Abstract
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will extend the frontiers of Particle Physics to new regimes of energy, allowing the TeV scale to be explored. A diverse number of processes in the context of the Standard Model has been used to guide the project and pre-requisites of the ATLAS (AToroidal LHC ApparatuS) detector. Designed to collide protons at a c.m. energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 14 TeV, the LHC w…