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ATLAS Experiment Searches for the Forces That Shaped the Universe
The ATLAS experiment is being constructed by 2000 physicists and engineers participating from more than 150 universities and laboratories in 36 countries. ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Starting later in 2008, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS will learn about the basic forces that have shaped our universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, microscopic black holes, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the universe.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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ATLAS Experiment Searches for the Forces That Shaped the Universe
The ATLAS experiment is being constructed by 2000 physicists and engineers participating from more than 150 universities and laboratories in 36 countries. ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Starting later in 2008, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS will learn about the basic forces that have shaped our universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, microscopic black holes, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the universe.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
XBD200604-00147-32.TIF