ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The experiment is designed to take advantage of the unprecedented energy available at the LHC and observe phenomena that involve highly massive particles which were not observable using earlier lower-energy accelerators. ATLAS was one of the two LHC experiments involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012. It was also designed to search for evidence of theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. This image shows the eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter in the centre.Photograph credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN
I grew up in Heber-Overgaard, Arizona. I moved to Phoenix, Arizona at age 10. Due to living with such an abundance of nature at my finger tips, today I am a fan of the outdoors and all of the creatures that share it. I have a fondness for the following categories...
Mogollon Monster - My first Wiki article of which I greatly enjoyed researching and writing. I personally want to thank Plazak and ChildofMidnight for helping to edit and shape it into a wiki friendly page :)