Editing ATLAS experiment (section)

===ATLAS Collaboration===

The ATLAS Collaboration, the international group of physicists belonging to different universities and research centres who built and run the detector, was formed in 1992 when the proposed EAGLE (Experiment for Accurate Gamma, Lepton and Energy Measurements) and ASCOT (Apparatus with Super Conducting Toroids) collaborations merged their efforts to build a single, general-purpose particle detector for a new [[particle accelerator]], the [[Large Hadron Collider]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.cern.ch/archives/isad/isaatlas.html |title=ATLAS Collaboration records |access-date=2007-02-25 |publisher=CERN Archive |archive-date=2007-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101230746/http://library.cern.ch/archives/isad/isaatlas.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> At present, the ATLAS Collaboration involves 6,003 members, out of which 3,822 are [[physicist]]s (last update: June 26, 2022) from 257 institutions in 42 countries.<ref name=fact_sheets/><ref name=collaboration/>