Today the ATLAS collaboration at CERN celebrates the lowering of its last large detector element. The ATLAS detector is the world's largest general-purpose particle detector, measuring 46 metres long, ...
The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going on tour. Not the real one of course, but a 150 kg wooden replica of the cathedral-sized detector. Technicians at the DESY ...
High-energy neutrinos are extremely rare particles that have so far proved very difficult to detect. Fluxes of these rare particles were first detected by the IceCube Collaboration back in 2013.
The largest superconducting magnet ever built has successfully been powered up to its operating conditions at the first attempt. Called the "Barrel Toroid" because of its shape, this magnet is a vital ...
"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is currently the Large Hadron Collider bridging ...
The ATLAS collaboration, the large research consortium involved in analyzing data collected by the ATLAS particle collider at CERN, recently observed the electroweak production of two Z bosons and two ...
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World’s most powerful particle collider upgrade enters next phase with giant cold boxes
CERN engineers have transported two gleaming cryogenic “cold boxes” deep into the tunnels of ...
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