As part of the LHC upgrade activities, the LHC Insertions Upgrade Working Group is mandated to develop conceptual and technical designs of the new layout of the inner triplets and other directly associated equipment in the ATLAS and CMS high-luminosity insertions. The goal of this stage of the upgrade is to be able to focus the beams at the two IPs to a spot size  corresponding to b* of 0.25 m, and to reliably operate the LHC with a luminosity of about 2×10³⁴ cm^-2s^-1.

The new insertions will be based on the available magnet technology, in particular on the use of Nb-Ti superconducting cables produced for the LHC, and will respect the present interfaces with the two experiments, the available cryogenic cooling capacity and other infrastructure in IR1 and IR5.

The Working Group will report to the overall Project Leader for the LHC Upgrade Activities and will inform regularly the management of the AB and AT Departments. The final results of the studies will be summarized in the Conceptual and Technical Design Reports, to be issued in 2008 and 2009. The reports will contain the final proposal with the planning and costs.