A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the five particle detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, and LHCb) being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider, a new particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland. It will be 45 meters long, 25 meters in diameter, and weigh about 7,000 tons. The project involves roughly 2000 scientists and engineers at 151 institutions in 34 countries. The construction is scheduled to be completed in 2007. The experiment's goal is to make measurements of phenomena that involve highly-massive particles, especially new theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, which were not measurable at earlier lower-energy accelerators.

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Particle detector - ALICE - CMS - TOTEM - LHCb - Large Hadron Collider - Particle accelerator - CERN - Switzerland - Meter - Ton - Scientist - Engineer - 2007 - Particles - Theories - Particle physics - Standard Model

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