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Katarina Anthony is a reporter in the CERN communications group.
The New Small Wheel system joins the ATLAS experiment after nearly a decade of design and construction
On Friday 28 May 2021, the final "wedge" of the first ATLAS New Small Wheel was installed in the detector. This was an important milestone for the Collaboration, in preparation for the wheel’s installation in the ATLAS cavern later this summer
The 2020 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards and Thesis Awards were presented on 11 February
The ATLAS collaboration welcomes new management this month, with Andreas Hoecker (CERN) taking the lead as Spokesperson for the experiment
The new collection of 200 additional software packages make most ATLAS software open and reinforces ATLAS’s commitment to open science
The ATLAS collaboration releases full analysis likelihoods, a first for an LHC experiment
On 14 February, the ATLAS Collaboration celebrated some of its most junior members at a ceremony in CERN’s Main Auditorium
On 11 October 2018, ATLAS celebrated the outstanding achievements of its collaboration members with the Outstanding Achievement Awards
Can machine learning assist high-energy physics in discovering and characterising new particles?
Physicists from ATLAS at CERN have found first direct evidence of high energy light-by-light scattering
Dave Charlton passes the baton to new ATLAS Spokesperson Karl Jakobs
ATLAS PhD students publish dozens of outstanding theses every year. Since 2010, a few have been celebrated at the annual ATLAS Thesis Awards.