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A public tour of ATLAS is available at
http://atlas.ch.
The Scientific Challenge from the September 1996 U.S. ATLAS Proposal.
The US ATLAS group consists of 31 universities and 3 national laboratories.
It is participating in the design, construction, operation and physics
exploitation of a large general-purpose detector (ATLAS)
to be installed in one of the
interaction regions at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
The ATLAS detector consists of 4 major components: The inner tracker (yellow),
calorimetry (green and orange), muon spectrometer (blue) and the magnet system
(gray). The US groups (comprising of ~20% of the ATLAS institutions) are
participating in all aspects of the experiment. The detector is due to begin
operation in the year 2007. 
U.S. ATLAS Institutions
U.S.
Organization
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Last Updated: October 17, 2003 : 10:29 am EDT