1. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 1 ATLAS SCT Builders Inc. 2005 Annual Report Mike Tyndel (Group leader & SCT Project Leader) –Richard Apsimon (@CERN) –Martin Gibson –Stephen Haywood –Jeff Bizzell –Peter Phillips (@CERN/commuting) –Richard Holt –Steve McMahon (@CERN) & –Lewis Batchelor (@CERN) –Adlene Hicheur –Bill Murray report –Giulio Villani in Feb 06 –Marc Weber –Norman McCubbin –John Hart –Steve Dallison

2. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 2 CV M. Tyndel ( ….. 1972 – 2005 ….) “the Rutherford trail” First degree in NZ (birthplace of Ernest Rutherford) –“Search for quarks in cosmic rays” PhD in Rutherford building, Cambridge (1894-1898; 1919-1937) –“Properties of the K 0 meson using 2m bubble chamber” Post-doc at Rutherford Laboratory –“Neutrino physics using bubble chambers” Technical adventures at RAL and CERN –Upgrade external Muon system for BEBC –Small diversion into solar neutrinos –Calorimetry for DELPHI –b-tagging studies & design & development of first collider vertex detector –ATLAS SCT –Electronics (DSM) and pixel development (MAPs) …. & then the ‘leader’ phase –Project leader DELPHI Micro-vertex CERN –Group leader RAL tracking –Project leader ATLAS SCT tracker

3. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 3 Point 1 activities and perspectives Marzio Nessi ATLAS plenary 2 nd October 2004 SCT ATLAS LHC @ CERN

4. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 4 Activities of the ATLAS tracking group Past (1992 - ) –Design of the ATLAS SCT –Established the CCLRC clean room facility in R12 –Assembled & tested >700 silicon modules & >900 hybrids –Designed & built support structures & cooling –Assembled & tested Optical links & power tapes –Engineering (~30 EID people involved) Present (2005) –Integrating SCT into ATLAS –Installing services & getting SCT ready for physics –Preparing Readout & DAQ Future (2006 – ) –Commissioning & data-taking –Physics –Preparing an Upgraded tracker for 2015 10x more channels 2015 2007 Up to 1000 tracks 1 billion collisions/sec 10 billion collisions/sec

5. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 5 Pictures of ATLAS

6. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 6 Tracking in ATLAS Barrel = 4 Carbon cylinders tiled with silicon detector modules B6 2 Endcaps = 9 Carbon discs tiled with silicon detector modules D5 SCT = Silicon tracker; a device to measure tracks precisely (~20  m)

7. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 7 Gluing sensors Hybrid Mounting Sensor Alignment Module in Test Box A silicon module is: 4 silicon detectors 1536 particle detecting strips & readout amplifiers

8. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 8 Assembly steps at RAL EngineeringStructures & cooling Optolinks and powerAssembly

9. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 9 Assembly steps at CERN the first barrel

10. ATLAS Tracker Group PPD Staff Talk 28/Nov/2005 10 Assembly steps at CERN the 3 rd barrel