Explore the ATLAS Fact Sheets
Enjoy these free-to-download fact sheet by the ATLAS Collaboration. Explore the ATLAS detector and find more about its components, the software computing infrastructure, and the trigger and data acquisition systems. Find the Easter versions of the Fact Sheets here.
Calorimeters measure the energy of particles created in high-energy LHC collisions.
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ATLAS is the largest detector ever constructed for a particle collider: 46 metres long and 25 metres in diameter.
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ATLAS uses two different types of superconducting magnet systems – solenoid and toroids.
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The outer layer of the ATLAS experiment is made of muon detectors. They identify and measure the momenta of muons.
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Many cutting-edge technologies developed for the ATLAS Experiment have found new applications in other fields.
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The ATLAS Collaboration is one of the largest scientific collaborations, composed of around 5700 physicists, engineers, technicians, students and administrators.
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The Inner Detector is the innermost part of ATLAS to see the decay products of the collisions, so it is very compact and highly sensitive.
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