Berkeley Lab engineers design and fabricate crucial new detector structures for ATLAS
Work has started on several of the large carbon composite structures that are now arriving at Berkeley Lab to be qualified before they are integrated into the ATLAS Experiment, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Several critical elements of ATLAS – including data acquisition electronics and silicon detector modules – are being designed, engineered, and fabricated by a collaboration of engineers and researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Engineering and Physics Divisions. Their work on upgrading the ATLAS Inner Detector is planned to coincide with the LHC's upcoming luminosity upgrade, and the detector upgrade will be optimized to take advantage of the additional brightness in the collider, increasing the data rate by nearly ten-fold. During this coordinated process, the detector will also be refurbished and enhanced, after over 15 years of running.
