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ATLAS Muon Management General Issues

Chamber Construction Issues

Modified 27 Nov 2002 by Steven Goldfarb

• Cracks in brass gas tubelets
  • change to stainless steel whenever possible
  • check chambers already made, using epoxy
  • evaluate overall costs
  • look into treating some brass tubes
• Service integration in the chambers
  • use H8 to perform first integration test
• Gluing of alignment platform
  • Need to understand what went wrong, how to improve procedure
• Positioning of alignment platforms
  • need procedure to calibrate or cross-check

Chamber Completion Issues

Modified 27 Nov 2002 by Steven Goldfarb

• Known difficulties in some of the groups
  • Lack of funding for Greek institutes (~1MCHF)
  • Lack of funding for additional manpower to complete RPC chambers on time
  • Lack of funding for Chinese institutes (~500kUSD)
  • Slow production rate of large TGC chambers at Weizmann