Information for visitors

Articles in the popular press

1. A fairly recent and detailed National Geographic article
2. A collection of NY Times articles
3. An older, but detailed New York Times article
4. An older, but very good New Yorker article
5. Scientific American Article
6. CERN's list of current popular-press articles
7. A nice collection of CERN photos published by the Boston Globe

Websites

1. The ATLAS Public website has a lot of general information.
2. Videos on YouTube posted by CERN
3. BBC video (5 part series)
   part1 part2 part3 part4 part5

ATLAS- or CERN-produced documents

1. LHC FAQ
   This is a very nice document published by CERN that introduces the general-public to the physics that the LHC will explore and to the accelerator and the detectors.
2. ATLAS "fact sheets." These give lots of by-the-numbers summaries of the experiment.