# ATLAS Experiment
**Domain:** Particle Physics / Scientific Instrumentation / Distributed Research
**Doc Type:** Research Program Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[CERN]], [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Distributed Intelligence]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
**ATLAS** is a general-purpose particle-physics experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Its detector and international collaboration study collisions across questions including the Higgs boson, dark matter candidates and physics beyond established models.
## Corpus Context
ATLAS is a useful example of knowledge produced by a human-machine assemblage: no unaided observer can perceive its events, and no single contributor contains the whole experimental system. Detection, calibration, computation and collective interpretation form a [[Co-Creative Substrate|co-creative substrate]].
## Directory Context
This experiment is indexed through [[CERN]] in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [ATLAS Experiment](https://atlas.cern/)