data will be presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Chicago, 3-10 August.

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Explore LHC data on new ATLAS educational platform

28th July 2016 – On Friday 29 July, the ATLAS experiment at CERN released the data from 100 trillion proton-proton collisions to the public. This includes the world’s first open release of 8 TeV data, gathered from the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, making it the most current high-energy physics open data.

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Continuing the search for extra dimensions

17th June 2016 – For a long time, physicists have assumed that space-time has four dimensions in total – three of space and one of time – in agreement with what we see when we look around us. However, some theorists have proposed that there may be other spatial dimensions that we don’t experience in our daily lives.

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Di-photons in the spotlight

16th June 2016 – The ATLAS collaboration has now released the final results on the search for new physics in the di-photon channel using 2015 data.

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Something went bump in the night

16th June 2016 – ATLAS has published hundreds of studies of LHC data, with the Higgs boson discovery being perhaps the best known. Amongst the Run 1 searches there was one which stood out: the diboson excess.

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A peek inside the proton…

15th June 2016 – When the protons from the LHC collide, they sometimes produce W and Z bosons, the massive carriers of the weak force responsible for radioactive decays. These bosons are produced in abundance at the LHC and ATLAS physicists have now precisely measured their production rates using 13 TeV proton-proton collision data recorded in 2015.

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Weighing in on the top quark mass

15th June 2016 – ATLAS has released a new precise measurement of the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle.

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