ATLAS

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Scientists from Brookhaven have played and continue to play key roles in the design, construction, and operation of ATLAS in its search for new discoveries about the particles and forces that shape our universe. Brookhaven is the host laboratory for U.S. collaborators on ATLAS, and our computing facility stores, processes, and distributes ATLAS data to collaborators at universities and laboratories throughout the nation. Some research at ATLAS is complementary to studies at RHIC, but a large portion of the collisions at the LHC are aimed at very different questions.