On 6 July the vehicle with the first nine of 84 muon chambers made at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (JINR DLNP) for the ATLAS experiment left Building 5 of DLNP and set out on its long journey to Geneva.
Having begun in 2000 within the framework of JINR’s participation in the construction of the muon system for the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, this work is now entering its final stage. In the coming year all the remaining muon chambers will be assembled and tested at JINR and transported to CERN.
Once at CERN the muon chambers will be tested again and put together with the “trigger” resistive plate chambers, which are being manufactured in Italian scientific centres. The complete assembly will then be given a final test before being installed in the ATLAS pit.
