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Coordination teams are establishing precise phase tracking to ensure global contributions fit together seamlessly in the underground cavern.
"It is an ambitious and deeply complex programme that demands an all-hands-on-deck effort from our entire collaboration, and thousands of ATLAS members worldwide have been engaged in these activities," said Benedetto Gorini, ATLAS Upgrade Coordinator.
Technical coordinators compared the current engineering campaign to carefully dismantling and reconstructing a complex ship inside a narrow bottle.
"Our upgrade projects have been underway for several years, advancing steadily from design and prototyping into large-scale production and global integration.
We are now entering a critical phase: finalising construction and preparing these systems for installation in the ATLAS experiment," Gorini said.
Teams are prioritizing rigid timelines to guarantee that the upgraded experimental systems are fully prepared when particle beams return.
"Every phase of this engineering effort must be timed to perfection," said Martin Aleksa, ATLAS Technical Coordinator.
Operations personnel confirmed that high data-taking efficiency during recent runs provided a rich dataset to sustain theoretical physics research for years.
"We are coordinating teams from around the world, each with their own schedules and responsibilities, while ensuring access to the detector and protecting the delicate systems that remain in place.
These operations must be completed on time if we are to be ready when the beams return," Aleksa said.
The accumulated data from recent years will double the statistical power available to scientists investigating rare physical phenomena.
