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The ATLAS Experiment

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A substantial part of this chapter is based off of [1] for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and [2] for the A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS) detector.

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    This paragraph is directly copied from the ATLAS common coordinate system definition, as recommended by the ATLAS publications committee: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/CcordinateSystemFootnote.

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Schramm, S. (2017). The ATLAS Experiment. In: Searching for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44453-6_2

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