Four CO2 cooling plants and accumulators in the service cavern of CMS in May 2025. (Photo by Jérôme Daguin) During recent shutdown periods, CERN engineers and technicians — in collaboration with the ATLAS and CMS teams — began installing the…
Read moreIntroduction The ATLAS ITk (Inner TracKer) is a new all-silicon tracker that will replace the existing ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) to meet the requirements imposed by the high-radiation and high-hit occupancy environments of the HL-LHC (High-…
Read moreThe study of the polarisation of vector boson scattering (VBS) processes provides a unique test of the Higgs mechanism’s role in taming high-energy electroweak interactions, making it indispensable for fundamental physics for the last decades. As…
Read moreThe unification of the electromagnetic and weak-nuclear forces into an electroweak theory was one of the major breakthroughs of 20th century particle physics. In the 1960s, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam proposed that these two…
Read moreCandidate event for the ZH → μμ cc process, where a Z boson and a Higgs boson decay to two muons (red tracks) and two charm-tagged jets (blue cones). (Image: ATLAS collaboration) In the summer of 2024, the ATLAS collaboration released two new…
Read moreIt has been more than ten years since the discovery of the first scalar particle at the electroweak scale. This particle was discovered at the LHC in 2012, and it was quickly found to be a scalar that is compatible with the Higgs boson predicted by…
Read moreEarlier this month, the Large Hadron Collider reached an unprecedented milestone of 100 inverse femtobarns – equivalent to 10 million billion collisions – delivered to the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2024, with 28 days of proton-proton collisions…
Read moreGreat progress has been made in the ATLAS operation since the last EP news article. There we presented the fantastic Phase-I upgrades of the ATLAS detector installed during LS2, described the steps towards their commissioning, and summarized…
Read moreThe ATLAS Collaboration has announced the release of 7 billion proton–proton collision events, alongside 2 billion simulated events, in the collaboration’s first release of open data for scientific research. The open data, available through CERN’s…
Read moreThe ATLAS Collaboration at CERN,has been leading efforts to promote transparency and accessibility through its comprehensive open data initiatives. These efforts are designed to benefit researchers, educators, and the public, enhancing both…
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