• ATLAS Experiment Reports Its First Physics Results from the LHC

  [March 2010]

• First collisions in ATLAS

  [November 2009]

• LHC beams and events back in ATLAS

  [November 2009]

• ATLAS Preparing for Collisions in Late-2009

  [Feburary 2009]

• Multimedia contest launched

  [May 2009]

• Higgs finds the Higgs at RAL

  [April 2009]

• A comic takes on CERN

  [March 2009]

• Tinseltown pays us a visit

  [February 2009]

• A Wall ATLAS

  [February 2009]

• ATLAS physicist voted sexiest in the world

  [February 2009]

• The Wanderer Returns

  [January 2009]

• ATLAS Preparing for Collisions in Mid-2009

  [December 2008]

• Rock You in the Head

  [November 2008]

• CERN releases analysis of LHC incident

  [October 2008]

• First beam and first events in ATLAS

  [September 2008]

• Incident in LHC will cause delay

  [September 2008]

• Football and modern art for ATLAS

  [September 2008]

• ATLAS gets the Hollywood treatment

  [June 2008]

• Socio-Economic Perspectives on ATLAS

  [June 2008]

• From Exotic Particles to Possible Solutions for Blindness

  [June 2008]

• German Chancellor Merkel visits ATLAS

  [June 2008]

• Great Interest as ATLAS and CERN Open to Public

  [May 2008]

• Argentina, Chile and Colombia Join ATLAS Experiment

  [April 2008]

• Atlas.ch surpasses 1 million hits

  [April 2008]

• ATLAS completes world's largest jigsaw puzzle

  [Feburary 2008]

• Intrepid Rappellers Descend Into ATLAS Cavern

  [Feburary 2008]

• Cables: The 'blood vessels' of ATLAS

  [January 2008]

• Progress on Toroid Magnets

  [December 2007]

• Rolling Stone Brazil visits ATLAS

  [December 2007]

• Dress Rehearsal for ATLAS debut

  [December 2007]

• Norwegian teachers visit ATLAS

  [December 2007]

• ATLAS remembers Turkish colleagues who perished in plane crash.

  [December 2007]

• Pixel detector lowered into the cavern and installation completed.

  [28 June 2007]

• ESA/NASA astronaut Christer Fuglesang visits the ATLAS cavern.
  

  [14 June 2007]

• The complex and spectacular lowering into the cavern of the huge end-cap toroid magnet on side A.
  

  [13 June 2007]

• The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, visited CERN and the ATLAS cavern on 3 June.

  [3 June 2007]

• The first inner detector end-cap, with both the TRT and SCT, was lowered into the cavern.

  [24 May 2007]

• Development of the ATLAS control room

  [Dec. 2006]

• The ATLAS Detector safety system

  [Dec. 2006]

• The ATLAS analysis model

  [Dec. 2006]

• The Pixels system: last but not late!

  [Dec. 2006]

• First combined SCT/TRT end-cap cosmic rays seen in building SR1

  [Dec. 2006]

• End-cap toroid magnets assembly shows great progress

  [Dec. 2006]

• Triggering and measuring bent cosmic muon tracks with the muon spectrometer barrel for the first time

  [Dec. 2006]

• ATLAS physicist runs her first marathon

  [Dec. 2006]

• ATLAS barrel toroid reaches full field

  [Dec. 2006]

• Professor Stephen Hawking visits the ATLAS cavern

  [Nov. 2006]

• When underground music meets underground!

  [Nov. 2006]

• First physics pulses in the barrel electromagnetic (liquid argon) calorimeter with cosmic rays

  [Nov. 2006]

• Progress on the level-1 calorimeter trigger

  [Nov. 2006]

• ATLAS copies its first PetaByte out of CERN

  [Oct. 2006]

• Inner detector barrel installed in cryostat

  [Oct. 2006]

• First operation of the central solenoid magnet

  [Oct. 2006]

• Successful mapping of the solenoid magnet

  [Oct. 2006]

• Progress with the muon spectrometer end-cap

  [Oct. 2006]

• A major milestone for the inner detector project

  [May. 2006]

• The delivery of the final components of the ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT)

  [May. 2006]

• The SCT barrel inserted in the TRT

  [May. 2006]

• New phase is started for the end-cap toroid assembly

  [May. 2006]

• Barrel toroid magnets now mechanically self-supporting

  [Dec. 2005]

• The central "barrel" calorimeter was moved from its assembly point at the side of the ATLAS cavern to the centre of the detector

  [Dec. 2005]

• First endcap calorimeter assembled

  [Dec. 2005]

• The installation of the hundreds of muon chambers in the central (barrel) detector has started

  [Dec. 2005]

• The installation and connection of the final services to the inside of the detector has been started

  [Dec. 2005]

• All key objectives for the end of 2005 have been reached

  [Dec. 2005]

• End of repair of QRL, reinstallation of sector 7-8 and cold test of sub-sectors A and B

  [Dec. 2005]

• Cool-down of full sector 8-1

  [Dec. 2005]

• Pressure test of sector 4-5

  [Dec. 2005]

• Endurance test of full octant of power converters

  [Dec. 2005]

• Magnet installation rate is now close to 20/week, with more than 200 installed

  [Dec. 2005]

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