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 Overview
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 The Athena Detector at IP6 for Electron-Ion Collider experiment.
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 Getting Started
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+You will  likely want to use this repository along with the IP6 repository:
+```bash
+git clone https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/EIC/detectors/athena.git
+git clone https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/EIC/detectors/ip6.git
+ln -s ../ip6/ip6 athena/ip6
+```
+
 ### Adding/changing detector geometry
 
 Hint: **Use the CI/CD pipelines**.