Panoramic views of LHC

The links below are to composite images (created by Peter McCready - www.petermccready.com) that give you 360 degree views around viewpoints at the LHC, CERN. The 'points' are locations on the 27km LHC tunnel; they are marked on this diagram of the LHC site.

(You can pan, tilt and zoom these pictures.)

The LHC collider:

Commissioning the LHC. A chamber close to Point 1.

Checking an interconnection between dipole and quadrupole superconducting magnets on the LHC, close to Point 1.

The ALICE detector:

Installing the 'heart' of ALICE, the Inner Tracking System and the Time Projection Chamber. 

Commissioning ALICE in the experimental cavern at Point 2.

The ATLAS detector:

Commissioning the ATLAS detector in the experiment cavern at Point 1.

The CMS detector:

Commissioning the CMS experiment in the experiment cavern at Point 5. Viewpoint 1, viewpoint 2.

The silicon strip tracker, which lies close to the centre of CMS, being commissioned before assembly into the detector.

CMS detector commissioning in the surface hall at Point 5. This hall is now (13/08/08) empty as all of CMS has been lowered underground and assembled.

Outside the CMS surface hall at Point 5.