Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
ATLAS Deputy Physics Coordinator, Pamela Ferrari, shares her expectations for Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a new era for CERN and particle physics research.
On 5 July 2022, the LHC officially kicked off its third period of operation (Run 3). The LHC is colliding proton beams at a world-record-breaking energy of 13.6 tera electron volts (TeV). The higher beam energy and intensity of Run 3 will allow the ATLAS experiment to push the very limits of its physics research.
The ATLAS Experiment aspires to be faster and much more efficient in Run 3. By the end of Run 3, we anticipate tripling the dataset available for analysis. In addition, the higher collision energy will further the reach of the physics programme (for example, the production rate of Higgs boson pairs will increase by 11% relative to Run 2).
The upgraded ATLAS detector, trigger, software/computer systems and analysis algorithms will provide opportunities to search for new phenomena, such as feebly interacting or long-lived particles, and to test the Standard Model with ever greater precision. ATLAS will also be able to expand the reach into rare processes like Higgs boson decays into muon pairs, the production of Higgs boson pairs, triple gauge bosons and quadruple top quarks.
Learn more: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Press-Statement/Run3-first-collisions
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ATLAS Deputy Physics Coordinator, Pamela Ferrari, shares her expectations for Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a new era for CERN and particle physics research.
On 5 July 2022, the LHC officially kicked off its third period of operation (Run 3). The LHC is colliding proton beams at a world-record-breaking energy of 13.6 tera electron volts (TeV). The higher beam energy and intensity of Run 3 will allow the ATLAS experiment to push the very limits of its physics research.
The ATLAS Experiment aspires to be faster and much more efficient in Run 3. By the end of Run 3, we anticipate tripling the dataset available for analysis. In addition, the higher collision energy will further the reach of the physics programme (for example, the production rate of Higgs boson pairs will increase by 11% relative to Run 2).
The upgraded ATLAS detector, trigger, software/computer systems and analysis algorithms will provide opportunities to search for new phenomena, such as feebly interacting or long-lived particles, and to test the Standard Model with ever greater precision. ATLAS will also be able to expand the reach into rare processes like Higgs boson decays into muon pairs, the production of Higgs boson pairs, triple gauge bosons and quadruple top quarks.
Learn more: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Press-Statement/Run3-first-collisions
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Follow the ATLAS Experiment:
Twitter: twitter.com/ATLASexperiment
Facebook: facebook.com/ATLASexperiment
Instagram: instagram.com/ATLASExperiment
