CERN-RRB-2014-070

CERN-RRB-2014-070
ATLAS Resources Review Board, October 13, 2014
For RRB information (2014)
ATLAS Full Design Luminosity Detector Activities
Status Report 2014
Introduction
The ATLAS management, supported by the ATLAS
Executive and Collaboration Boards, kindly invites the RRB
to take note of the 2014 status report for the Full Design
Luminosity activities.
T
he initial ATLAS construction period finished by the end of 2008. The
initial detector configuration was determined in 2002, following an
updated financial plan endorsed by the RRB at that time. As described in
the Cost to Completion (CtC) plan (CERN-RRB-2002-114 rev.), original
CORE items worth some 30 MCHF were staged to liberate financing to bridge the
gap between cost to completion (CtC) and available firm financial pledges. It was
understood that once the CtC budget of 72.6 MCHF was fully pledged, the
deferred funds would be returned to complete the Full Design Luminosity (FDL)
detector, as defined in the Technical Proposal (CERN/LHCC/94-43). While
waiting for remaining pledges and the deferred funds to become available,
related planning started in 2009. Latest progress was reported in the April 2014
RRB (CERN-RRB-2014-020).
The completion of the Full Design Luminosity detector has been progressing well
and on schedule w.r.t. to the overall planning of the substantial maintenance and
consolidation campaign carried out during the Long Shutdown (LS1). ATLAS
expects to be ready with a fully completed and consolidated detector for data
taking in Run 2, starting in spring 2015, when the LHC will provide colliding
beams at 13-14 TeV center-of-mass energy, and is expected to reach, and even to
surpass eventually, the nominal design luminosity.
1. Remaining FDL Detector activities
As reported in the April 2014 RRB (CERN-RRB-2014-020), the replacement of the
Service Quarter Panels (SQP) of the Pixel detector, as well the completion of the
TDAQ system for Full Design Luminosity conditions have been completed very
successfully already last year.
The Insertable B-Layer (IBL) has now also been installed very successfully, in
early May this year. Once all the services were connected and commissioned, insitu tests showed that all Front-End chips were working and 99.9% of the
channels were operational, with good noise performance as expected. The
commissioning efforts now ongoing for both the IBL and Pixel detectors aim to
fully integrate them into a powerful 4-layer pixel detector system in the center of
ATLAS, which will be a key for excellent physics performance, with improved btagging capabilities, in Run 2 and Run 3.
Table 1 shows the final CORE payments made by Funding Agencies for the IBL
in 2014 (unchanged since April 2014). Also shown are the 0.23 MCHF additional
payments beyond the scope of the IBL MoU, which had become necessary for reCERN-RRB-2014-070
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work and additional spares after the observation of wire bond corrosion in 2013.
ATLAS is very grateful to the Funding Agencies for having provided these extra
resources.
Very good progress has also been made on the consolidation of the Forward
Detectors ALFA and LUCID. The ALFA Roman Pots have been modified to
reduce the beam-induced heating observed in Run 1. Their re-installation is now
almost complete. The outer stations have been located in new positions to
improve resolution. The mechanics and services for the new LUCID detector
have also been installed and are ready to receive the new photomultipliers, whose
quartz windows serve as Cherenkov medium. The extra contributions from
Funding Agencies beyond M&O-B, recognized in Table 1, are highly appreciated.
A funding request for the refurbishment of the ZDC (Zero-Degree Calorimeter),
needed for the Heavy Ion physics programme, is currently pending.
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FDL Contributions to the ATLAS Detector during 2014
by Funding Agency
(Payments, in kCHF)
Funding
Agency
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China NSFC+MSTC
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France IN2P3
France CEA
Georgia
Germany BMBF
Germany DESY
Germany MPI
Greece
Israel
Italy
Japan
Morocco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
JINR
Serbia
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taipei
Turkey
United Kingdom
US DOE+NSF
CERN
Forward Detectors
ALFA
LUCID
ZDC
IBL
nominal additional
SQP
Trigger
/DAQ
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
27
62
0
0
42
0
0
0
0
89
0
0
8
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
121
267
0
0
4
117
135
27
40
22
42
15
35
39
8
121
220
47
88
100
4
29
35
0
from deferrals
total sub-detector
total
27
136
0
483
226
0
0
872
0
in addition in M&O-B
in addition in M&O-A
795
795
Table 1
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