A low temperature clean environment was designed for testing the ATLAS CCD modules. The workshop has built the complete facility in the heavy lab within the Denis Wilkinson Building. Amongst it's many features are the anti-vibration air platforms for locating the ATLAS barrels on during the installation of the modules. This is done by the ATLAS robot which was modified and developed by the workshop from an original Japanese design.
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| Clean room | Robot and test barrel |
For more information about the ATLAS project and cold room:
A small cryostat is installed on level 5 of the Denis Wilkinson building in Oxford. This is used for the testing and development of instruments before they are installed in the main experiment in Italy. This facility was designed by the Physics Design Office and manufactured by the workshop.
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| The cryostat head |
More information about CRESST can be found at:
Design Office CRESST page
Oxford CRESST page
CRESST Home Page
The workshop uses a BOY 15 S injection moulder to produce high precision plastic components. The examples below are parts designed for the alignment system of the ATLAS project.
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| Injection molding machine | FSI spider | FSI jewel mount |
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| FSI alignment Jewel |
The fibre optic quill is used to centre the ends of the fibres and then hold them in a fixed orientation after alignment. They are designed to fit inside the plastic jewels (see above) for the ATLAS alignment system and be fixed in place by a drop of glue.
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| Quill body | Quill end | Enlargement of fibre ends |
The Design Office ATLAS page also has some information on the quills and FSI alignment
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| The workshop contributed to the installation of the support structure of the acrylic sphere | Petals, fixtures and fittings machined and developed by the workshop for the 10,000 photomultiplyer reflecters |
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| CTD endplate to accomodate 42,000 wires. Oxford build and developed the system for positioning and tensioning all the wires | Zeus inner detector supported by a rotation jig, to allow the fitting of all the PCBs | Inner detector being installed. The yellow support structure was build by the workshop |