At 46 m long, 25 m high and 25 m wide, the 7000tonne atlas detector is the largest volume particle detector ever constructed. Bnls george iakovidis gets spotlighted at cern details. A number of approaches are being used in atlas reconstruction software, aiming to. Atlas experiment releases tev open data for science education news atlas 20190718 by cms collaboration. Webhome atlas collaboration at cern has just released the first open dataset from the large hadron collider s lhc highestenergy run at teraelectronvolts tev. Commissioning of the atlas reconstruction software with first data. Complex dataacquisition and computing systems are then used to analyse the collision events recorded. The program you will download runs simulation software inside a virtual machine hosted by your computer.
The atlas collaborations current approach on the release of datasets is intended for education, training and outreach activities around the world. So whether you have an hour or a semester, try your hand at analysing the tev protonproton. Commissioning of the atlas reconstruction software with. The virtual machine image is 500mb but is only downloaded once. Doe office of science statement on digital data management link. The commissioning of the atlas detector at the large hadron collider lhc has been the focus of an extensive program over. Atlas releases new measurements of higgs boson properties the new results were presented at todays cern lhc seminar. The four major components of the atlas detector are the inner detector, the calorimeter, the muon spectrometer and the magnet system. Atlas open data provides open access to protonproton collision data at the lhc for educational purposes. Atlas experiment at cern exploring the secrets of our. From software development, to data processing and storage, networks, support for the lhc and nonlhc experimental programme, automation and controls, as well as services for the accelerator complex and for the whole laboratory and its users, computing is at the heart of cerns infrastructure. Maria girone discusses the current challenges of capturing, storing, and processing the large volumes of data generated by the large hadron collider experiments. The project is crossplatform, and runs on a variety of hardware configurations. The atlas experiment at the cern large hadron collider.
User has to run only over relevant stream rather than all atlas data. Howie day records love song collide at the lhc details. Take a virtual walk around the atlas detector in the cavern at point 1 of the lhc. Lhcdatastorage opportunity for discovery with early data.
Each workunit downloads a small set of input data and runs for approx 1 to 2 hours depending on the computers processor speed. So whether you have an hour or a semester, try your hand at analysing the tev protonproton collision data recorded by the atlas experiment. Over a billion particle interactions take place in the atlas detector every second, a data rate equivalent to 20 simultaneous telephone conversations held by every person on. In order to fulfil that objective, the atlas open data project was created. Atlas policy for data management which should be referenced in any proposal to the doe ohep can be found here.
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