Talk:ATLAS experiment

message: I hereby declare "Mission Accomplished!" on the request for expansion.  -- SCZenz 22:34, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission accomplished! 

message: Good job! Title might want to adjust so people can get to it easier.
PS: A collegue of mine worked on ATLAS I believe in New Mexico?
Cheers  Scott 19:36:42, 2005-08-27 (UTC)
:People work on ATLAS everywhere, more or less.. ;)   Anyway, this is the proper name of the experiment, but I will think about a helpful redirect or two, maybe one without the capital S.  -- SCZenz 20:14, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ATLAS

message: Nice pic of the pit, Reminds me of SLD AT SLAC. Time to bring the Mark detector over? It was built torched and all, assembled in Japan, then unassembled and transported by barge into SF Bay then shipped by truck down 280 to Slac, Then Reassembled retorched moved 90 degrees in the pit after assembly, in the pit of SLC then was again commissioned and operated in the 90's, now just sits there in building 752. SAD Scott 01:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nice pic of the ATLAS pit

message: Good! I don't understand half of what I just translated but I definately prefer this article to the one yesterday on the music video. Mithridates 17:30, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good! 

message: Sorry, folks: feature articles make a particularly tempting target for the vandals, I guess. I've blocked the relevant IP, but he (I'm sure it's a fourteen-year-old boy, or possibly younger) may return from a friend's house, or from school, and so I've protected the article. Let's give it a day or so. DS 13:27, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a typo in the text: "Curent CP-violation experiments". Can an admin fix that? Povmec 13:38, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. the wub "?!" 16:32, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Make that unprotected, today's featured article should remain unprotected if at all possible. The vandalism on this is no worse than normal. the wub "?!" 16:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: We appear to have two conflicting sources of the year the cyclotron was invented.
Source 1: 1931 - Nobel prize website 
Source 2: 1929 -Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory website 
Then there are several other sources that list the year as 1930. While searching through a list of reference, however, I found that the majority of dates point towards 1929, such as the Nobel prize website which also appears to be more of a reliable source (in my opinion) therefore I feel we should stick with the 1929.
Other examples of 1929:  
Looking further, into the last link I gave, it appears that while the cyclotron was invented in 1929 but was not actually put into production until 1930, which is probably where the discrepancies in the dates come from.
Also, according to PBS.com , it further explains that in 1929 Lawrence already had the idea for the cyclotron in 1929, had the go ahead to build it in 1930, and had a working one in 1931. Therefore I will edit the page to somehow include all three of these dates. CowmanTalk 20:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I just looked back at the article and found that there is only mention of the cyclotron being built - should we then just leave it at that and not include when it was invented (1929 or 1930)?. CowmanTalk 20:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year the Cyclotron was invented 

message: Is that acronym still in use? I can find it nowhere on any atlas sites, and I tought it was more or less dropped as a bit silly.
: What acronym? -- SCZenz 16:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you mean the name of the experiment, it's not used often because it is silly.  But it's still the name of the experiment, and gets mentioned every so often. -- SCZenz 16:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acronym 

message: At the LEP detectors and the CMS the charged hadrons reached the hadron calorimeter, not only the neutral hadrons and the EM calorimeter stops only the electrons and photons (and perhaphs less energetic charged hadrons). (See the LHC Slice picture at CMS article and the animation you can reach from there.) The article suggests that at the ATLAS the charged hardrons are absorbed in the EM calorimeters. I think it's not so. Could you fix it if I'm right, my English is not perfect. -- Harp 15:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you're right.  I figured just deleting the word neutral was the best fix. ;-) -- SCZenz 18:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

text: It's an idea that comes out of the theoriest of large extra dimensions as put forth by Nima Arkani-Hamed and others.  There have certainly been talks about it; although I don't know in what sense one can claim one theory is more likely than any other, I think this one is seen as a long shot.  In any case, having a source for it would be good and I'll look for it when I have the chance. -- SCZenz 18:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I linked to the only two papers on black holes I found on the CERN document server.  They both seemed pretty accessible and clearly written, but the low number of papers does seem to indicate a long shot.  — Laura Scudder ☎ 18:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Charged hadrons

message: This article states "The construction is scheduled to be completed in June, 2007.", does anyone know the current schedule for completion? I presume it's been delayed and not online yet. 58.161.49.182 14:13, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok I checked the ATLAS experiment page itself and it stated "Starting in mid-2008," which is what I'm now going to change it to. Master z0b 05:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completion schedule 

message: I had always been under the impression that particle physics experiments required vacuum in which to operate. If that is true, does CERN anticipate pumping out the entire ATLAS chamber?! Looking at the picture of ATLAS posted on [APOD] on 2008-02-25, that looks like a pretty huge space to have to reduce to vacuum! dafydd (talk) 16:28, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, it does need to be under vacuum.  No idea how long that takes to pump out.  — Laura Scudder ☎ 16:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The beam pipe is the only part in which there will be a vacuum. The pressure will be 10^-10 torr, from Atlas factsheet 5. So luckily there is no need to pump out the whole atlas cavern.  — betatim 17:06, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vacuum? 

message: I made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVrUR_SOykk from the images captured by the atlas eye. Seeing it "grow" fascinates me, almost as good as visiting it, maybe even better since the cavern has been very full for a while now. Would it be appropriate to link to it in the "External links" section? I made it to show some friends how huge atlas is. Not sure about the licensing of the images?  — betatim 17:06, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time lapse video 

message: This article is very well written and contains valuable information. Much better than what I have read in many PhD theses and on the official ATLAS website. The only thing I dislike, is the emphasis which has been given to the groups which have developed the transition radiaton detector used for tracking in the inner detector. If you have a look on publications of the ATLAS collaboration, you will see a list of thousands of individuals originating from hundreds of different institutes. So instead of focusing on the involved institutes for a single part of the ATLAS experiment, a new category should be introduced which names alls institutes and their contribution. The according information should be removed from the main text, which would also help to have a clear structure which is easy to read.
May I add that this section is incomplete, incorrect and contains ill defined statements. TIn my opinion it should be removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.141.84.28 (talk) 15:31, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hall of fame 

message: Congratulations, editors - this is an excellent article.  It is accessible to readers of just about all levels.  The background and history sections are readable by almost anyone and then it gets more and more into the physics.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:20, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excellent article 

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Hi, a sonification of Higgs candidate events was just uploaded (I'm embedding it here). A detailed description is at User:Cas ssc/sandbox. Perhaps we can find a way to insert it here or in some related articles? -- Daniel Mietchen (talk)  21:41, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it is useful in encyclopedic articles. --mfb (talk) 13:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sonification of Higgs candidates 

message: What has it found? Apart from a brief mention of the Higgs hidden away under "Experimental program," apparently nothing. But there's at least one other thing that I stumbled across just now, and presumably other stuff besides. It would be nice if some knowledgeable person could update the article. 79.64.186.66 (talk) 08:48, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hundreds of publications, but most of them never make it into secondary sources, and popular science reports about those that make it are usually bad. --mfb (talk) 07:03, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Findings 

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