Editing ATLAS experiment (section)

===General-purpose requirements===
The ATLAS detector is designed to be general-purpose. Rather than focusing on a particular physical process, ATLAS is designed to measure the broadest possible range of signals. This is intended to ensure that whatever form any new physical processes or particles might take, ATLAS will be able to detect them and measure their properties. ATLAS is designed to detect these particles, namely their masses, [[momentum]], [[energy|energies]], lifetime, charges, and [[nuclear spin]]s.

Experiments at earlier colliders, such as the [[Tevatron]] and [[Large Electron–Positron Collider]], were also designed for general-purpose detection. However, the beam energy and extremely high rate of collisions require ATLAS to be significantly larger and more complex than previous experiments, presenting unique challenges of the Large Hadron Collider.