In 1993 the US Congress voted to cut off funding for what would have been a far bigger,
more powerful project than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Superconducting Super …

In January 1987 the Reagan administration decided to proceed with the construction of the
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) on a Greenfield site in the vicinity of Waxahachie …

After twenty-five years of preparation, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, is finally
running its intensive scientific experiments into high-energy particle physics. These …

Big Science is far bigger today than it was in the mid-twentieth century. As high-energy
physics (HEP) probes phenomena at ever-higher energy ranges, the cost of building the …

The collective effort required to develop, build, and run the ATLAS detector has been
structured as a 'collaboration', a distributed problem-solving network characteristic of Big …

This book is written by the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to
document and reflect on its more than 25 years of history. It covers all aspects of this global …

The ATLAS Collaboration is an unusually complex organization that brings together over
3,000 scientists and engineers from 174 institutions spread out across 38 countries. As we …

All big science projects will generate a raft of engineering challenges. And engineering at
the frontier of new technology demanded by big science will draw in top engineers on site, in …

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) played a crucial enabling role in three
distinct domains in the development of the ATLAS detector:(1) simulating progressively …

The Education and Outreach project of ATLAS—a new participant in physics education
Page 1 Physics Education The Education and Outreach project of ATLAS—a new …