Tag: LS2
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Taking ATLAS apart to build its future
In the first weeks of Long Shutdown 3, ATLAS entered a decisive new phase. Over the next four years, the collaboration will dismantle major parts of the detector and install new tracking, timing, trigger and infrastructure systems for the High-Luminosity LHC. Its technical coordination team reveals the intricate planning, tension and unexpected joy behind this…
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The ISOLDE Improvement Programme
The ISOLDE Improvement Programme The ISOLDE Improvement Programme (IIP) brings together a series of upgrades and consolidation activities to maintain and further develop the ISOLDE facility. The programme includes projects addressing the accelerator infrastructure, beam production, and delivery systems, and experimental facilities, with the objective of improving operational flexibility, reliability, and long-term sustainability. Among the
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MOSAIX: Designing bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel sensors for the ALICE ITS3 upgrade
MOSAIX: Designing bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel sensors for the ALICE ITS3 upgrade The ALICE detector is preparing a major upgrade to its Inner Tracking System (ITS) during LHC long shutdown 3 (2026-2030). This upgrade, called ITS3, will replace the three innermost tracking layers with three layers of cylindrical, 50 µm thick, 27 cm long, silicon
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The installation of the beam pipe at the heart of the CMS experiment
The installation of the beam pipe at the heart of the CMS experiment After several years of complex design, manufacture and planning, the CMS collaboration, in tight cooperation with experts of the CERN Technology Department-Vacuum, Surfaces, and Coating group, have been installing the new heart of the detector, the beam pipe, over the last months.
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ATLAS experiment revamps activities
ATLAS experiment revamps activities ATLAS entered the COVID-19 lock down on the 17th of March 2020; the closing of the activities was very fast and efficient. During the lock down, still many activities were performed remotely, among them the development of the firmware for two of the major Phase-I upgrade projects: the New Small Wheel
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ATLAS NSW Upgrade: preparing installation and commission of its first sector
ATLAS NSW Upgrade: preparing installation and commission of its first sector The New Small Wheel (NSW) Upgrade it the most complex and challenging Phase-1 Upgrade project of ATLAS. As all the other upgrade projects for the LHC experiments, the goal is to meet the challenges of the High-Luminosity LHC era and to cope with the