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The ATLAS Experiment for the
Large Hadron Collider is under construction at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland,
involving 34 countries all over the world.
The high energy and luminosity of the LHC offers a large range of
physics opportunities, from
the precise measurement of the properties of known objects to the
exploration of the high energy frontier.
The need to accommodate the very large spectrum of possible
physics signatures has guided the optimisation of the detector
design.
One main focus of the ATLAS program is the understanding of the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and to discover and study the Higgs particle. The Higgs particle is of critical importance in particle theories and is directly related to the concept of particle mass and therefore to all masses. Other important goals are searches for other phenomena possibly related to the symmetry breaking, such as particles predicted by supersymmetry or technicolour theories, as well as new gauge bosons and evidence for composite quarks and leptons. The investigation of CP violation in B decays and the precision measurements of W and top-quark masses and triple gauge boson couplings will also be important components of the ATLAS physics programme. |
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