Occasional Musings of a Particle Physicist

Visiting the ATLAS Detector » Main Detector

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Visible are the toroid magnets and calorimeter endcap.

Visible are the toroid magnets and calorimeter endcap.

The gold chambers detect muons, the silver bar is the proton beam pipe.
The red area is where the protons enter the detector just before colliding.

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