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Authors: Alexander Sharmazanashvili
Publisher: Proceedings of TMCE 2012, Edited by I. Horváth, A. Albers, M. Behrendt and Z. Rusák – Organizing Committee of TMCE 2012, ISBN
Year: May 7–11, 2012
Abstract
Nowadays High-Energy Physics research with it ambitious goals intensify pressure on engineering activity for designing and construction of unique scientific devices. Facilities for the physics experiments become more and more complex and it sets new engineering challenges for their design and construction. These trends to be founded in nowadays several high-energy physics projects – Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland; International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, Cadarache, France; Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany. One of the most complex among of them is the ATLAS experiment, part of Large Hadron Collider project. Science and engineers from several countries are collaborated in ATLAS experiment in order to build world largest and most complex scientific facility – ATLAS detector. ATLAS detector is 46 meter long and 25 meter diameter device situated on 100 meter underground Geneva, Switzerland and weighted 7’000 tones. ATLAS collaboration unifies 169 partners from 37 countries with 2’500 scientists and engineers. Thus from one side we have special tasks for
designing and construction and from other side distributed tasks between big amount of collaborative partners. Paper describes unique methodologies and approaches for creation of geometry model of full detector for the construction life cycle developed by groups of IT and mechanical engineers of ATLAS collaboration. Results of case studies are represented concerning to construction of ATLAS detector at European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
