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Building ATLAS: A 20+ Year Effort

Thomas Johnson (left) and other members of Berkeley Lab's ATLAS project engineering team assemble the carbon fiber support tube for the ATLAS Pixel Detector (April 2004).

Building ATLAS: A dedicated partnership

The ATLAS Pixel Support Tube builders and fabricators, photographed next to the Pixel Support Tube, in the Engineering Division's Mechanical Fabrication Shops (April 2026).

Assembling the Iris prototype robot for Spec-S5

An up close view of the prototype set up for the Iris fiber-positioning robot.

Meet Iris, Berkeley Lab's prototype fiber-positioning robot for Spec-S5