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Explore educational physics "cheat sheets" developed by researchers at the ATLAS Collaboration, ideal to help with all those physics terms you want to know more about. With these sheets, you'll explore concepts from the Standard Model to conservation laws.

Cross Section and Luminosity
This sheet defines cross section and luminosity, presents examples of LHC cross sections, and introduces the method used to determine number of events.
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Signal and Background
This sheet defines signal and background and presents some common strategies for increasing the signal-to-background ratio.
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ATLAS Experiment cheat sheets are free to download for personal and educational use. Content Copyright: ATLAS Experiment © 2021 CERN
- Text and project development: Elise Le Boulicaut and Valerie Buxbaum on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration
- Translations: Elise Le Boulicaut (French), Daniel Trujillo (French, Spanish), Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Spanish)
- Background image: Ana María Rodríguez Vera on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration