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The ATLAS detector is one of the two multi-purpose experiments located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and is expected to collect first collision data in summer 2009. Due to the large top-quark production cross-section the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-13 J. Schieck

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine at CERN was designed and built primarily to find or exclude the existence of the Higgs boson, for which a large amount of data is needed by the LHC experiments. This requires operation at high…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 R. Bailey

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been successfully delivering proton-proton collision data at the unprecedented center of mass energy of 13 TeV. An upgrade is planned to increase the instantaneous luminosity delivered by the LHC in what…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-10 Peilian Liu

The Standard Model of particle physics is extremely well tested and yet is not believed to be a theory of everything. Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of new particles. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-27 Shoaib Khalid

The quest to understand the fundamental building blocks of nature and their interactions is one of the oldest and most ambitious of human scientific endeavors. CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represents a huge step forward in this quest.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-03 Brian Bockelman , Peter Elmer , Gordon Watts

The Large Hadron Collider LHC is a top quark factory: due to its high design luminosity, LHC will produce about 200 millions of top quarks per year of operation. The large amount of data will allow to study with great precision the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 Marcello Barisonzi

This note summarizes many detailed physics studies done by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations for the LHC, concentrating on processes involving the production of high mass states. These studies show that the LHC should be able to elucidate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-27 The ATLAS Collaboration , the CMS Collaboration , J. G. Branson , D. Denegri , I. Hinchliffe , F. Gianotti , F. E. Paige , P. Sphicas

The investigation of the electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the primary tasks of the experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The potential of the ATLAS experiment for the discovery of the Higgs boson(s) in Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Richter-Was

Particle accelerators have enabled forefront research in high energy physics and other research areas for more than half a century. Accelerators have directly contributed to 26 Nobel Prizes in Physics since 1939 as well as another 20 Nobel…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Javier Resta-López

The Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) is a proposed upgrade to the LHC, to provide high energy, high luminosity electron-proton collisions to run concurrently with Phase 2 of the LHC. The baseline design of a detector for the LHeC is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Peter Kostka , Alessandro Polini , David M. South

One of the options for an accelerator beyond the LHC is a hadron collider with higher energy. Work is going on to explore accelerator technologies that would make such a machine feasible. This workshop concentrated on the physics and…

Three experiments, among the LHC project, are getting ready to explore the b quark flavour sector. While ATLAS and CMS are general purpose experiments, where the study of B mesons is going to proceed in parallel with the Higgs boson and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-09-03 A. Sarti

The quest to understand the fundamental building blocks of nature and their interactions is one of the oldest and most ambitious of human scientific endeavors. Facilities such as CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represent a huge step…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Peter Elmer , Mark Neubauer , Michael D. Sokoloff

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started operation a few months ago. The machine will deliver proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at energies as high as sqrt(s)=14 TeV and luminosities up to L~10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}, never…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-03 David d'Enterria

The searches for new particles that could be constituents of the dark matter in the universe are an essential part of the physics program of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. An overview of recent dark matter candidate searches…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-18 Marta Felcini

Boosted objects - particles whose transverse momentum is greater than twice their mass - are becoming increasingly important as the LHC continues to explore energies in the TeV range. The sensitivity of searches for new phenomena beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-14 Janna Katharina Behr

We in the physics community expect the LHC to uncover new physics in the next few years. The character and energy scale of the new physics remain unclear, but it is likely that data from the LHC will need to be complemented by information…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Ronald Lipton

The ATLAS detector at CERN will provide a high-resolution longitudinally-segmented calorimeter and precision tracking for the upcoming study of heavy ion collisions at the LHC (sqrt(s_NN)=5520 GeV). The calorimeter covers |eta|<5 with both…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Steinberg

The ATLAS and CMS experiments are now in their final installation phase and will be soon ready to study the physics of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC, by producing 2 $t\bar{t}$ events per second, will provide…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-06-13 Pamela Ferrari

The ATLAS experiment is designed to study the proton-proton collisions produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Liquid argon sampling calorimeters are used for all electromagnetic calorimetry as well as hadronic calorimetry in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-05 Nikiforos Nikiforou