On November 30, 2009, CERN restarted the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This gallery offers a look at five of the LHC's six experiments: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and TOTEM.
Here's a rendering of the ALICE detector.
Size: 26 m long, 16 m high, 16 m wide
Weight: 10 000 tonnes
Design: central barrel plus single arm forward muon spectrometer
Location: St Genis-Pouilly, France.
Image credit: CERN
For more information, read my Geekend post about the LHC.
Images: Restarting the Large Hadron Collider
by Wally Bahny | December 28, 2009, 5:17pm PST | Image 1 of 11
ALICE
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Wally currently works for a medium-size healthcare company in southeast and central Michigan providing network administration and end user support.
