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The physicists are scrambling like Spiderman, ducking under waterfalls of cables and tubes and crawling into hidden room-size cavities stuffed with electronics. They are getting ready to see the Universe born again.
Dennis Overbye, The New York Times
The massive ATLAS detector takes shape under the French-Swiss border. It will help physicists discover how the universe works by observing it at its smallest scale.
Joel Achenbach, National Geographic
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ATLAS is a particle
physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the headquarters of
CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva,
Switzerland. This new atom smasher, the result of more than eighteen
years of research, design and construction is a 7000 tonne behemoth of
metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips, with 27km of
underground tunnels and thousands of magnets operating at below minus
270° Celsius that produces particles for ATLAS to observe. Protons,
travelling at nearly the speed of light, collide within the heart of
ATLAS, sending out showers of debris to recreate 30 million times a
second the conditions that existed millionths of a second after the Big
Bang, the event that many physicists believe set our universe in
motion.
The ATLAS experiment is the result of a Herculean collaboration
of more than 2000 engineers and physicists from 36 countries that was
designed to find a particle called the Higgs boson, one of the last
remaining pieces of the puzzle that describes how our universe works.
This is the fully-documented story of the fascinating journey of these
passionate scientists as they toiled in cramped spaces and at dizzy
heights to complete an extraordinary feat of engineering that may
change our understanding of how our universe came into being.
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