The Micromegas chambers for the ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade

The ATLAS collaboration at the LHC has chosen the resistive Micromegas (MM) technology, along with the small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC), for the high luminosity upgrade of the first muon station in the high-rapidity region, the so called New Small Wheel (NSW) project. After the R&D, design and prototyping phase, the first series production Micromegas quadruplets are being constructed at the involved construction sites in France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Greece. At CERN, the final validation and the integration of the modules in Sectors are in progress. These are big steps forward for the installation of the NSW foreseen for the LHC long shutdown in 2019 and 2020. The construction of the four types of large size quadruplets, all having trapezoidal shapes with surface areas between 2 and 3 m(2), will be reviewed. Achieving the requirements for these detectors has proven to be even more challenging than expected, when scaling from the small prototypes to large dimensions. We will describe the encountered problems, to a large extent common to other micro-pattern gaseous detectors, and the adopted solutions. Final quality assessment of the High-Voltage stability of the modules, with and without irradiation, will be presented together with the most relevant steps and results.