New Small Wheel System Upgrade of the ATLAS experiment

6 Apr 2023, 12:00
30m
Main Auditorium (Conference Centre “Karolos Papoulias”)

Main Auditorium

Conference Centre “Karolos Papoulias”

Speaker

Theodoros Alexopoulos (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

Description

The ATLAS collaboration at LHC has endorsed the resistive Micromegas technology, along with the small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC), for the high luminosity upgrade of the first muon station in the high-rapidity region, the so called New Small Wheel (NSW) project. After the R&D, the prototyping phase, the first series production Micromegas quadruplets have been constructed and the corresponding Electronics & readout boards at all involved construction sites: in France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Greece. Both Wheels have been installed and commissioned in the ATLAS cavern collecting data during run-3.
The long process of the creation of this complicated project of 2.5M channels will be presented.

Primary author

Theodoros Alexopoulos (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

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