Research

Where the tools for discovery get made

Most of the work here is building the instruments a search needs, and then running the search. The five themes below cover those methods, and their initials happen to spell FORGE.

The first four are methods. The last is what they are built for. Each one was developed for a specific measurement and then released, so that other groups can adapt it for theirs.

An ATLAS collision event display: a Higgs boson candidate decaying to two b-quarks, produced with a W boson.
ATLAS candidate event pp → H(→bb) + W(→µν), Run 338712, Event 335908183. ATLAS Experiment © 2017 CERN. The mark in the header of this site is traced from the end-on view of this same event, with the track angles measured from the display rather than drawn freehand.