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The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Experiment

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This chapter is dedicated to the two key ingredients necessary for data analysis in high energy physics: the particle accelerator and the detector. The first part of the chapter is fully dedicated to the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), while the second part is focused on the ATLAS detector with a brief description of all the sub-detector components.

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Notes

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    The normalised transverse beam emittance represents the average spread of the beam in the momentum-position phase space transverse to the beam.

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    The beta function describes the size of the beam in the plane transverse to the beam. \(\beta ^*\) refers to this size at the interaction point.

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Di Gregorio, G. (2023). The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Experiment. In: A Beauty-ful Boson. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20013-7_2

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