Manufacturing and integration progress of the ATLAS barrel toroid magnet at CERN

ATLAS is one of the two experiments dedicated the search of the Higgs boson, which will be installed on the LHC ring at CERN in 2006. The ATLAS barrel toroid air-core magnet (BT) is 20 m in diameter and consists of 8 superconducting coils, each one 25 m long and 5 m wide. After several years of technological development, the major concepts have been proved in 1999/2000 during the construction of the B0 prototype; a technological model for BT. The delivery by several European industrial companies of all the major components for BT is nearly finished. The eight BT coils are now being integrated at CERN. The paper presents a general overview of the component manufacturing and integration progress. A special emphasis is put on the major component delivery (conductor, double pancake windings, aluminum coil casing and cryostat) together with a description of the two phases of the integration process: integration of the windings into their coil casings and integration of the cold mass into the vacuum vessel. The integration of the windings in their coil casings will be completed in October 2003. The closure of the first cryostat is planned for the end of the year. The start of the first cold test and the assembly in the cavern is foreseen for the beginning of 2004.