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The High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will reach an approximate pile-up of 200
collisions per bunch crossing, ten times more than the current Large Hadron Collider. Beginning
operation in 2030, it will accumulate 3000 fb-1, increasing the chances of observing new processes
and allowing measurement of rare processes with higher precision. Moreover, the pile-up increase
means more particle production, causing higher radiation damage and detector occupancy conditions.
Therefore, the current tracking system in the ATLAS detector will be replaced by the new Inner
Tracker system (ITk). ITk is based on silicon detectors, composed of individual sensors and readout
electronics called modules. In particular, the ITk Strips subdetector is composed of two different
regions, the Barrel and the Endcap. The modules need services to work under the collaboration
requirements. To guarantee these services, the modules are glued into a local support structure, in
the Endcap’s case, the structures are called petals. In each petal, 12 modules are glued, 6 per petal’s
side. The sensors are individually attached to the petal; this process, known as loading, is composed
of several steps. The first one is to prepare the petal components. Then, the components are attached
to form a petal. Finally, the petal goes through a quality control process. This poster aims to show
the loading process starting from the individual components until a petal passes the quality control
and is delivered to the integration site.
