2005
JANUARY
After being assembled at the end of 2004, ALICE’s dipole magnet for the muon spectrometer is tested successfully in the underground hall of the experiment.
FEBRUARY
The CMS cavern is inaugurated, marking the end of the civil engineering work for the LHC. This 53-metres long, 27-metres wide and 24-metres high hall is hidden 100 metres underground and required six years to build.