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Brookhaven and ATLAS
Brookhaven physicists and engineers are participating in one of the most ambitious scientific projects in the world—helping to operate a machine the size of a seven-story building that will open new frontiers in the pursuit of knowledge about elementary particles and their interactions. The machine, dubbed ATLAS, is designed to detect particles created by proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. One of its main goals is to look for a particle called the Higgs boson, which gives mass to the basic building blocks of all matter. The high-energy collisions within ATLAS may also offer breakthrough insights into new physics theories that provide a better understanding of the origin of the universe. More...
Design & Construction
Brookhaven scientists and engineers designed and constructed 20 of the 1,200 superconducting magnets for the LHC and built key parts of the ATLAS detector. More...
Computing
Brookhaven Lab is the sole Tier-1 computing facility for ATLAS in the United States, and the largest ATLAS computing center worldwide. More...
Future Upgrades
Much of the work for the U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) uses Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) as a “test bed” for the beam-based development of devices destined for the LHC More..
