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LHC Milestones

LHC Milestones

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year 2007

2007

FEBRUARY

The TPC is being lowered into the ALICE experimental cavern with extreme care.

The ALICE time projection chamber is transported to the experimental cavern.

The gap between the structure and the shaft wall is only 10 centimetres!

FEBRUARY

The largest section of the CMS detector weighing as much as 5 jumbo jets (1920 tonnes) makes its dramatic descent into the experiment's cavern.

This marks the halfway point of the detector lowering process for the experiment.

The central section of the CMS detector during its dramatic 10 hour descent underground.

 

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