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ATLAS: Preparing for LHC Run2

The ATLAS teams are wrapping things up and prepare for Run 2, as Long Shutdown 1 is coming to an end. The collaboration has made major upgrades to increase the efficiency, safety, and environmental impact of the detector; 2014 was a really busy year…

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ATLAS micromegas detectors tested in T9

The upgrade of the ATLAS detector calls for a new generation of muon detectors capable of operating in a flux of collision and background particles approximately ten times larger compared to today's conditions. The new technology of micromegas…

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ATLAS LS1 considerations

Ten months passed from the beginning of this very hectic Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) and ATLAS went already through so many changes and operations, that it becomes hard to list all of them. LS1 reminds me of the construction time when many people were…

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Building an outreach application for ATLAS

Greetings, my name is Nathaniel Chandra Harjanto, a summer student of CERN Summer Studentship Programme 2013 from Indonesia, a country in South East Asia. I am part of Indonesian student group consisted of 3 persons which become the first Indonesian…

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