Michael Kobel (Dresden):

Status and Physics at ATLAS

Abstract:

The talk will review the status of the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, which is successfully taking data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV since spring 2010.
Alone in 2011 more than 5 fb^-1 of data have been recorded, and about half of them have been analyzed so far. An overview will be given of the main physics goals of ATLAS and their role in understanding the fundamental forces and building blocks of the universe on the way to complete and maybe extend the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
The most recent experimental results of ATLAS in the fields of W, Z and top quark production will be given, and searches for Higgs Bosons and other new particles within and beyond the Standard Model will be presented.

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