The story of the design and construction of one of the most significant technological wonders of the modern world that may change our understanding of matter. ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the headquarters of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland. This new atom smasher, the result of more than eighteen years of research, design and construction is a 7000 tonne behemoth of metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips. Protons, travelling at almost the speed of light, collide within the heart of ATLAS sending out showers of debris to recreate 30 million times a second the conditions that existed millionths of a second after the Big Bang. The ATLAS experiment is the result of a Herculean collaboration of more than 2000 engineers and physicists from 36 countries that was designed to find a particle called the Higgs boson, one of the last remaining pieces of the puzzle that describes how our universe works.

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"This is an excellent book to enjoy the visual splendor and the intellectual excitement of ATLAS detector." --scienceblogs.com

The physicists are scrambling like Spiderman, ducking under waterfalls of cables and tubes and crawling into hidden room-size cavities stuffed with electronics. They are getting ready to see the Universe born again. --The New York Times

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