The project is run within an international collaboration of more than 170 laboratories at CERN. Participation of the Czech Republic is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR.
The ATLAS experiment in the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN is a unique experimental device designed to study physics distinctively beyond the present Standard model of elementary particles. The apparatus is operating at the LHC accelerator, where two beams of protons moving at opposite directions collide at energies which in the next couple of years will reach the value of 7 TeV per beam. The energy will thus be seven times higher (and the intensity of each beam 20 times bigger) than those of the most powerful accelerator before LHC – the Tevatron at the Fermilab, USA. The construction of the ATLAS detector had been completed in 2008 and experiments started to take data at the end of 2009.
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