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Description
The Phase-2 upgrades for the ATLAS and CMS detectors are the next big upgrade projects imminent. To cope with the challenging conditions for High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the current trackers for both experiments will be replaced by new sub-detectors: the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) and the CMS Tracker. The all-silicon detectors are segmented in the inner regions by the ITk Pixel and the CMS Inner Tracker populated with pixel sensors and the outer regions by the ITk Strip and CMS Outer Tracker (OT) with strip sensors.
Two of the end-caps - covering the forward regions for the HL-LHC collisions - for the ITk Strip and the CMS OT are being prepared and constructed at DESY Hamburg before shipping for installation at CERN. For fulfilling this task, teams of motivated physicists, engineers and technicians are working in DESY's Detector Assembly Facility, which are two state-of-the-art cleanrooms specifically constructed for the needs of the upgrades. Even though working on different detectors following own design approaches and across the big ATLAS and CMS collaborations, locally exchanging on knowledge, technology and methods is a big plus for the teams.
This contribution gives an overview of the status quo of the two upgrade projects, shows some insights on the local challenges for performing our quest of delivering two end-caps to CERN and finally has also an outlook for the future after the phase-2 upgrade completion in view of the DRD collaborations.