High-energy physics is a field of research focused on developing models to describe fundamental particles and their interactions. The model used in virtually all of particle physics is called, rather uncreatively,the Standard Model.
It encompasses a wide range of disciplines and activities involving the processing, storage and transmission of information using computer systems.
Themuon spectrometer inthe Atlas experiment is used to measure the passage of muons and antimuons produced by the decay of fundamental particles that occurs during proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
Collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce particles that decay in complex ways or into other particles. The LHC’s detectors record the path of each particle as a series of electronic signals and send the data to the CERN Data Centre for digital reconstruction; the results are stored as acollision event.