More on the God particle Monday, August 14th, 2006
Here’s an update:
A major milestone for the Inner Detector project has been accomplished in early May as cosmic rays going through both the barrel Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) and Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) have been successfully recorded in the SR1 building on the ATLAS experimental site at CERN.  |
| The first few months of 2006 saw the delivery to CERN of the final components of the ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT), namely the completed SCT end-caps. |
| The SCT barrel was inserted in the TRT on 17 February, just missing Valentine’s day. This was a change of emphasis for the two detectors. In the preceeding months there had been a lot of focus on testing their performance. The TRT had been observing cosmic rays through several sectors of the barrel. The two detectors had to be painstakingly aligned to be concentric to within a millimetre. |
| End-cap Toroid Magnets: In building 191 the first cold mass is, after many hurdles, now completely assembled. This means a new phase is started for the End-cap Toroid assembly: the integration of the vacuum vessel with the cold mass. Im not sure if the date go live testing is still 07, but construction is still moving along. If you want to read some more about why this project is so exciting, thats a pretty good article on what the projust is This could change the entire way we think about matter! Furthermore - some you know from previous blogs on the project, the data collection and analysis for this is monstrous! |
