ATLAS gets its heart

The Semiconductor Tracker

1 November 2005

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After years of painstaking effort, the last of the 4 barrels of the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) have arrived at their new home at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) near Geneva in Switzerland. This barrel, assembled at Oxford University, will form part of the heart of the ATLAS detector and is shown here being thermally tested.

The SCT is a collaborative international project with UK physicists coming from research groups at: Birmingham, Cambridge, Glasgow, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Sheffield and University College London.

For further information see the PPARC press release

Image Credit: Copyright University of Oxford

Dr. Tony Weidberg
University of Oxford
Tel: 01865 273370
Email: t.weidberg1@physics.ox.ac.uk

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