US scientists collaborated with an international team to install a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider’s biggest detector, the ATLAS ...

The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going on tour. Not the real one of course, but a 150 kg wooden replica of the cathedral-sized detector. Technicians at the DESY ...

A physicist at Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute has recreated one of the two main particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider out of Lego - and the replica machine is to scale with the tiny Lego ...

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is currently the Large Hadron Collider bridging ...

The Department of Energy has given its first stage of approval for plans for the United States to participate in detector upgrades at the Large Hadron Collider. The US Department of Energy recently ...

The ATLAS collaboration, the large research consortium involved in analyzing data collected by the ATLAS particle collider at CERN, recently observed the electroweak production of two Z bosons and two ...

Protons and neutrons—the building blocks of matter—belong to a huge class of particles called hadrons. Hadrons are composite ...

Four main experiments have been designed and constructed for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine: ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE. ATLAS and CMS are large general-purpose experiments. LHCb will study b ...