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LHC Milestones

LHC Milestones

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year 1998

1998

APRIL

Civil engineering work begins for the ATLAS experiment.

Projects include: the excavation of two shafts, the digging of two caverns –one of which is the largest in the world dug in molasse-type rock– and the construction of buildings on the surface.

View of LHC's Point 1 building site
Members of CERN management applaud a successful test of the first full-scale LHC dipole along with representative of the INFN and Ansaldo Energia

JUNE

The first prototype magnet with a 15 metre nominal length is tested successfully, reaching a magnetic field of 8.3 teslas, the operating field for the LHC.

 
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