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LHC Milestones

LHC Milestones

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year 2006

2006

MARCH

The gigantic CMS solenoid magnet is cooled to its operating temperature, ‑269°C.

Members of the CERN CMI group and Saclay standing in the CMS vacuum vessel

MARCH

The CMS tracker joins the experiment’s muon chambers, recording its first cosmic ray events.

Computer image of a cosmic ray traversing the many layers of silicon sensors

 
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