• Listen to the decay of a god particle

    The Higgs Boson is dubbed the ‘God Particle’ because it is thought to give mass to all other particles. It doesn’t stick around long enough to be seen by the ATLAS detector, but we can capture its aftermath...

    when protons collide

    At the LHC we are smashing protons together at energies so high that the inside of the ATLAS detector will resemble the universe at the first moments after the big bang...

    sweep the detector

    The ATLAS detector is made up of concentric cylinders, with each cylinder being designed to identify and measure different types of particles.

    sounds library

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