Sunday
Express: Staff from
ATLAS, the biggest
particle-physics experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider,
have recorded an album for Christmas. Chris Thomas, an ATLAS
technician who masterminded and produced the
Resonance double CD, found a wealth of musical talent
among the 3000 ATLAS physicists, technicians, and support staff
in Switzerland. One track on
Resonance is the "Atlas Boogie," a bluesy introduction
to the search for the Higgs boson, or “god particle."
Most of
Resonance’s 36 tracks are not inspired by
science, however, but are a mixture of cover songs and original
compositions and range over rock, folk, classical, and
Latin.
