CMS Construction Progress
Watch part of CMS at CERN weighing >2,000 tons being lowered into position Feb 28 07
Eight Purdue faculty, and many seniors scientists, engineers, post docs, technicians, graduate students and undergraduate students at Purdue have spent many years constructing parts of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland.
This week will see one of the most eagerly anticipated and most challenging events in the history of the experiment: the lowering of the central barrel wheel of CMS, known as YB0. Weighing nearly 2000 tons (more than 5 Boeing 747 aircraft!) and containing the superconducting solenoid it is the heaviest and largest single piece of CMS. Lowering should start at around 6am on 28th February Geneva time (EST-6 hrs) and take about 10 hours.
You can see pictures of the progress via the CMS webcam at:
http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/outreach/cmseye/index.html.
-Ian Shipsey
Professor of Physics
