ATLAS prepares for upgrades

The ATLAS collaboration is preparing a series of upgrades to their detector for the coming long shutdown of the LHC

ATLAS prepares for upgrades

A technician conducts routine maintenance on the ATLAS detector during a technical stop last year (Image: CERN)

The ATLAS collaboration is preparing a series of upgrades to their detector for the coming long shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2013-2014. As well as routine maintenance, a new layer will be added to one of the tracking detectors at the heart of ATLAS, and changes to the data acquisition system will give physicists more precise spatial information about signals in the detector.

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