ATLAS Experiment

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 of 6,5 TeV per beam. The construction of the ATLAS detector had been completed in 2008 and experiments started to take data at the end of 2009. In 2012, the experiments ATLAS and CMS announced a discovery of new particle with properties of longly sought Higgs boson.