The
ATLAS experiment is being constructed by 2000 physicists and engineers participating
from more than 150 universities and laboratories in 36 countries.
It will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
CERN . The detector is
due to begin operation in the year 2008. The primary purpose of the detector
will be studies of the origin of mass at the electroweak scale,
therefore the detector has been designed for sensitivity to the largest possible
Higgs mass range. The detector will also be used for studies of top quark decays
and supersymmetry searches.
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