"The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier"

 

 

 

After  more than two years of consolidation and preparatory work by the accelerator and detector  communities,  the  Large  Hadron  Collider  is  renewing  its  exploration  at the  new high-energy  frontier  of  13  TeV  center-of-mass  energy,  searching  for  new  particles  and interactions beyond the Higgs boson.  Highlights of recent results from the 8 TeV data and the present 13 TeV data collected by the  ATLAS  experiment  will  be  discussed,  as  well  as  future  prospects  in  confronting theories with data.