Physical Society Colloquium

The ATLAS Project at the Large Hadron Collider:
Exploring the High-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics

Peter Jenni

CERN

At the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project is well advanced. First proton-proton collisions at the high-energy frontier are expected for the second half of 2007. In parallel to the collider construction the general-purpose detector ATLAS is being constructed and assembled by a world-wide collaboration of more than 150 Universities and Laboratories, including several teams from Canadian Universities and TRIUMF. ATLAS will explore new domains of particle physics. The status of LHC and ATLAS will be discussed, as well as the rich prospects for fundamental physics results that are anticipated.