New Small Wheel
The ATLAS New Small Wheel - Triggering on muons and rejecting fakes
The New Small Wheel (NSW) [1] has been the largest Phase-1 upgrade project of ATLAS. The two innermost stations of the Endcap Muon spectrometer have been replaced with two newly built detector systems based on small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC)…
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ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances
The ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) upgrade is an ambitious project that will allow exploiting the physics opportunities of the HL-LHC. Last November, the second -and final- NSW was installed in the ATLAS detector, marking the successful outcome of…
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ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances
Group photo after the installation of the last sector of NSW-A. On the right is NSW-C with the first three sectors installed at the time. The New Small Wheel (NSW) upgrade is an ambitious project that aims to allow, along with other upgrade projects…
Read moreATLAS 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…
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