US ATLAS researchers study data collected by the ATLAS detector to:
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Understand and fill in the gaps in the Standard Model: the best model physicists have to describe the subatomic universe
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Search for explanations for open questions in particle physics such as: What is the nature of dark matter? Why is there so much more matter than antimatter in our universe?
Researchers at US universities and laboratories choose the topics they want to study and work with their international colleagues to collect, process and analyze data from the ATLAS detector.