Event Analysis Tools

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Amelia Event Display

High schools can use ATLAS event analysis tools - HYPATIA, HYPATIA Online, MINERVA, CAMELIA - for the interactive investigation of data collected by the experiment to make discoveries like physicists do. The aim of these tools is to give students a better understanding of how particle detectors work and the physics being studied at ATLAS. Such programmes can be run independently or in the framework of International Masterclasses.

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Event Analysis Tools

Camelia Event Display

High schools can use ATLAS event analysis tools - HYPATIA, HYPATIA Online, MINERVA - for the interactive investigation of data collected by the experiment to make discoveries like physicists do. The aim of these tools is to give students a better understanding of how particle detectors work and the physics being studied at ATLAS. Such programmes can be run independently or in the framework of International Masterclasses.

ATLAS Open Data

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ATLAS Open Data

Explore the ATLAS Open Data platform! This comprehensive educational platform guides students at university level through how to use ATLAS Open Data and the corresponding analysis tools.

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University Students
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ATLAS Open Data

ATLAS Open Data provides open access to proton-proton collision data at the LHC for educational purposes. Designed in collaboration with students and teachers, ATLAS Open Data resources are ideal for high-school, undergraduate and postgraduate students – or even enthusiastic self-learners! So whether you have an hour or a semester, try your hand at analysing the 13 TeV proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS Experiment. Create a simple histogram, write and visualise a particle-physics analysis directly from your internet browser, or explore the full resources to take a deep-dive into the ATLAS analysis framework and re-discover the Higgs boson!

Online Open Data Analysis

Online Open Data Analysis

Explore ATLAS open datasets and physics analyses directly from your browser with the help of our cloud computing resources. These "Jupyter notebooks" allow you to easily interact with the data without downloading files or writing code. If you have a CERN computing account, you can also explore these notebooks through the SWAN cloud computing service.

Offline Open Data Analysis

Offline Open Data Analysis

The best way to analyse ATLAS Open Data offline is using our "Virtual Machines". This simple set-up includes all of the 13 TeV software and tools, and can be saved directly on your hard drive. They are extremely easy to set-up and use, having been tested by students from all over the world!

Download the Open Data

Download the Open Data

All of ATLAS's open datasets and resources are available on the CERN Open Data Portal. All datasets on the portal are shared under a Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication; the data and software are assigned unique DOI identifiers to make them citable in scientific articles; and software is released under open source licenses.

8 TeV Open Data resources

8 TeV Open Data resources

ATLAS released its first open data in 2016, making public 1 fb-1 of 8 TeV data that is still in use for many individuals and institutions. One of the best tools to study ATLAS 8 TeV (and 13 TeV) Open Data is the “Histogram Analyser”, which allow users to explore physics concepts in a graphical way.

Questions or comments? Contact us.

ATLAS Open Data is made possible with support from several Open Access technologies and resources, including: Linux, Jupyter notebooks, ROOT analysis framework, ROOT JavaScript, CERN Open Data, MyBinder.org, SWAN notebooks gallery, Git!

Are you a professor or instructor using ATLAS Open Data? Send us a message and join the growing list of universities and institutions using ATLAS Open Data samples and resources in their curriculums.

ATLAS Virtual Visits

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ATLAS Virtual Visits

An ATLAS Virtual Visit connects a classroom, exhibition or other public venue with scientists located at the experiment using web-based video conferencing. It is a chance for you to have a conversation with the scientists working on ATLAS.

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2 - Education
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virtual visits
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Particle Physics Masterclasses

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Particle Physics Masterclasses

Be a particle physicist for a day by participating in the hands-on analysis of real ATLAS data. The Particle Physics Masterclasses include exercises that allow students to select events and learn key concepts of analysis. These classes are typically led by a researcher from the collaboration working with local teachers, but can be downloaded and run anywhere.

The annual International Physics Masterclasses join classrooms from around the world in a day-long programme than culminates in a videoconference for discussion and combination of results. Join an event near you.

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Secondary Students
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masterclasses
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LHC Pop-Up Book

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LHC Pop-Up Book

Discover the Large Hadron Collider in full 3D pop-up, one of the greatest adventures in science today. Engineering wizardry leaps from the page to reveal its inner workings. The book tells the story of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Book
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Primary Students
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pop-up book
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Higgs boson
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4 - low

Voyage to the Heart of Matter: the LHC Pop-Up Book

LHC Pop-Up Book

Discover the Large Hadron Collider in full 3D pop-up, one of the greatest adventures in science today. Engineering wizardry leaps from the page to reveal its inner workings. The book tells the story of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The experiment is run by 3000 scientists from 38 countries around the world, on a quest to understand what the universe is made of and how it works.

Pop-ups and illustrations by Anton Radevsky, text by Emma Sanders.

​The book is available for purchase on the CERN site (at the reception, the library and the ATLAS secretariat) and at all good bookstores, including Amazon US, Amazon UK and Waterstone (UK).


Reviews

Pop-Up Detector

Each pop-out genuinely illuminates the workings of the detector and the interactions of the particles it hopes to find.

Nature

Among popular books about particle physics, this one stands out - quite literally.

New Scientist

Emma Sanders
Open Detector

It's not difficult to come up with mind blowing facts when your subject is the Large Hadron Collider and this book is full of them.

The Times

Build Your Own (LEGO) Particle Detector

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Build Your Own (LEGO) Particle Detector

Create the ATLAS detector and the Large Hadron Collider out of LEGOs! The Build Your Own Particle Detector programme provides the plans and part lists for you to create LHC detectors at home.

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2 - Education
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Primary Students
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LEGO
detector
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3 - medium

ATLAScraft

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ATLAScraft

Enter the world of particle physics with the newly-launched ATLAScraft! Built within the wildly successful game platform Minecraft, this new world recreates the laboratory using 3D blocks. Explore the CERN campus, shrink down to the size of a particle, and even conduct their own “experiments” in educational minigames.

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2 - Education
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Game
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Primary Students
Secondary Students
Teachers
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multiplayer
detector
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2 - high