The Phase-2 Upgrade of the Silicon Strip Tracker of the ATLAS experiment

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performs extremely well in operation. About 26 fb-1 of data have been collected at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV in 2011 and at 8 TeV in 2012. Meanwhile, a phased upgrade of the LHC is planned and in about ten years from now the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is foreseen. By luminosity levelling and a ten times higher LHC design luminosity the delivery of about 3000 fb-1 is envisaged. To cope with the severe radiation dose and high particle rates, an upgrade of several detector components of the ATLAS experiment is required. The inner detector and transition radiation tracker will be replaced by an all silicon tracking detector. The report focuses on the Phase-2 upgrade of the ATLAS silicon strip detector. It gives an overview of the concept and highlight technology choices for the upgrade strip tracker. The developments towards low mass and modular double-sided structures for the barrel and forward region are discussed. The current status of prototyping, assembly procedures and mechanical and electrical results of the prototyps, so-called stavelets and petalets is presented.