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The ATLAS Detector

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Physics with Photons Using the ATLAS Run 2 Data

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ATLAS [1] is one of the two general purpose experiments at the LHC. The detector has a cylindrical shape with a radius of 12 m and a length of 44 m. It weights approximately 7000 tons.

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Manzoni, S. (2019). The ATLAS Detector. In: Physics with Photons Using the ATLAS Run 2 Data. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24370-8_5

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