QN Postings

Bob and Tom had to depart on Wednesday, so I (Kris) had a bit of time on my own. Michael Barnett arranged a covert tour of building 180 which houses a number of components of ATLAS under assembly. Once again, the size of this detector is ENORMOUS. I really didn't grasp that until I saw the detector in the cavern and then the pieces in bldg 180. We saw muon detector panels in various stages of construction. Note the size of just ONE of the panels compared to the size of our intrepid PI, Michael.

We also snuck into an area where they were working on the endcaps for the toroid magnets. Again, the size was amazing.