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LHC Milestones

LHC Milestones

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year 2007

2007

OCTOBER

ATLAS celebrates the installation of the last of the 'big wheels', its end-cap muon chambers.

The end-caps of the ATLAS muon spectrometer are formed from eight 'big wheels', each measuring 25 metres in diameter and weighing between 40 and 50 tonnes.

Group photo taken during the event celebrating the complition of the installation of all sector of the ATLAS Big Wheel in the cavern

OCTOBER

A remote operations centre for the LHC and CMS, located at the American laboratory Fermilab, is inaugurated online from the CMS cavern.

In the cavern of the CMS experiment
LHCb installs its precision silicon detector, the VELO

OCTOBER

The VELO tracker, the most fragile detector of LHCb, is successfully installed in the heart of the experiment.

 
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