Searching for Supersymmetry in the Universe with the A Toroidal Lagre Hadron Collider ApparatuS (ATLAS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

澳大利亚研究人员自20世纪90年代初以来一直参与大型强子对撞机的环形拉格尔强子对撞机装置（ATLAS）实验。他们在ATLAS硬件设计和构建，软件开发以及数据计算网格的部署中发挥了重要作用，从而为围绕宇宙基本定律和起源的突破性发现铺平了道路。通过搜索希格斯玻色子，许多粒子物理学模型都需要这种粒子，但到目前为止还没有观察到，这项研究体现了这条发现之路的最后一步。围绕大型强子对撞机发现潜力的巨大宣传将提高澳大利亚基础研究的国际知名度和地位。

Australian researchers have been involved with the A Toroidal Lagre Hadron Collider ApparatuS (ATLAS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider since the early 1990's. They have had significant roles in ATLAS hardware design and construction, software development, and in the deployment of a data computing grid, thereby paving the way for groundbreaking discoveries surrounding the fundamental laws and origin of our universe. By performing a search for Higgs bosons, required in many models of particle physics but which have so far not been observed, this research embodies the final step on this road to discovery. The huge publicity surrounding the discovery potential at the Large Hadron Collider will raise the international awareness and stature of basic research in Australia.