Editorial use only. This image may not be used to state or imply endorsement by CERN of any product, activity or service MODEL RELEASED. ATLAS detecto

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Editorial use only. This image may not be used to state or imply endorsement by CERN of any product, activity or service MODEL RELEASED. ATLAS detector, CERN. ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) is one of six detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. It has eight toroids (grey) that generate the magnetic field needed to confine the particles. ATLAS is a broad-range detector that measures all particles and physical processes that emerge during proton collision within the LHC. The LHC is designed to create high energy substances, such as quark-gluon plasma, thought to exist very early in the universe's history. Photographed in November 2005.

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