Integration of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) Strips Endcap is gathering momentum at Nikhef in the Netherlands. On 14 October, colleagues from Nikhef, DESY (Germany) and IFIC (Spain) came together to install the first service module in the endcap, bringing the detector one step closer to completion.

In the first week of October, ATLAS teams at SLAC successfully loaded detector modules onto the first production ring of the Inner Tracker (ITk) Pixel Inner System – marking an important step in the assembly of the experiment’s next-generation tracker.

A major milestone has been reached in the construction of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk), with the installation of the first nine production ‘petals’ of the ITk Strips Endcap at DESY in Germany.

CERN teams successfully complete the first major transport operation of LS3. A 77-tonne shielding component, known as the JFSU, moves from the surface hall above the ATLAS experiment to Building 191 on CERN’s main site.

After more than a decade of service, one of the LHC’s key components for guiding particle beams through the ATLAS experiment has been removed, making way for the High-Luminosity LHC era.

A major relocation campaign has been launched to dismantle one of the ATLAS experiment’s key computing systems and transport it from LHC Point 1 to its new home at LHC Point 8, the site of the LHCb experiment.