ATLAS at UiO - Introduction
The ATLAS experiment (A
Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of two general
proton proton experiments to run at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the
new accelerator which is replacing the Large Electron Positron collider
(LEP) at CERN.
The aim of this experiment is to explore the fundamental particles and
forces of nature. Of particular importance is the investi-gation of the
electroweak symmetry breaking. This includes the search for Higgs particles,
supersymmetric particles, extra dimensions etc.
To build ATLAS more than 2000 physicists from more than 150 different
universities and research institutes from all over the world participate.
The experiment is scheduled to start taking data in 2006.
The ATLAS activities at the University of Oslo comprise physics studies,
detector building and GRID/Computing involvement.