Tag: New Small Wheel

  • New Staff Members and Fellows

    New Staff Members and Fellows

    New Staff Members and Fellows Maximilian Babeluk Hi, I’m Max. I recently joined the ALICE ITS3 team, where I work on sensor testing, functional verification, and in the future also chip design – particularly on MOSAIX. My main activities include testing and yield assessment across multiple integration levels (wafer probing to system tests), including data

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  • The ATLAS New Small Wheel – Triggering on muons and rejecting fakes

    The ATLAS New Small Wheel – Triggering on muons and rejecting fakes

    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) and Micromegas (MM).

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  • ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances

    ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances

    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 nearly ten years of design and development. The completion of

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  • ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances

    ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances

    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, to track and record data

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  • ATLAS NSW Upgrade: preparing installation and commission of its first sector

    ATLAS NSW Upgrade: preparing installation and commission of its first sector

    ATLAS 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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