Featured Stories
First collisions in ATLAS
[November 2009]
A few days ago, loud cheers and happy faces filled the ATLAS Control Room
while the whole detector lit up: protons are back at the experiment's door,
and everybody forgot in a second the long year of waiting for the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) to resume operation.
LHC beams and events back in ATLAS
[November 2009]
Loud cheers and happy faces fill the ATLAS Control Room while the whole detector lights up: protons are back today at the experiment's door, and everybody forgets in a second the long year of waiting for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to resume operation.
ATLAS Preparing for Collisions in Late-2009
[Feburary 2009]
On 9 February 2009, CERN announced a new schedule for the LHC that envisions collisions in late October 2009 with an almost continuous run until autumn 2010. This is exciting news for ATLAS and the other experiments. It means that within a year’s horizon ATLAS will have substantial data allowing full physics analyses and even a possibility of new discoveries.
